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Ultralight Hacks: Trailbrush Toothbrush Attaches to a Titanium Spoon

Raise your hand if you’ve ever cut down a toothbrush to save size or weight on a camping trip. Be it backpacking or a bike tour, this common hack was popularized by lore in these circles and passed down from lightweight traveler to newcomer for decades. Well, the Trailbrush ($7.95) ups the weight weenie ante. It pops into the handle of a Toaks titanium long-handle spoon, short-handle spoon, spork, or fork, multi-purposing the spoon into a toothbrush. Neat. They’ll even throw in a teeny airline tube of Colgate for ya.

Check it out, in stock at Zpacks.

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Rockgeist Microwave Panniers Now in Ultra PE 200 ALUULA Fabric

Rockgeist went right to work this year with an update to the original Porcelain Rocket-designed Microwave Panniers. Being a brand that’s focused on always producing the best possible, water-proof products, Rockgeist has now began making its Microwave Pannier drybags welded with an Ultra PE Fabric from ALUULA. The North Carolina-based maker upped the ante by including a Ultra 200 face for the holster bags themselve. This drops weight and adds a significant bump in abrasion resistance to this already bomber setup.

You can find these linked from the Rockgeist homepage in the drop down menu for the fabric selection. Retail is $335 for these upgraded bags.

Reportage By: Ryan Wilson

A Year with the Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo

Finding the right tent for a bike trip is always tricky. It’s all about striking the balance of size, weight, livability, storm-worthiness, and durability that fits you and your plans.

Before heading to Turkey, I knew I wanted to try to eliminate full-sized panniers from my setup, which meant leaving a few things back home and downsizing a few other pieces of gear to make that possible. The tent was one of the first items I looked at since my Tarptent Stratospire 2, while super bomber and massively spacious, is not the smallest option when packed, and probably a little overkill for this trip.

That’s when I landed on the Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo. On paper, at $250 (minus stakes, pole, and seam sealer) and sub-1kg all-in, the Lunar Solo ticked an awful lot of boxes in terms of size, space, and cost, so I gave it a shot. After a year and countless nights in the mountains of Turkey, the Andean Puna, and the forests of Michigan, I’ve come away impressed.