You can also find the original reasoning for the long biking days <a href="http://roguepriest.net/2012/09/06/push-days/&quot;here.

First off, scenes like the one above don’t come from an aggressive schedule. If a hill is steep enough long enough, I’ll have to get off and push the bike – period. That’s true whether I bike nine miles a day or ninety.

But, I understand your question. I have been pushing it, and doing long days.

I think that, for now, this is the way I like to travel. I enjoy hours on the road with only the wind for company. I also dislike the scramble that comes with arriving in a new town and not knowing where to stay. It could mean hours of work before I find out where I’ll stay and (if camping) get my nest set up.

So, instead of short jaunts here and there, I like to spend a few days in one place and then cover a bunch of miles all at once.

So I take it a portable tire pump isn’t included in your 50 pounds…