Complete Gear List

Submitted by Jonathan Stoddard on Wed, 2010-12-22 13:33

Below is a list of all the gear we carried with us. I'm happy with the amount of gear that we took. I thought it was a good blend of comfortable and lightweight. I never felt that we had taken too much gear. Gear marked with an askterisk is gear that I bought specifically for the ride, and thus picked it because I thought it would be good for a cross country bike ride. Most of the other gear I already owned, and might not be the best choice for a long bicycle ride. 

Because our wives met us half-way on the route, this gear list is really only accurate for the first half when we were self supported. But I think had we done the entire ride self-supported I wouldn't have made changes to the gear list. 

On average we both carried 15-20 pounds of gear including food.

Gear Shared Between Us 

Repair Kit 
4 Spare Spokes 
Chain Repair tool 
1 Spare tire 
4 spare tubes 
2 Tire levers 
Multitool 

Cooking gear
MSR Pocket Rocket Stove
2 Large Fuel Canisters
MSR 2 Person Cookset (1 Pot, 2 bowls, 2 Cups)
2 Liter platypus water bag

Other
Big Agnes Emerald Mountain SL3 Tent 
Thermarest ProLite 3/4 Sleeping Pad
Maps for route (I printed them from google maps)

Personal Gear

Clothes 
Lightweight Rain Jacket
3 Pairs socks
2 pairs cycling shorts
2 pairs cycling jerseys
1 SmartWool NTS Microweight T-Shirt *
1 pair running shorts
Flip flops

Other
REI Travel Down +45 Sleeping Bag
Western Mountaineering UltraLite +20 Mummy Bag (Used this a few nights in New Mexico)
Spoon
Cell phone
Biodegradable soap
Toothbrush Small pack-towel
Lightweight Headlamp

Gear on the Bike
Pacific Outdoor Equipment Rear Bike Pannier *
Old Man Mountain Red Rock, Rear bicycle rack *
Ruffy Tuffy 700 X 27 Kevlar Tires *
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