Your definition of bike-packing and bike touring at odds with the rest of the world.Bike-packing is generally accepted as being attaching all you kit to the frame of your bike, inside the frame, on top the cross bar, stuck in a bundle behind your saddle and on bags hung from your handlebars. The aim being not to increase the width of you bike so you can do some seriously narrow tracks and therefore you'd be on at least a hardtail mountain bike if not a full suspension jobbie. Bike touring is using a normal road bike with a rack on the back with panniers either side therefore increasing the width of the bike and meaning that you're unable to do the hardcore off road stuff that a bike-packing fan can do. That's not to say that bike tourers can't go off road but the width of the bike and the type of bike used means that they tend to go at a more sedate pace.
indeed and I’m suggesting that definition is driven by marketing to sell newer types of bags. In practical terms I don’t observe the difference you describe when I meet tourers or see them on Insta. If you want to carry a tent, cooking gear etc and travel for weeks that level of skimming down isn’t sustainable.
Your definition of bike-packing and bike touring at odds with the rest of the world.Bike-packing is generally accepted as being attaching all you kit to the frame of your bike, inside the frame, on top the cross bar, stuck in a bundle behind your saddle and on bags hung from your handlebars. The aim being not to increase the width of you bike so you can do some seriously narrow tracks and therefore you'd be on at least a hardtail mountain bike if not a full suspension jobbie. Bike touring is using a normal road bike with a rack on the back with panniers either side therefore increasing the width of the bike and meaning that you're unable to do the hardcore off road stuff that a bike-packing fan can do. That's not to say that bike tourers can't go off road but the width of the bike and the type of bike used means that they tend to go at a more sedate pace.
indeed and I’m suggesting that definition is driven by marketing to sell newer types of bags. In practical terms I don’t observe the difference you describe when I meet tourers or see them on Insta. If you want to carry a tent, cooking gear etc and travel for weeks that level of skimming down isn’t sustainable.