27-year-old Casey Hyperlink is touring throughout Europe on a bicycle with an inflatable packraft connected to his rear rack. When he runs right into a highway, Casey packs up his bicycle, deflates his raft, and straps all of his earthly possessions onto the again of his bike. However when Casey reaches a river or lake, he can shortly inflate his packraft, pack his bicycle onto the small boat, and float away within the water.
For the final two years, Casey Hyperlink has been slowly making his approach throughout Europe on this method. Watch the video beneath to listen to Casey focus on his bike touring and packrafting expedition with TOURING-BICYCLE of Bicycle Touring Professional.
Casey Hyperlink met up with TOURING-BICYCLE of Bicycle Touring Professional in Sibiu, Romania, which is the place this video interview was performed. The video is a recording of a stay Web net occasion that passed off on Sunday, September 14th, 2014.
Particulars About Casey’s Boat & Bicycle:
Casey is touring with a an Explorer 42 packraft, made by an organization known as Alpacka. The raft is a two-person packraft designed for single-bladed canoe fashion paddling or for a single- individual carrying a big load (like a fully-loaded touring bike).
The Explorer 42 packraft that Casey is utilizing weights about 2.6 kg (5.7 lbs), however the seats add about 150 grams every, bringing the whole weight of the raft (minus the paddle, floatation system, and so on.) to about roughly 3.1 kg (6.8 lbs).
The paddle Casey is utilizing is a collapsible webbed paddle manufactured from fiberglass and carbon fiber. It’s a 4-piece paddle, which means the blades make two items and the pole itself splits into two items as effectively. The blade collapses to a packed width of solely 2.7 inches, so it’s a lot simpler to suit on a touring bike. The load is 1 kg. It really works finest in flat water – not wild water.
Lastly, Casey is utilizing using a Surly Lengthy Haul Trucker Deluxe with Ortlieb curler basic panniers and Tubus racks. The Deluxe mannequin of the Surly LHT touring bicycle comes with S&S couplers that enable Casey to separate his bicycle body in half, which isn’t solely helpful when packing his bike inside his packraft, but in addition when flying with the bicycle or touring with it on boats, buses or trains. When requested whether or not the S&S couplers on his touring bicycle had been vital for the kind of bikerafting expedition that he’s enterprise, Case replied by saying that, “Becoming the bike and equipment onto the packraft wouldn’t be possible with out the couplers.”
Necessary Bikerafting Hyperlinks & Data:
Highlights from the Bike Touring / Packrafting Video:
Use the data beneath to leap to the a part of the Casey Hyperlink bikerafting interview that pursuits you essentially the most.
Introduction – 00:01
Why use a packraft as a substitute of a kayak or a canoe? – 04:35
What sort of packraft are you utilizing? How a lot does your packraft weight? And the way a lot does a packraft value? – 07:30
How does a packraft differ from a budget, inflatable rafts you should purchase at shops like WalMart? – 09:00
What sort of packraft do it’s essential to do for a bikerafting expedition? – 10:30
How a lot does your touring bicycle weigh (with the packraft loaded on the again of it)? – 11:30
The place do you sleep if you find yourself touring along with your bike and raft? – 14:00
How do you get your boat by means of the locks on huge rivers? – 15:20
What was the most effective a part of your bikerafting journey in Europe? – 20:30
How lengthy have you ever been touring? – 24:20
How do you discover the money and time to journey by bike/boat for years on finish? – 25:15
What occurs if you happen to get a gap within the backside of your packraft? – 28:30
Do you want touring alone? Do you ever get lonely being by your self on a regular basis? – 36:00
What are your bike touring and packrafting plans for the long run? – 38:00
How has bicycle touring with a packraft modified the way in which you view world journey? – 39:20
What are the weirdest questions folks ask about your bikerafting journey? – 44:00
How a lot tenting do you do throughout your travels? – 45:30
What one tip would you give to somebody who desires to conduct a bikerafting expedition? – 47:30
If in case you have a query or remark for Casey Hyperlink about his bike touring, pack rafting or bikerafting expedition, the gear he makes use of, or the rest, please depart a remark beneath.
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