Budget Friendly Bikepacking Gear from a Cheap Bastard 

Water: In the past year I have ditched plastic water bottles including medical grade Nalgene for wide mouth double wall stainless steel, the water tastes so much better. Contents will remain warm for 24 hr and cold for 12 yours. I have .5 liter and one-liter bottles to choose from depending on the water sources available. On the handlebars I have four grab bags that can each hold a 0.5 L or one liter bottle or not. Or anything else I want close at hand. In the triangle I can carry two one liter bottles in the new larger cages. Both being Old farts, and I think I'm a lot older fart, we doth carry similar gear and total weight. My cook system is older school, from the late 60"s. I use nesting Swiss Sig pots to choose from. 1-2-3-4 quart, depending on number in the group, type of trip and season. My Seva 123 stove is the same size as your IKIA utensil holder wood burner. I've used my Seva 123 at -20 F on winter cross country ski trips. A real butt kicker with a white gas fuel tank and no disposable canisters to deal with. Never found the need to use a water bottle to stay warm. My travel experiences are from -20 F to 120 F. My sleep system is based on the military system used by most army's including the USA and Canada called the MSS- Modular Sleep System, which I highly recommend. My sleeping pad is from the early 1970's Thermolite, inflatable with a foam core and unbelievably still holds air. It just won't die. My rear and front panniers are from the 1980's and still going strong. The are a rugged water resistant fabric with a 10 mil liner. I carry a tough canoe dry bag on top the rear pannier with my 22 inch width sleeping pad and rain gear, tent or tarp and poles. The dry bag becomes my tent entry mat. Sorry for mixing measurements. Some of my equipment is in liters and some in inches.

I took a nalgene juat like that one on a week long hike. Did the boiling water trixk every day, slept like a baby. Huge comfort hack. Everything was wet after days of non stop rain. Impossible to make a fire. The warm water bottle gave me peace of mind that I would never risk hypothermia.

Very interesting and I really like those front bags attached to the front fork👌

As a fellow cheap bastard, thank you for this video. Its real discouraging seeing all of these multi thousand dollar setups as someone trying to get into this sport. I just did my first trip last week and all I had was a dry bag strapped to the handlebar and a 35L backpack attached to my rear rack. It served me well, but looking for something a little less fiddly and this looks perfect.

One wall stainless steel bottle could be used both for boiling water and storing it, and for warming up sleeping bag so it may be worth to changing the gasket. I'm definietely gonna get bottle for that purpose when I gonna have chance. Great in depth video 👌

I have an older dog and she learns new things all the time. So you can in fact teach an old dog new tricks......what you actually mean is you are either too stubborn or too lazy or both to change:)

You just showed me my new ccoking kit, since I already got one of those IKEA utensil baskets and can fit it inside a new cargo cage bag on the fork. Love how it all fits together and that I can get the pot and mug online. One question though: The twig stove's gotta get awful black with soot. How do you get it clean before packing it all together?

When he said "are we on?" I thought it was the "open na noor" guy.

Like the old joke goes: two Chinooks walk into a bar... (fill in the blank)😂

What is weight of ikea pot stove ? Didn't find answer on video.

which bag do you keep the quaaludes in?

RockBros sells an Ortlieb knock off.

Would of been nice if there were time stamps so i can skip back and fourth to sections

Good mess of stuff!

Great review! You know-doesn’t look like they have those bags anymore on either version of the Amazonian Shopping Network. Lots of Rock bros. And rhinowalk. Probably same company using different badging. I need a set of the rear ones. Hope to see you touring your ass off this summer!

For those who know, The answer is always TWO Chinooks 😂🤘

I think you might have been born before old school

I don't have an uncle named Bob. I feel left out, cheated.

You must stop the drugs and alcohol.