How to Bikeraft - 7 Tips Learned the Hard Way

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6 жыл бұрын

What is "bike-rafting"? Our video details this burgeoning form of wilderness transport. It is a system that combines mountain biking, pack rafting, and backpacking to give ultimate mobility on water and land. Here we follow Colin Arisman and the Wild Confluence crew on a 400KM bike-rafting expedition through the British Columbian wilds.
Read our full trip report: gearjunkie.com/bike-trail-whi...
Pedal, paddle, pack, repeat. Few activities will help you navigate the most remote wilderness more swiftly than bikerafting. But how exactly does it work? Here are 7 tips to get you in the game.

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@stopcran 4 жыл бұрын

8. Try packrafting and bike trips separately first.

@DylanLandro 2 ай бұрын

Why?

@swinada Жыл бұрын

I was watching your video thinking to myself "this scenery looks very familiar" So I went and read your trip report. Now I now why it looks familiar. in 1992 my wife and I had a floatplane drop us off at Tuaton Lake at the very beginning of Stikine River. We had a inflatable canoe and paddled all the way down to the highway crossing. We also hiked along the railroad on the Spatsizi plateau. Good memories. Me and a friend once tried to follow the old railroad track with motorbikes to see if we could make it all the way to down to Stuart Lake but we had to turn around due to very rainy and muddy conditions. Maybe we need to try this again but with bicycles and pack rafts.

@AydinProductionsLtd 3 жыл бұрын

Nice work ! Thanks for the tips

@stephankorneffel3269 6 жыл бұрын

Hey guys rom wild confluence, I like your videos very much. The best and most inspiring is the "listen to the river" video. next year we will do a packraft trip in the Yukon territory and we take this video as a master piece to film and cut our project. Very kind regards from Germany. Stephan

@marcelo6446 4 жыл бұрын

Conseguiu?

@Tooflower 5 жыл бұрын

I'm an intermediate ww kayaker and rafter, and I've wanted to give this a try. My main concern is the realistic feasibility of carrying a bike on the bow of one's boat, and still being able to maneuver safely in rough water. It seems like it would be very challenging to pull that off in anything above III-/II rapids. I'm also a little alarmed at how the majority of whitewater packrafts on the market are single chambered. That just seems very vulnerable to me, having had to patch my raft and IK on expeditions in the past.

@extremekidproductions7859 4 жыл бұрын

Check out Deane Parker Adventure Channel. We have worked on some adventure videos with some pretty rough water for packrafting + he is pretty open to answering questions.

@zolten13 5 жыл бұрын

Очень круто , ребята , вы молодцы!

@mswarrior932 Жыл бұрын

I'm getting a kokopelli hornet light packraft only weighs 5.2 lb and can carry 300 I only weigh 145 so I guess I can carry all kinds of gear I'll bring a wood stove and the kitchen sink!! LOL safe bike rafting my friend!!! 😁

@lvjacy1835 2 жыл бұрын

Cool

@KarlRubens 6 жыл бұрын

Crazy, but cool. :D

@christophertomlinson6219 4 жыл бұрын

What bag is that khaki color waterproof duffle? Looks cool...

@jamesseely1163 2 жыл бұрын

How do you keep your suspension dry?

@mazditzo 6 жыл бұрын

that bike alone cost a lot, :)

@Hindukushsailing 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing haha. 17,000 grand and some ambition and your ready to go.

@DylanLandro 2 ай бұрын

What is the brown duffel type bag on the back of the packraft? Is it a dry bag?

@hoser7706 Ай бұрын

How did you manage to keep food so light for this trip? For the trip duration your frsme bags do not look huge. Was it all panniers?

@vladislavvelchev 13 күн бұрын

Could you please let me know how long padle using?

@johnkenny694 5 жыл бұрын

What raft are you using? Rogue lite with TIZIP or what.

@JokersSti 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like an Alpacka Raft

@LandaCleta Жыл бұрын

En el minuto 1:07 la traducción automática al español es media confusa xD jajajsjaja, ¿colas duras transexuales de 29 pulgadas?

@dizzzy69 Жыл бұрын

trannies quiere decir Ibis transaxle o sea, que va con el tubo fino para fijar las ruedas a la "fork", entiendes?, 29ers es el tamaño grande de las ruedas (26 o 27.5 o 29 "pulgadas" son inches, el tamaño american, que no usan el sistema metrico! vaya dichos americanos!