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Bikerafting in Poland A Practical Guide to Your First Bike & Packraft Adventure

Name: Bikerafting in Poland. A Practical Guide to Your First Bike & Packraft Adventure
Brand: Stan Wody
Price: 9.99 EUR
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Your first bikerafting adventure? Do it in Poland. For everyone who has been thinking about bikerafting for a while, watching other people’s trips and wondering how to finally take the first step.

Now€9.99

From release day€14.99

Release date: 20 December 2026. Just in time to read it and get ready for a spring trip.

Buy the e-book for €9.99

PDF e-book, English edition. The file arrives by email on release day.

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Bikerafting in Poland

A Practical Guide to Your First Bike & Packraft Adventure

Want to start, but not sure where?

Bikerafting has been on your mind for a while. You browse packrafts, look at photos from rivers and think about where you could go. You know you’d like to try it. You just haven’t done it yet.

Maybe you don’t know which gear to choose. Maybe you’re not sure how to prepare your first trip. Or maybe you just feel you need to know a lot more first.

This handbook was written for exactly this stage: to sort out the first decisions and take you from being interested in bikerafting to your own trip.

Knowledge first. Then your own trip

You don’t need to know every river right away, own the best gear or have hundreds of kilometres on the water behind you. You need to know how to start and what to watch out for before you set off.

1 · GearYou know what you needInstead of buying random gear, you start by understanding what you’ll actually need.

photo: Nicholas Bullett (Unsplash)

2 · PreparationYou know how to prepareYou learn to read a route, check conditions and plan the day so you know what you’re signing up for.

photo: Marek Piwnicki (Pexels)

3 · The tripYou know where to goYou get specific loops, maps, practical information and tips for planning your first trip.

photo: Pavel Pjatakov (Unsplash)

What’s inside?

We’ve gathered in one place the information you need to stop just planning and start preparing your own trip.

20 loops combining a cycling leg with a paddling leg

Distance and time given separately for the bike and for the river

Put-in and take-out points, described so you can actually find them

A map of every loop

Portages, weirs and places where you have to get out

Bans and restrictions, with their legal basis and the date they were checked

The water level at which the river stops being navigable

How to strap the bike to the packraft and what to do if you capsize

Food and water for a full day outdoors

Camping and overnight stays on longer loops

Pre-trip checklist

Tips for planning your own loop

A book you’ll come back to whenever you need it

It’s meant to be useful when you’re actually planning a trip. That’s why the information on the route, put-in, portages, water level and logistics is gathered together for each loop.

ExampleLoop map

You see where you start, where you put in and which way you return.

Loop map on the Brda: put-in at Rytel, start and finish at Woziwoda

ExampleDay plan

Times, distances and the place where you swap the bike for the boat.

1 · WoziwodaStart. The packraft rides rolled up on the bike’s rack.
2 · By bike to RytelYou ride up the Brda valley towards Rytel.
3 · RytelYou unroll the packraft and strap the bike to its bow.
4 · The BrdaYou set off with the current through the middle of the Tuchola Forest. Here the Brda is narrow and winding.
5 · WoziwodaYou get out of the water exactly where the route began in the morning.

ExampleLogistics

Where the start is, where you get down to the water, what to do with the bike on the bank.

Start and finish: Woziwoda
Put-in: Rytel
Take-out: Woziwoda
Portages: none on this stretch
Watch out: fallen trees, narrow riffles
Difficulty: moderate

ExampleChecklist

One page to go through the evening before the trip.

Buoyancy aid
Paddle
Pump
Straps for the bike
Dry bags
Phone in a waterproof case
First aid kit
Change of clothes
Food for the whole day
Drinking water
Bike tools
Offline map
Headlamp
Power bank
Sunscreen
Hat

Who is this handbook for?

You don’t have to be an expert. This handbook is meant to help you exactly when
your first trip is still ahead of you.

A man in a buoyancy aid paddling a kayak

photo: Glib Albovsky (Unsplash)

You’re thinking about bikeraftingYou watch other people’s trips, check out gear and have wanted to try for a long time, but you don’t know how to start yet.

You’re ready to organise your first tripYou don’t need another batch of random tips. You want to know what to check and how to get ready for the road.

You already have a packraftYou want to stop paddling only where you already know the route. You want to start planning your own trips.

No packraft yet?

That doesn’t mean you have to put off your first trip. In Poland you can rent packrafts, and some of the loops can be done with a kayak rented locally, if the rental covers that stretch.

Each loop says which option is possible.

Everything you need to plan the day

The point isn’t to give you yet another list of tips. The point is that when you plan a specific trip, you don’t have to look for the key information in eight different places.

01Cycling route
02River
03Put-in point
04Take-out
05Portages
06Water level
07Bans on the stretch
08Return to the start

Karol, the creator of Stan Wody, in a kayak

So you know where you stand

My name is Karol and I run Stan Wody. I love trips to the other side of the world, but I feel just as much at home on a bike ride close to home or on a kayak trip. Bikerafting lets you combine two of these things into one trip.

Cyclists and hikers today have plenty of great digital tools. When I looked for something similar for people who want to spend time on the water, I couldn’t find anything that met my needs. So I built my own. Stan Wody describes Polish rivers and lakes, pulls current water-level data from IMGW-PIB, the Polish national hydrological service, and runs the Kayak Map of Poland with marked stretches, portages and bans.

Descriptions on Stan Wody are based on a table of sources and quotations. Before information about a weir, a portage or a ban goes into a text, I assign it a specific source, a quotation and an address where it can be checked. This handbook follows the same rule. If sources disagree, I choose the more cautious option and note the discrepancy.

Buy the e-book if you’re thinking about your first trip

E-book

Bikerafting in Poland

A Practical Guide to Your First Bike & Packraft Adventure

Now€9.99

From release day€14.99

Release date: 20 December 2026. Just in time to read it and get ready for a spring trip.

You get a practical handbook to come back to whenever you plan another trip. Instead of more hours spent searching for information, you have it organised in one place.

Buy the e-book for €9.99

PDF e-book, English edition. The file arrives by email on release day.

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Frequently asked questions

What format is the guide in?

A PDF with a clickable table of contents, for reading on a computer, tablet or phone.

How do I get it after purchase?

A download link arrives at the email address you give at checkout, on release day.

Can I read it on my phone?

Yes. The pages are laid out for a phone screen, and the maps can be zoomed in.

Do I need my own packraft?

No. You can rent packrafts, and each loop says whether it can be done with a rental kayak.

Are the loops suitable for beginners?

Each loop lists its difficulty, portages and the places where you have to get out. Stretches with more difficult water are marked.

Do I get maps?

Yes, every loop has a map with the put-in and take-out.

Do I get GPX files?

The maps are in the PDF, with each loop. If GPX files are added to the handbook, all buyers will get them with an update.

Does the guide work offline?

The PDF can be read without a connection. Water levels are checked on the day of the trip, and for that you need the internet.

Are the loops checked?

Each has its sources and the date it was checked. Water levels, portages and bans change during the season, so check them again before you go. The guide tells you where.

Will I get new editions?

Yes. Corrections and new loops go to the same address the first file was sent to.

Is this the English edition?

Yes. This page sells the English edition. The Polish edition, “Podręcznik bikeraftera”, is available on the Polish page.