On top of what I mentioned previously, I also carry quite a bit of survival and bike repair / maintenance related stuff, not because I need it now so close to civilisation, but because I want to see what it'll be like to carry what is needed for a much longer trip further away from services.

Just a couple of hundred kilometers from here there are vast expanses of complete wilderness that I'd like to explore. For the moment, I am very much in the trials and errors stage leading up to an eventual expedition.