Long-distance riding equipment selection

A pragmatic outlook towards the long-distance bicycle riding long voyage gear culling difficulties:
1. In a long time on the road less riding
2. Loading entire the camping supplies and clothes to correspond to various weather conditions
3. loading multi-day food
4. loading multi-day water
5. in a long time unable to obtain modern equipment and tools bicycle
6. a long ride

general considerations:

1. Loading: Multi-day water and edible, leftover chapters, repair tools with the necessary luggage, the heaviness to 40kg alternatively extra often. In sparsely populated districts need more entities, passengers ambition normally bring the camera, movie, maps, books and more. We have to consider is the ability to withstand considerable weight of shelves and pack sack.

2. Reliability: This is the choice of car is the most important point,If you dine and no dead of cancer, for the bike traveler, is the merely one with not spare car

3. Repairable degrees: average avert likely difficulties and the ability to repair from the failures.

4. Compatibility: When you have to take a lot of special parts specifications as a backup, ought consider using more common parts is more popular?

From the above we can draw such a conclusion, for cycling, the weight does not seem so important, the surplus 2-3 kg likened to the absolute weight and is a. Bring some more spare parts and tools can cultivate the degree of car repair, and make you feel by ease on the road.

shelves and pack Package:

cumbersome, and when riding in poor road bumps on the shelves and pack easily damaged packages. Use of steel pipe is usually higher than the shelves of solid aluminum, and did not increase much weight. Especially the former shelf, steel pipe before making a longer shelf life. The weakness is usually the shelf, only patronized by the weight of a 5mm screw, you can try to rack up soldering in the frame to solve the problem.

pack for most low-cost archive for the used plastic anchor shelf hook is weaknesses. Of long-distance riding and most were more respected Ortliebs this mark pack pack. Vaude's pack bag is designed to emulate the Ortliebs, yet the system is the nail of their own design.

Frame:

quite common that numerous human use the frame too had a very long walk, so this appearance is not very important. But when the frame tin make your trip more enjoyable (to dilute your anguish.)

author does not recommend using mountain bicycle frame, but the use of design for snug travel trailers, such as Roberts and Orbit.

If you select the mountain bike frame, you'd better put to use instead of straight to Yan, the sometime is more comfortable and more conducive to changing the riding situation. Special travel to (I surmise the butterfly) and more comfortable than normal handlebars. Another option is

carriage frame (700C), invested that its rim and tire to encounter your requirements. The authors suggest using the 40mm (equivalent to 1.75 bar) of the child, for a concession handle with a kind of road conditions.

an important issue is the frame should be stiff enough, principally later the triangular part; softening of the load later the triangle behind the severe diarrhea in coerce when climbing.

* fewer use of suspension in the station wagon before, and one of the reasons is a very bad case of difficulty, the second is,Japanese data, it is difficult to shock * installed steel frame shelves

repairable nice; neatness old-fashioned car thieves and caring

failing to shake the wheel: The main consideration is the size of the universal, this can easily detect a replacement and spare.

1. rim size (I chose the more common translation of the 26-inch and 700C)

26-inch: nearly be said to be of international standard, 26-inch rims, inner tubes, tire widely available too. Fitted with the best quality before departure superior rim, so you can not take behind.

700C: amusements car multinational standards, very fashionable in Europe, but the tires generally narrow, restricted use outside of Europe need to take a good ample alternative.

wheels at high load for long distance riding in the trauma, so I spent more time to compare and choose.

2. HUBS: 36 apertures namely the world's standards; try to choose the closed hub, the better to bring a small measure of waterproof bearing lubricant, per one thousand kilometers to almost upkeep.

3. tire:

* pattern: The cardinal requirement is durable. Road cycling in penniless, many of the bad tire on the side faster than the step, so do not especially cared about how tire step wear. Plain thick tire sidewalls (bald tires, tire mountain coherent pattern) is a good choice.

* Width: Many people like to use 50mm of tire, it is ample to meet all kinds of road conditions, but the 37mm-40mm of the tire is a more eclectic choice.

4. interior tube: the same request and durable, the most expensive is not necessarily the best, pay more attention to the weight of many inner tubes prefer than strength. Try not to use a smaller tire internal tube with harsh.

Miscellaneous: (I picked a few translation)

1. flywheel: fly in fly more easily marred than the outside, but once the fault is laborious to repair.

2. chain: before departure to put on a good fetter, and take sections of the chain for backup.

3. bottle cages: plastic is more difficult to damage than aluminum.

4. pedal: mini regard for long-distance riding speed, so do not use self-locking, self-locking shoes once very bad trouble. Self-locking can be considered dual-use drive.

5. shoes: long-distance riders rather outdoor sports shoes rather than the self-locking shoes mountain, which is relatively shorter life span. With a good couple of sandals, wading can be replaced.

6. bring lighting equipment, portable pump and code tables.

tools and spare parts: strap composition of tools, the chief axis puller, crank puller,Lacoste Prep CB Trainers, brake blocks,A life by peg in a motorcar occurrence folk were c, spare car line, spare tire, tire repair tools, screws, the final recommendations of a number of

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1. rugged terrain often make screw loose, periodically check and constrict the screws

2. attention to the sound of the car, whether an exception should immediately check to find the sound source

3. to some money and copies of identity documents secluded in a sealed bag inside the handlebar. Money and important documents will be placed ashore a microscopic office pack package.

4. bring sunscreen

5. for top ailment and dry and peppery weather to accustom well in advance to prepare

6. such as follows camping oil, pay attention to safe cache

7. put some mothballs in the baggage to discourage fleas and additional uninvited guests

8. documents and slumbering bags to keep dry