Gooner was 35lb
With water etc. the sidecar is to me the only solution if you want to go for more than a couple of hours a day. Riding will very quickly dehydrate a dog, so you need maybe double or triple the amount you'd carry for a human.
Gooner rode until he was 10 (lived to be 15) and was quite happy doing two hundred mile days with two or three stops, especially in winter when he could just curl up out of the wind. You won't be doing that with a bag or pannier type solution, so work up and if they look cramped set a lower limit between comfort breaks.
I would not like a backpack solution. Dogs have no self control, only an ability to balance risk against potential gain. If they see something better and decide to wriggle this cannot be allowed to make you lose control. If they start climbing out of a pannier or tank bag you can maintain some control, pull over, fix the harness etc.
Andy
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