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The original was posted on /r/bicycletouring by /u/timonix on 2025-09-30 10:30:44+00:00.

I went out with a couple of friends for a 1000km trip. Packed with about 40kg of food, water and camp gear for wild camping. I had my $400 chinesium bike and my friends had some old steel children’s bikes. And everything went fine with no issues what’s so ever. No changing any tires, nothing broken, just some bug bites.

But looking through this sub it instead looks scary af. It seems like such a big disconnect between a couple of nice days outdoors and everything just falling apart ending up stranded in remote areas. Like what’s going on? How can a bike just break? That can’t be normal right