Was Building A Drop Bar Mountain Bike For Bikepacking a Bad Idea? Project Curly Gets Out There!

Will this mountain bike converted to drop bars be a success for bikepacking adventures or did ‪@oldguyandabike‬ just ruin a perfectly good MTB hardtail?

Have a watch and find out!

00:00 Intro
00:41 What I did to begin this
01:59 Racks and bags and such
08:58 Nuts and bolts and gears and such
11:29 But what about the handlebars?

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