Bike Dreams

Bedding:

Exped Downmat 1x regular and 1x DLX

• – Best thing ever – sooooo comfortble – worth the hassle of pumping them up – hopefully a new fast inflatable system will come along – it did for the old ones but they have changed the valves on these new ones!

MacPac Escapade 700

• semi rectangular so more comfortable to sleep in. Works really well zipped together but we are having the zips at the sides and one person ends up with no baffle as both are on one side…?)

Cut to shape cotton sheet

• velcroed in (easy to wash)

Feather pillow

• complete luxury, but I sleep really badly – put into a compression sac and packs down pretty small, but it may have to go as the hills get bigger!

Tent:

Hillebery Nalo 2 GT

Heavy duty ground sheet

• found it abandoned at a campsite in Wales!

Smaller piece of thick plastic for porch

16 extra guylines

• Half also came from the abandoned tent in Wales!

10 extra pegs

Cooking:

Primus Gravity stove (petrol)

890ml Petrol bottle

350ml Petrol bottle

2x Cheap stainless steel pots from Go Outdoors

• looked longanly at the titanium ones….

Primus 3litre hanging pot

• great for heating up lots of water for clothes / body washing and giant sized food portions and for mixing dough and cooking bread!

Trangia non stick frying pan

• has its own special bag as we are trying not to scratch it too much

Small chopping board

• makes preparing food easy and useful for cutting bread. We only have bowls so it’s handy to have something flat! Slides in pockets of panniers easily

Small Kitchen Devil serated knife

• great for slicing our home cooked bread and doesn’t need sharpening- it has its own gaffa tape blade protector

Vegetable pealer

• makes quick and easy work of pealing veg

Wooden Spatuler

• swedish wooden butter knives are also good but ours broke and couldn’t buy one in the small town we were in

2 Bowls

• 800ml – have them in all the Swedish outdoor shops, they have handles on them and easy to hold and useful for scooping water out of small streams!

2 kids plastic cups, small

• they did have trains on them so therefore 2Trains – my Hash name!

Bake Packer Ultra light

• amazing piece of kit – turns your pans into an oven – we cook our own bread, cakes etc in it, yum yum!See the separate section coming soon!

Ikea cup measurer

• cos I’m writing a recipe book and trying to be vaguely accurate…….

Camping can opener

• tiny and folding

2x normal kitchen spoons

• strong ones and quite big for shoveling food in at high speed!

1x normal kitchen fork

• for mixing cakes, dried potato etc

Tonnes of Zip lock bags

• thanks Ryan air!

Butter container

• really seals so when its liquid it does not paint itself over the inside of our bags!

125ml oil container

• but this may change to a small fizzy drinks bottle as we can only buy it in 500ml – very heavy may just use butter for everything instead…yum! Have also started using mayonnaise container (squidgy one) as it takes up less room as it gets used up.

Large plastic box

• keep this on the top of the bike for our packed lunch – but enough to take bread, cheese, pate, tomatoes, cucumber etc…easy access!

Water containers:

3x Primus 1litre stainless bottles

• but of a squeeze to fit them into standard bottle cages!

2x small plastic bicycle drinks bottle

1.5Litre fizzy drinks bottle

• You can get returnable plastic bottles here in Scandinavia, mounted in Bike Buddy

2x MSR heavy duty 5litre collapsable water containers

• mainly for Iceland when we may have to carry water for 8 days if it is dry in the interior!

Kitchen / Washing Extras:

Ortllib folding bucket small (5litre I think)

• great piece of kit – collect water out of streams, do the washing up in it, carry the draining washing up into the tent for the night, you can stand it it and have a wash, do all your clothes washing in it etc…!

Block of natural soap

• for everything, pans, clothes, body, hair….

10meters (estimated) of thin cord

• washing line, or can be cut up for rope if needed! You will need lots as trees have a habit of being far apart – especialy the ones in the sun!

9 clothes pegs

Bags:

(We have identified the group kit bags by sewing coloured thread onto the outside. This makes it quicker to find stuff!)

On each bike:

2 rear Ortlieb panniers – roll top – not the really expensive ones!

2 front Ortlieb panniers – roll top – not the really expensive ones!

