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You're skinny enough that you need a down jacket. I seem to carry mine everywhere and only use it for sleeping in and the 10min it takes to get warm afterwards. I guess if I have a mechanical up a mountain it could be useful. That's why I never sent it home on the TCR even though I barely touched it.
Mine is a crazy expensive PHD jacket - full jacket, not vest so it's probably much warmer than yours. I pack it into a 2L S2S dry bag. I could probably force it into a 1L bag but I'm loathe to damage my most ridiculously expensive useless item :)
I've got a superlight, breathable, bug net bivvy for TABR because it's typical hot, steamy and there's lots of bugs. In the mountains I will have to use hotels/motels or nap and move on before I freeze to death.
I want to get a full size NeoAir pad - I have the Small (3/4) one and it's great but I'd love to have my legs lifted off the ground too. So I think I might sell my old 3/4 Thermarest and the NeoAir 3/4 and get a fullsize. Whether or not I take it on TABR I'm not sure - I'm erring on the side of no, but it would make my bivvy sleeps much better.
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Yeah - mine packs down into the pint glass on my desk. I just tested it!
Those NeoAir pads must be great to sleep on, but the faff of inflation / deflation puts me off. On IPWR I had my cut-in-half blue foam pad, which I really like, but the fast riders didn't seem to bother with anything - just rode until more tired. They mostly seemed to try to sleep inside (toilet floors, shower blocks, etc) rather than camp in the bush, for warmth and in case of rain. A lot of the slower / less experienced riders took inflatable mats. I'm generalising, but that was my impression from talking to people and looking at kit lists.
frank9755
Good to carry more stuff on the training rides than you will on the real thing.
I'd defo keep the down jacket. It could be a lifesaver. I wore mine loads on TCR and IPWR. I actually brought it in to work with me today, as I'm out tonight and it is meant to get cold this evening.
Mine is a really thin one from Uniqlo which I got for £19 in a sale just before TCR and isn't too warm to wear when I'm riding at pathetic power levels (as is often the case!).
With bivvies, I found my Alpkit one that I used on the TCR to be good. But the OR Helium I bought for IPWR (because someone told me I needed one with a bug net, which I didn't as they all disappear at night!) was horrible because it wasn't breathable enough - so I woke up shivering even on warm night as I was damp from sweat. If I was doing another one, I would look at the SOL one that is meant to be breathable