Touring Equipment

1 months, 3,000km cycle tour in the summer (September).

Bike wear
Rapha touring short (credit card + cash in tiny pocket).
Rapha merino jersey (fucking amazing).
Gore bibs short (threw it away after Spain).
normal sock for riding.
Vans Authentic shoes (cycling and walking)

Off-bike wear
Merino baselayer.
Boxer short (I worn this when I went to a restaurant, no one bat an eyelit).
Thick woolly sock for sleeping

Saddle bag
1 man tent (poles are strapped inbetween the top tube and framebag).
Sleeping bag (0 degree, get cold at night but worth it)
Inflatable mattress.
Rapha softshell jacket (only see used for five days).
Medical bag (pill, bandage, cream, etc.)
European USB plug (france, spain and morocco use the same plug).
1x Inner tube.

Frame bag
Zip ties.
Convertor to power phone, camera, etc. from the dynamo.
2 camera (big and small).
Kindle.
Smartphone (using Google Maps' offline feature and the phone's GPS alongside map to plot as we ride).
Passport.
Lips balm.
Sun cream.
Pump.
Map (we buy and ditch them at every countries we go through).

On bike
Hope front light (attach to bike)
Bright rear like (ditto)
Tool is in red water bottle, (15mm spanner, allen keys, lots of patches, glue, Leatherman, etc.).
Bottle cage for 2lt water bottle.

**Thing I don't need to carry;
**Big camera (small one is perfect)
Softshell jacket - a cheap pocketable rain jacket would be smaller and cooler in Morocco, like the Castelli Squadra .
22t cog - never seen use, prefer to have a 20t freewheel.

**Thing I would change/add;
**Uniqlo Ultralight Down jacket, cheapest lightest down jacket that'll be useful with the zero degree sleeping bag, it work well in 400k+ audax.
Kindle for the Paperwhite one - backlit would be fucking useful when reading in a tent.