TriathleteTurner - 2009-08-11 4:21 PM
On a Long distance Bike ride (a one-day bike ride) say 50 -100 miles what do I need to take with me? Bearing in mind I want to travel as light as possible.
I can carry everything I need for a century in my jersey and I have no saddle bag or anything else.
Food/water:
I only carry two bottles on the frame and I stop at a store once or twice to refill them with Gatoraide.
(I don't know how anybody rides with a Camelback
). My lunch goes in a ziplock baggie taped up tightly with electrical tape. I keep the food that I'll be eating regularly loose in my back right pocket which are usually Nature Valley Sweet and salty bars with the ends of the wrappers cutoff with scissors. I can eat these easily without stopping.
For tools, ditch the pump for the smallest CO2 thing they make and carry two cartridges. I carry those, two tubes, a patch kit, two small levers, the three allen wrenches my bike needs, and a chain tool all packed tightly in a taped up ziplock that I take on every ride.
I carry some toilet paper, $, cell phone
(always turned off
) in another baggie untaped.
I roll up my arm warmers and warm gloves tightly inside my rain jacket in my middle pocket.
I have an MP3 player
(and don't care what anybody thinks about it
), in a small pocket on my tri shorts with the headphone wire under my jersey and hanging out of my neck hole.
Again, all of that fits in my jersey and I can barely even tell I'm carrying it.