You may always zip the windows back if you require more privacy and cover. Additionally, you can gain more quiet time with two room dividers and boost the amount of space by dividing the tent into three distinct areas using one divider. The Explorer has the range for bikepacking through the mild hill country and unloaded rides through moderately steep terrain. But the approach to the Ozarks’ White Rock mountain wasn’t moderate. Feeling more sickly, I pushed the Explorer up a few miles of hills I’d ride up with most gravel bikes. My own personal beverage drama every summer has really pushed me to do this review. Instead, the limited range of the gearing helped offset the shifting stiffness by making smaller jumps between gears. The last 200 miles would detour along a mix of paved and harder-packed gravel roads closer to highways. Flats became a nonissue without larger jagged stones to bottom out the tires. So there you have it, when looking at just the ability to keep ice cold over a period of 6 days the Pelican has just slightly won, but we are talking about decimal points.