Ready for adventure? Win a bicycle top tube pack

So few of the bikes sold in Britain today come equipped as standard with basic features such as lights, mudguards and racks that it leaves many cyclists forced to buy these items as aftermarket accessories. For example, the top tube bag is the cycling equivalent of a car's glove compartment - a space that's perfect for storing odds and ends like your phone, a spare inner tube, small tools or a snack.

Easily held on to your frame by velcro tethers, the Birzman Packman is water repellent and abrasion resistant to ensure that your must-haves are kept safe and dry in all weathers.

The bag has 0.8 litres of storage with a further three external pockets suitable for a phone or wallet. The practicality of a top tube pack may give you a taste for adventure. Now reinvented as ‘bikepacking’ the business of setting off to ride and camp, taking with you only as much as you can carry, is as pure a cycling experience as you can have.

The excellent bikepacking.com describes ‘a synthesis of mountain biking and minimalist camping; it evokes the freedom of multi-day back-country hiking, with the range and thrill of riding a mountain bike. It’s about forging places less travelled, both near and afar, via single-track trails, gravel, and abandoned dirt roads, carrying only essential gear'.

Win a Birzman Packman Top Tube Pack

To be in with a chance of winning a Birzman Packman Top Tube Pack simply leave us a comment at the bottom of the page and we'll pick a name next week. Names of previous winners are published in our weekly newsletter.

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