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From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: What to Bring on a Bike Trip
Message-ID: <699@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 16:55:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 16:55:20 1985
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I'm contemplating taking a 300-mile bike trip at the end of the
summer and I haven't got the foggiest idea of what one brings on
one.  (I'm a reformed backpacker and runner due to knee surgery.)
The questions I have are these:

1.  What's the best thing to wear?  Do the skin shorts really make
    a significant difference?  How about riding gloves?  Of course,
    I would wear a helmet, but is there anyone who has any arguments
    against them?

2.  What gear is essential?  I assume a full repair kit and a few
    extra tubes would be necessary.  Anything else?

3.  What about food?  I don't mean full meals - I would fix those at
    a campsite or go out to eat locally - but high-energy snack food
    for during the ride. 

4.  Anything else I should know?


Any advice from experienced bike-trippers would be greatly
appreciated.

	Thanks in advance,

--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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   I don't think my company *has* an opinion, so the ones in this
                  article are obviously my own.
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"Ain't life a brook...
 Sometimes I feel just like a polished stone"  -Ferron