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Old 05-06-11 | 12:28 PM
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Bikes: CoMo Speedster 2003, Trek 5200, CAAD 9, Fred 2004

This is our list for touring on our tandem, with weights. This list was designed for touring from 45° and raining on up to warm and sunny, and includes minimal townie clothes. Next tour, wife will have a synthetic tunic, and we'd add light booties. Those are the only things we'd change/add. Note that the weight includes everything on the bike except bottles and cages, and it's for two people.

The trick to touring in poor weather is not to have anything that's cotton, and use wool for socks only. You'll have to wear the socks to bed to dry them. Everything else will dry in the tent by morning. We use a down bag even for rainy weather camping, partly because it's so breathable that we can easily dry stuff in it. We use a good waterproof pad to sleep on, and a large enough tent so that the bag does not touch the tent walls or the tub floor anywhere, and which does not leak, and which also has room in it to store and dry stuff. The tent specs are very important. Many people use a tent that's too small, trying to save a pound. It's not worth it.

We also use several waterproof compression sacks, very important. One for dirty/wet, one for clean/dry, one for stuff you'll put on and off during the day, making it 5 sacks between us. Everything goes to and from the tent already in waterproof sacks.

The running shoes are Goretex.
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