Handle bar bags Ortlieb – think they are 3 Litre ones

1x Clear seal skin roll top bag for rain stuff

• bungees onto top for easy access and you can see what you are diving in for!! I keep my waterproofs etc, warm top etc in it.

1x WX tex camera bag

• great for easy access to camera and binoculars, water proof roll top – fits on the stem of my bike really well!

1x Ortlieb seat bag – medium? For tool storage and easy access

1x Ortlieb seat bag – Large as above

1x Sea to Summit Map case

• with adaption sewn onto it to convert into a bike bag – also handlebar bag has 2 loops sewn onto it attach it to it. – all edges are covered in gaffa tape as the seals went really quickly – perhaps I was unlucky….?

6 Bungies

• could have done with another thinner one as they are a bit strong! – 2 are kept as spares

Repair Stuff:

Sewing Kit

Needles

• kept in Muji’s needle holders of their little kits -only used the needle case!

Normal thread wound onto card

Sail repair thread

Thimble

Down Mat repair kit – comes with the mats!

Small pen knife

4x D rings

2x toggles

1x webbing clip – can’t think of the name of them!

4x hose locks – 2 sizes

Spare lit to petrol bottle

Spare lid to water bottle

Army issue matches

• sealed in plastic bag, wind proof – emergency use only!

Araldite rapid set

3 Miles of gaffa tape

• wound onto itself so it’s flat and stored in lots of different places for easy access.

Tool Kit – Debby’s Bike:

(This is all kept in an eagle creak bag so if the tool bag opens it does not leak small bits!)

Small film canister of grease

Brush section of a travel toothbrush

Topeak multi tool with chain breaker

Leatherman Juice

• useful to have pliers along with the other gagetls on as extra!

Selection of cable ties

Tyre boots

Finish line “wet” Lubricant

4x Park tyre leavers

Locktight – lock ‘n seal

• to try and stop those bolts undoing them selves!

Lots of feather edged patches

Puncture repair kit

Spare glue

Spare seat pin

Spoke Key

Small piece emery paper

Nuts, bolts, washers various sizes and lengths

Spare mudguard bolts

Spare down hill innertube – so we can run at low pressure on corrigated tracks as we have no suspension

3 small clear zip bags to keep bits safe in as you take them appart!

Tool Kit – Alexis’s Bike

Kept in an Eagle Creak type of bag!

Spare DH tube

2x 36tooth chain rings if those Norwegian hills get the better of us!

Spare spokes – 6 rear, 6 front

spare nipples for font and rear

Gear cable replacement – inner and outer

Brake cable replacement – inner and outer

Cable cutters

Cable outer ends and anti frey ends for cable itself

Small adjustable spanner

Length of velcro

• useful for attaching things to frame eg pump and repairs

Chopped up old inner tube 30cm ish

Spare brake blocks

• millions – have 16! not sure how they were going to last but are the cartridge type so they are small!

Nomads frame join spanner

Small mole grips

Speed links for our chains x 4

Multi tool – allan keys and screw drivers

More spare nuts and bolts – bigger sizes

Spare section of chain

Primus repair / clean tool

Rohloff oil change kit for 2 bikes

2 spare Rohloff grub screws

Wash Stuff:

Lifeventure trek towl x2 one L one XL

Eurohike  karabiner towel

• Minus the karabiner! They are more useful than we thought – good for use as a flannel, wiping down wet tent etc…

Folding hair brush with mirror

• lovely present from my son, bought in Body Shop. This one has a cool design!!!

Nail sissors

Essencial oil mix in v small plastic bottle

• for when I can’t stand the smell of myself or when bad weather make washing clothes difficult!

2x Toothbrushes

Toothpaste – natural one

iPood

• great collapsible spade and really light with it’s own bag!

Folding saw

• Pruning type from garden center.

First Aid Kit

• various stuff, bursting at the seams. Will do a detailed list later!

2x Midge head nets

Free samples of midge / mosquito repellent

• collected them at an outdoor show and made sure we went past the stall a few times!!

Ear plugs

• To hide from the alarm clock birds, or not to hear the bears, or to drown out other campers, or to sleep at airports…..!

Large plastic bag

• to use as bath mat, or put washing on etc.

Debby’s Gadgets

2 Phones! Sony Ericsson

• not teckie enough to know what my old one is but it has great battery life and Vodaphone unlocked it for free while I was in UK!

