6 New Bikepacking Bikes You NEED To Know About!

Here are my handpicked bunch of recent bikepacking bike developments that you need to know about. 🚀

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[Cyclingabout]

Sooo.... what innovative bikepacking bike do you think deserves more air time? 🤔🤔🤔

[kymcopyriot]

While the nerd in me loves the innovative and unusual stuff, it’s the entry level stuff I want to see more of! As a rule, there’s not a lot of money out there at the moment. Even my AU$1600 Merida Silex was a stretch and most people I know hesitate to go above $2K on a new bike. So, just to be contrary...more of the value bikes please! Meanwhile...love your work.

[spudaei]

Hey! That’s my bike @8:40! Looking forward to finally get a chance to load it up this next week for a couple days out on eastern Washington “gravel”! It’s already proved to be an extremely stable and capable rig. Best part about these MaHall expedition gravel builds is that you can customize the frame to your specific needs for the terrain you ride.

[konny.]

Fairlight is my favourite bike brand, really nice bikes. One day I'll have a Faran hanging on my wall and rolling me around the world.

[twdegr]

Really enjoy your technical view and explanation and enthusiasm for the thing.
Done a year myself and was thinking of this stuff whole the time. You have really nailed it.

[MC]

Alee, I'd love to see more wacky bikepacking bikes like the Titanosaur on this channel. Those are beyond cool! Great video!

[brettfoster]

The prospector & gear hub with a suspension fork would be a winner for me. With 2 sets of wheels. . Thanks all the bikes were excellent.

[jessetamez]

Alee, what do you know about the priority 600X? Thank you for all of the content.

[nowhereknowhow]

Haven't seen much from you in awhile. Hopefully that is a good sign your doing well and enjoying life. Just wanted to say you inspired us(along with a bike touring friend) to chase a double dream of sorts. We wanted to buy a sailboat (combined with bikes) and so we bike toured the pacific northwest of the united states during the pandemic in the middle of winter. It was extremely difficult psychologically just being wet, cold, in the wind, and completely isolated, no coffee shops to stop in, no places to warm up, it was like a wilderness trek thru a populated place. We do have extensive biking and camping experience in Minnesota in the winter but being wet is a whole other matter indeed.

We set off and biked almost to the Canadian boarder, then we met an Argentinian whom had an off shore cruiser he couldn't keep. Now we are working on her and getting her ready to take us to the dustra.

[robdogracing]

Great list. If I had to add a couple to the mix. Priority bikes makes an adventure bike packing hard tail bike 600x with a planetary gear set and belt drive. Also salsa released a single speed gravel race bike called the stormchaser designed for the muddy trail conditions. I think both can be great low maintenance bike packing bikes.

[jamesw]

Thank you! My 2020 Kenesis Tripster AT is fitted with Shimano 105 (11/32 cassette & 50/34 chainring). This is too high for off road climbing and your on-screen configuration summary for KHS bike has answered my dilemma! Great content and production!

[douglaschamorro]

Check out the Priority 600x. I would love to get your input on it.
Thx you Doug

[bramvranckx]

This channel has learned me a lot. I'm now more than ever convinced there is one bike that is suitable for everything I want to do with it; gravel rides, short ride to the city, bike packing and even a nice tour ride with road bike friends. But what do you think of electric bikes? My ideal bike is a bike with broad clearance for tires, gravel handlebars and geometry, Rohloff and belt driven, all of the packing possibilities with internal routing for dynamo etc, and I would have loved a electric motor in it too... best I can find for now is the Tout terrain with a Pendix aftermarket motor...

[christopherboudville]

I have just found a new interest in fat bikes. I have recently replaced a narrow wide 30T to drive a 11 to 28 gear cog. I will be converting my bike to a backpacking bike and hope the gears will work on steep uphill road climbs. I like your suggestions on this topic.

[dtuqrhb]

Priority 600X. I would love it if you did a review of this bike.

[JimKJeffries]

Thanks for you being you & sharing a great episode.

[igniaulfsborg]

Awesome, as always. Happy to pay for your work because it’s meaningful and not fluff.

[DIY-DaddyO]

I love these videos, even the old ones, to open my eyes to a variety of bike brands. Being a heavy rider, I like the idea of a low geared bike.

[briangottwalt]

Hi, Alee. I was really excited when I saw your information on the KHS Grit 440 in your recent update to the Buyer's Guide, so I messaged KHS. They are unaware of an 11x42 & stated the Grit 440 has a rear cassette of 11x34. Below is the message I sent to KHS. They responded that you must have got your information from a source with a typographical error. I was really hoping for that gearing, but maybe it will come one of these years from SRAM. Little chance Shimano will ever get gearing correct for bikepackers. Btw, just read your entire Bikepacking Bike Buyer's Guide for 2021 & loved it! As an avid cyclist for decades, I still learned plenty, especially when it comes to bike fitment! Thanks for putting out high quality information I haven't seen elsewhere! BG

Hello, KHS. I would like to buy the GRIT 440 Gravel bike that Aussie Alee Denham, author of The Bikepacking Bike Buyer's Guide for 2021 claims has a 48x32 crank chainrings & the Mullet rear cassette of 42x11. Alee just put out a youtube video updating his Buyer's Guide stating this information, but is it possible the bike is equipped with that gearing in Australia but not in the US? No bike parts company, including Shimano & SRAM or any bike manufacturing company have gearing options like Alee described on a stock bike, so I have my doubts. However, if you offer that version he describes, I want a KHS GRIT, & there will be thousands of others that feel the same way!!! What say you? Respectfully, BG

[jimebbage]

Fantastic channel with eloquent fact packed delivery ! No BS you're in Top Handful of Youtubers ! Cheers..