By bike: 179 miles.
PBP Gear check:
Bags:
- Arkel handlebar bag. It's small, but small bags force you to pack less. In this bag will be a a quick access puncture kit, tubes, and some quick nutrition.
- Revelate seat bag. This bag will have cloths, other tools, and the remainder of the between controls nutrition.
Cloths:
- Frogg Togg shell (I take everywhere) Waterproof and warm. The shell doesn't compress well so I strap it to my rear rack.
- Wool short sleeve shirt.
- Bike shorts
- 3 pairs of socks.
- A pair of wool gloves with a couple pair of rubber glove shells.
- Long tights
- Reflective vest and ankle bands
- Light cotton long sleeve button shirt
- Bike gloves
Tools/tubes:
- Multi-tool
- adjustable wrench
- allen set
- spare crank bolt
- 2 tire levers
- pump
- 2 spare tubes
- patch kit
- 2 chain links
- rag
- zip ties
- spoke wrench
- duct tape
- plastic bags
Accessories:
- 2 red lights
- 1 dyno front light
- 1spare battery front light
- 3 water bottles
- rear rack
- 8 spare AA batteries
- 6 spare AAA batteries
- zip lock bag for phone, wallet, and brevet card
- Laminated cue sheet
- GPS with French maps and route
- 200 Euros
- sunglasses and clear glasses
- cycling cap and helmet
- head lamp
- Backup power supply
Food:
- 15 Cliff bars/block combo
- 20 recoverer drink mixes
- Tums
Things to do: (Green highlight = complete)
- Install new tires
- Install new shift cable and housing
- Install new brake pads
- Look into new dyno hub/bought dyna hub.
- Buy and install new chain
- Buy French maps for GPS
- Doctor PBP cue sheets
- Look into battery USB backups
- Bubble wrap for bike transport
- Eye droppers for chain lube
- Butter container
- Tums
- Build Dyna wheel
- Route GPS
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