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Bike Trip Packing List |
- You should train/practise with your bike rigged the way you're going to ride it- panniers,
gadgets, whatever.
Two weeks before your ride, get your bike right and avoid changing things. - Each rider should have all the rider's home and cellphone numbers.
- The quality of your day's ride is contingent on the previous night's sleep
- There's always some surprise- a mudslide, a trench, etc-- and that's okay.
- I think that at the end of a day, the priorities are:
- eat carbs within 15 minutes to restore glycogen
- get out of the shorts
- get out of those socks
- get your wet clothing started drying
- clean off your chain
Essential Things - social skills
- lots of water bottles
(50-50 water/Gatorade) - padded shorts, Assos chamois creme
- padded gloves
- sweat bands
- cell phone + charger
- Sunglasses
- sun block
- high-vis nylon jacket
- cold-weather shirt
- credit cards, cash ($20's)
- Ziploc bags
- lots of socks in Ziploc's
- air pump
- chain links and chain tool
- spoke wrench
- sm.flashlight w/batteries
- Allen-wrench and screwdriver MultiTool
- chain lube, wd40
- 2 or 3 new inner tubes
(right valve type) - tire patch kit
- tire levers
- bandaids, neosporin
- 800-mg motrins
- Toiletries, toilet paper
- Any Medications
Nice to Have List - pen and paper
- Amenities info (bike shops, restaurants, stores)
- recent reports from the trail authorities or Yahoo Group
- CO2 cartridges and gadget
- rain poncho
- superlarge cotton gloves to wear over your padded gloves
- Palm Pilot for note-taking, alarm clock
- bug repellant
- compass
- Leatherman-type tool
- small pack of Wet-Wipes
- dental floss, wire wraps, one bungee
- Vaseline/Easy-Glide
- Flip-Flops for evening use
- digital camera
- one polo-shirt/shorts for dining out
- half-roll of quarters
- a rag
Things that I Carry that I probably don't need
- compass
- matches
- Breath-Right strips
- small pack of duct tape
- extravagent lighting system
- space blanket
Things that I Used to Carry but Don't Now.
- I used to try to calculate the number of calories required for the trip and then carry sufficient PowerBars for the trip. Learned it's not necessary.
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