Where to place sleeping bag, tent and sleep roll

Kerry Nikolaise

I am thinking of doing some light weekend touring and will
have a rear rack and panniers. Where is the best location
to place the sleeping bag, tent and bedroll? How are these
cinched down, and what is the best way to protect them
from the rain?

Kerry

Peter

Kerry Nikolaisen wrote:

> I am thinking of doing some light weekend touring and will
> have a rear rack and panniers. Where is the best location
> to place the sleeping bag, tent and bedroll?

I put mine inside one of the panniers.

Tbgibb

In article <10drnu4gj77bqc7@corp.supernews.com>, "Kerry Nikolaisen" <f o u r n
i k s @ c h a r t e r . n e t> writes:

>I am thinking of doing some light weekend touring and will
>have a rear rack and panniers. Where is the best location
>to place the sleeping bag, tent and bedroll?

A down sleeping bag goes very nicely in an Ortlieb pannier.

> How are these cinched down, and what is the best way to
> protect them from the rain?

Straps are prefered due to the tendancy of bungee cord hooks
to foul spokes. If you are doing both on top of the rear
rack they'll certainly need to be across the rack
(sideways).

Rain protection for the sleeping bag would be a dry
bag (Ortlieb panniers, especially the backrollers, are
dry bags), the tent will get along with just it's own
stuff sack.

Tom Gibb <TBGibb@aol.com

Chuck Anderson

Kerry Nikolaisen wrote:

>I am thinking of doing some light weekend touring and will
>have a rear rack and panniers. Where is the best location
>to place the sleeping bag, tent and bedroll? How are these
>cinched down, and what is the best way to protect them from
>the rain?
>
>Kerry
>
>

Bungee cords and heavy duty garbage bags have always
worked for me.

I put my sleeping pad and tent poles right on the rack
Front to back (not across). My tent is strapped over one
pannier and my sleeping bag over the other - garbage bags
at the ready.

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cycletourist.com

Per LöWdin

> I am thinking of doing some light weekend touring and will
> have a rear
rack
> and panniers. Where is the best location to place the
> sleeping bag, tent and bedroll? How are these cinched
> down, and what is the best way to protect them from
> the rain?

We usually have a water proof bag, the type used for
kayaking on top
http://www.lowdin.nu/MTB/sea02/sea020114.jpg for the
sleeping bag and the matress, tuck in the matress
first so it expands along the walls of the bag then
push the sleeping bag in. The tent usually goes in one
of the panniers.

Per http://lowdin.nu

Chuck Anderson

Kerry Nikolaisen wrote:

>I am thinking of doing some light weekend touring and will
>have a rear rack and panniers. Where is the best location
>to place the sleeping bag, tent and bedroll? How are these
>cinched down, and what is the best way to protect them from
>the rain?
>
>Kerry
>
>

Bungee cords and heavy duty garbage bags have always
worked for me.

I put my sleeping pad and tent poles right on the rack
Front to back (not across). My tent is strapped over one
pannier and my sleeping bag over the other - garbage bags
at the ready.

--
cycletourist.com

Dave F

Hi Kerry:

I suppose a lot depends on the gear you have. I put my tent
in one rear pannier, and my sleeping bag and camp pillow in
the other, and still have room for quite a lot of other
things. Garbage bags keep things dry. I put industrial
strength velcro on my self-inflating roll-up air mattress
(the velcro is about two inches wide, and runs the length of
my rear rack - used "Amazing Goop" to glue the velcro to the
bed roll, because the adhesive that comes with the velcro
doesn't hold). Between the velcro and bungee cords, the
mattress is *extremely* secure - you could pick up the
entire bike with
it. You just want to make sure the bungees holding the
air mattress are good and tight. I've certainly never
had any trouble with them coming off or getting
tangled in the spokes. I don't worry about the air
mattress getting wet - I usually have to wash the mud
off of it anyway.

My tent has fold-out shock-cord poles, so they fit in the
tent bag just fine.

Have fun - and let us know how your excursion goes!

Best Regards, Dave

"Kerry Nikolaisen" <f o u r n i k s @ c h a r t e r . n e t>
wrote in message news:10drnu4gj77bqc7@corp.supernews.com...
> I am thinking of doing some light weekend touring and will
> have a rear
rack
> and panniers. Where is the best location to place the
> sleeping bag, tent and bedroll? How are these cinched
> down, and what is the best way to protect them from
> the rain?
>
> Kerry

Sergio Servadio

I place tent and poles on the handle bar, parallel to it,
between the bar and the brake cables (old fashioned, no
inner routing), held in place by a couple of straps, leaving
just enough space for the hands to grip the bar and to reach
the brake levers.

Sergio Pisa

David Dermott

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, it was written:

> I am thinking of doing some light weekend touring and will
> have a rear rack and panniers. Where is the best location
> to place the sleeping bag, tent and bedroll? How are these
> cinched down, and what is the best way to protect them
> from the rain?
>
The advantages of putting tent and sleeping bag inside
the panniers are protection from rain and keeping load as
low as possible. I sometimes do this if I don't have much
else load.

But this takes up space for other stuff in my panniers.
Anyways, my tent and sleeping bag don't weigh much. So
usually I have them attached with bungee cords on top of
the rear rack, in water repellant stuff sacks. Plastic
bags (small garbage or grocery bags) can be used inside
the stuff sacks to make them completely water-proof.
Lately I have been rolling my Thermarest (TM) sleeping
pad around my sleeping bag which has kept it dry in
heavest rain.

Make sure the bungee hooks are well fastened. I've never
had a problem with the bungee hooks snagging my spokes,
but the lower hooks holding down the panniers have snagged
in the spokes. The hook and pannier straps have broken-
not the spokes!

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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada email:
dermott@ns.sympatico.ca WWW pages:
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/