Sony Ericsson G700

• touch screen jobby. Originally my Swedish phone. Battery life not as good as my old one.

Sony E Book Reader

• last min impulse purchase at Heathrow! Thanks to the staff at Dixons who loaded software onto a display computer so we could get it working – we do not have a CD drive! Now I have over 100 books for free now. It can also read PDF’s so we can download manuals for our equipment and view them.

MP3 player

• Very cheap 2GB takes 1x AAA battery

JVC headphones – running sort with ear hooks…!?

Camera – Canon Power Shot A710 IS

• Takes 2x AA batteries, and has view finder so the screen can be turned off. Takes good pics, had it for ages. SD card so easy to take pics off!

Small Gorilla Pod – camera tripod

Cateye cycle computer – basic jobbie!

Alexis’s Gadgets:

Lots more on how he has used the solar power and Shmit DynoHub to charge everything will be in a seperate section later!

Phones –

1x SE K750i

1x SE G900

• both unlocked, orange was going to charge lots but the shop down the Cowely Road, Oxford, did it for half the price and a fraction of the time!

Philips SBA 290 Portable Speakers 9v

Treckstor 8GB MP3 Player – can be charged off the USB battery charging set up.

4GB Surf EeePC (7.2v Battery / 9.5v external supply)

• this is the old sort so it has a lower power consumption

14 x 6v 250mA solar cells (130mm x130mm x 2mm)

64 x AA 2650mAh Duracell Rechargable Batteries

16 x AAA 1000mAh Duracell rechargable batteries

Small multimeter with thermometer

Various memory cards / USB Hard disk / spare wire / Connectors / Insulation tape

2x bridge rectifiers for dynohub

Spare Diodes

Garmin E Trex basic Yellow H – High Sensitivity

Debby’s Luxarys:

Book – The Portable Baker – great outdoor cookbook

Book – Recipes from Wales, small old fashioned cook book

Book – Teach yourself Geology

Games:

Cards

Crochet

Juggling balls

Debby’s Clothes:

- Too many but going to wait for a spell of bad weather before I decide what to chuck!!!

3x cycle shorts

1x Ronhill long trousers

Stockholm HHH, non cotton t-shirt

Short sleave shirt, non cotton

Fleacy gillett

North Face lightweight zip off trousers

Very thin long sleve shirt – for sun protection

Nike long sleaved base layer

2x pants

3x socks (one thicker pair)

1x vest top thing! -for when it is really hot!

1x rap around cotton skirt, very thin, fantastic for airing the bottom!

Haglöfs synthetic padded jacket – packs small

Ivanhoe wool top with full zip and hood

Fleace full zip

Keen ¾ boots – waterproof

Clarkes sandles – synthetic

Marino thermals – longjohns and long sleave top

Berghaus Gortex pro shell jacket

North Face waterproof trousers

Altura Overshoes

Berghaus fleace windproof hat – with ears and chin cord.

Gloves – Experimenting somewhat, see what happens:

Fingerless cycling mits

Fleace mittens

Outdoor Designs waterproof overmits – not sure how waterproof they are…..

Thin pair of synthetic gloves

Other Stuff:

Notepads

Pencils, extra leads, tiny rubber

Passports

Driving Licence

Swedish ID Card

Debit Cards

Credit card

Sun cream

Hair ties

Tampons etc

2x Cycle helmets

Lots of stuff sacks – for food and clothes. Think they are called ultra sil, lightweight anyway!

Net bag from Muji for clothes

Bikes etc:

2x Thorn Nomads

Fitted with:

Rohloff

Shmitt DynoHub

Front and rear racks – Thorns owns

Ergo grips

XTR Brakes

Front light Busch and Muller

• Good lights but switch is really rubbish as it is just a toggle switch. BA managed to break both of them, so they will be removed before we fly again.

Schwalbe Marathon XR Tyres

Giant mudguards to go around giant tyres!

• have clearance for mud though, some mud anyway! And great for keeping road water off you and your feet!

2x Bike Buddy Bottle cages

• can hold big bottles and fit in fiddly places, I have mounted mine really low by bottom bracket!

Sandard bottle cages2x on each bike

• Primus fuel containers fit into these but the Primus drinks bottles are a bit of a squeeze!