This time of year in southern AZ. 20-40 mile rides pavement and/or dirt. Same stuff. Just change bikes.
Sunscreen/zinc oxide for nose/top of ears Phone (per orders of my wife, not me) Camera: Panasonic Lumix iPOD with 900 tunes if in an urban setting Battery powered back up lights front and rear to supplement IQ Cyo Water: soda water/cranberry mix, approx. a pint and a half for every 10 miles Mini-First Aid Under 40 miles no food (a friend carries mustard packs for the salt) Appropriate drugs Appropriate clothes: long sleeve cotton, MUSA shorts with boxer briefs, wide brimmed hat, gloves, raincape if monsoons Shades with rear view mirror Tools: open ends, allens, chain tool with spoke wrench, fibre fix (actually used it once), headset/pedal wrench, crank wrench, Leatherman, 60 year old Sturmey Archer axle wrench. Frame pump, tube, patch kit, tire irons Pocket pistol (.22 mag) Craig in Tucson On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 8:05:31 PM UTC-7, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > What is your day ride kit, why, and for what type of riding? > > - coffee in thermos and insulated (soon to be a wood quaich/ kuksa) > - pipe and tobacco kit > - ventile cotton analogy rain jacket from Hilltrek > - fishnet long john shirt (turns my sun shirt into a medium weight > insulated shirt, but I have to put it next to the skin. Weighs near nothing > and takes minimal space. It and my rain jacket would be sufficient for 95% > of days, but the weather folks don't get the five % right very often, so I > haul wool...) > - (often) boiled wool 3-season weight sweater (extra layers cause it snows > anytime, and thunderstorms can drop temps into the 40's, dump hail for an > hour or more, and then keep on raining steady if they settle in) > - Sitting tarp > - Bike kit (pump, tube, patch, allen tool, et al) > - Buck 110 knife > - Digital typewriter (Freewrite: think Kindle e-reader on an quality > mechanical keyboard) > - Camera, tripod, etc. > - Irish straps and shopsack for shopping pick up days. > - Fire tinder kit (the only time you need a fire is when it's too wet to > start one. Grin.) > - compass > - rosary > -pen knife > - water pen light purifier > - no food. I prefer to ride fasted > > Why so much? Because I want to ride however long I ride, regardless of > weather. With a brain that can get overloaded by overstimulation, I go > prepared to emergency overnight if required). I haven't weighed the set up, > but it's likely 2/3rds of the way to my overnight/weeklong/forever set up > weight. Add tent, bag, pad, food, more water bottles, and I'm good for > forever. Grin. > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org > www.DeaconPatrick.org > www.CatholicHalos.org > www.ShepherdsandHalos.org > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5a5d9c8f-9d2d-47b3-868b-c9a3bf784b63o%40googlegroups.com.
