What Is The Best Bike For Adventure Riding & Bikepacking? | GMBN Adventure Week

What is the best mountain bike for bike packing and adventuring? Is it a fast cross country bike? A relaxed ride on a fat bike? Assisted adventuring with an E Bike? Or the do it all trail bike? Watch now to find out!

Which is your bikepacking bike of choice?

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[gmbn]

Which is your bikepacking bike of choice?

[kokosokosskoko]

Best bike for bike packing is the one that you have...

[chiccorocker]

Solid conclusion to the question "what bike do you need for adventure riding?": a bike. Two wheels, handle bar, pedals, optionally some suspension to make it more comfy, good off road tyres... and a lot will to pedal :D

[ceecrb]

Answer: the one and only bike we own as that's what 99% of us have.

[jedcaranguian]

Gmbn fan all the way from philippines 🇵🇭. I'm an aspiring dh racer here in my country, and I learn a lot from this channel, MABUHAY GMBN...

[jaytothesun]

I was waiting for Martin Ashton to pop up at the end and say that his 4 wheel electric bike trumps them all as the best bike for adventures. 😆

[shaun]

sold the gravel bike and bought a heavily discounted XC bike and I have no regrets, comfortable and safe over a much broader range of terrain than a drop bar bike, confident across 70-100k rides.

[DanuelNuel]

Definitely XC - light and fast. E-bike? Where you will charge it in the wilderness?

[gergoolle]

Gravel bike has its place. Personally I think its XC or gravel for bikepacking.

[jonm]

My vote for 29er hardtail XC bike. I'm lucky enough to have a 2020 Voodoo Bizango Carbon, 1x12, with upgraded Rockshox Judy Gold forks with remote lockout and a 150mm dropper. Nice and light with a springy frame that seems to soak up bumps amazingly well for a hardtail. Super lucky to get it early in lockdown before everywhere sold out. Done a few 50km+ cross country rides on it so far and it's been great.

[davidcawthorne]

More stuff like this. Super practical advise. Simple n straightforward. For us normal 61 year old adventure riders. I am near Peak District not far from Sheffield. More stuff like this. Fabulous.

[Jay-qqso]

Unfortunately for us poorer folk we have to pedal heavy bikes as these bikes are ways too expensive to afford 😔

[MrAimMDMA]

how do you charge the e-bikes on a 4 day adventure?

[danpetrea]

I was expecting a GCN presenter to appear and mix things up a bit

[ModifiedNmax]

I agree with Blake Fat bike is the best bike for adv.

[BartoszRogowski]

Thank you for adventure week! I'm looking forward to all the videos!

[Ureyeuh]

Scott Spark full suspension.
Twin lock system to lock the suspension on then flat, halfway for the gravel, opened entirely for the descents. Affordable, capable, and awesome.

[timlubbers]

This really depends on where you are going...I did the continental divide (Canada to mexico) on an e-bike and had a couple of times where power was an issue, but pushed the bike alot in the super sandy south (with 2.8" tires), last year I did it with a fat tire (4.5" tires) and the sand in the south was nothing, but was pushing it up steep climbs in the northern Rockies...
One note though is the divide ride is about 30-35 days of straight riding...

[davidcawthorne]

I have watched a good number of your videos This was the one that actually got me to subscribe to your channel. ❤😊

[lwittrock]

Love the different perspectives from all the presenters!!