What are we taking for our cycling trip?

1. Camping Kit

• From left to right, the smallest most comfortable sleeping mat from Karrimor at 300gm: Buy here SportsDirect.com

• Sleeping bag is the Phantom 15 from Mountain Hardwear genuinely good to -10 in our experience, but weighs 950gms. It’s not cheap.

• Tent from Terra Nova, 900gm Laser 1: It’s pretty cheap here: SportsDirect.com

• There is my blow up pillow and pack towel from Quechua.

• Our stove is the trusty and pretty unbeatable MSR Dragonfly: Go Outdoors

• Finally is the Titanium stuff to match the Titanium bike!  The pan is from Snow Peaks and it’s outstanding. We have used and abused ours for almost a decade. It just doesn’t bend or wear like aluminium pans. Go Outdoors. The titanium Sporks seem excessive but have lasted us well and were a present from Mr Addy Pope, but you can pick them up at: Go Outdoors

Most of the clothing kit was selected by us from the outstanding Morvelo who are supporting us on this adventure. I will review their clothing in more details but needless to say I love it or I wouldn’t be wearing it for the next 3 months!

• MTB Helmet, Summer Fox gloves, waterproof gloves.
• Goretex paclite waterproof jacket in black bag
• Micro fleece top, Zip off hiking trousers:
• Pants & Socks x4 not shown as I feell they wouldn’t add to the image 🙂
• Merino long sleeve thermal
• Lightweight down sweater
• Fleece backed lycra leg warmers
• Morvelo eighty five cap
• Morvelo Unity Bib shorts and Jersey  x2
• Movelo green gillet
• Morvelo T-Shirts for off the bike x2
• Sun glasses

These are some medical and everyday bits of kit:

• First aid kit: Bandages, anti septic, tape, scissors, plasterers, anti histamine, Ibuprofen.
• Bio-soap and sun block.
• Multi vitamins, rehydration salts and glucose and Anti biotics
• Water filters from Aqua Pure and folding water bottle.
• MSR Stove spares kit, spare RHINO LACES, the unbreakable laces!
• Back up water treatment tablets and anti bacterial hand wash
• Dental first aid kit
• Spare sealed bags for food etc
• Compass and spare front and back lights.
• Money belt and bike padlock with cable not in picture

This is my bike spare parts:

• Clothes pegs and sewing kit could have been in with other stuff!
• Tyre levers and spare brake and gear cables
• Trusted Topeak multitool
• Spare RWD disc pads.
• Spare chain links and assorted bolts for rack, chain rings, pannier clips and cleats.
• Spare inner tubes and 3 patch kits
• Chain oil, pump and zip ties. Gaffer tape is to be wrapped around the pump.

These are the electronics I will be taking, a few too many but that always is the case!

• My big camera it Ortleib bag
• Camera battery charger
• Garmin e-Trex 30 GPS unit loaded with maps from www.velomap.org
• Rechargeable AA and AAA batteries and spare camera batteries
• Rode DSLR Microphone
• Purple pebble rechargeable power source
• Ipod shuffle and headphones
• Go Pro hero 2
• Spare Canon prime 50mm lens and small IR remote
• Solar Panel from Goal Zero with USB battery charger
• Velbon, smooth pan head tripod

I will be taking 6 SD cards and USB OTG cable to link it all up!

Well I think that’s about it!