I don’t have a full-face, kneepads or elbow.

List so far:

Tubes (many)
Brake pads
Spare tyre
Tools
Levers
pump
Spare bite valve
spare gloves
Old rear mech

You’ve missed: ‘bike’ off the list 😉
+ gear cables
+ mech hanger

Clothes.

Don’t need a mech hanger on a Soul. If you bang it, you need a new mech. Cables is a god shout though.

You didn’t say it was a Soul….how are we supposed to know that?? 🙄

I’d get the tubes with slime in them. Lots of thorns about. (or go tubeless)

Clothes

He’ll be wearing his basque

go tubeless

I’ve seen him change a tube and this is very good advice 😉

Going tubeless would be the best thing you could do.

I should imagine Doug has a pretty good support set up in place and anything he hasn’t already got can be readily sourced from Spanish LBS. So I would limit what I would take to bike specific items, standard riding kit and go tubeless as stated above.

My Soul has a hanger. And I’ve managed to break it.

A good appetite and ability to ride after a few cidres

You shouldn’t really ride wearing a Basque. But whatever turns you on I suppose

wwaswas – you’re right. It’s not that I can’t change one, but it’s painful for people who can do it so much better to watch. They get so annoyed they step in and do it for me, better. Who am I to argue?

Charlie has it!! Appetite and thirst 🙂

Anything that you have on your bike that is specific or weird. I have cables, several types of brake pads etc and can get most things. Working bike is a great idea that lots of people don’t quite manage to execute! Camera. Jelly babies 🙂 tubes or tubeless is a good idea and without it we find on average two flats a week so it’s not dreadful. And clothes that take into account that we will be going up mountains. We have a great bike shop but it is more expensive than the Internet. Basques are optional! Oh yeah I think that something in your water to help hydration works well for multi days in the sun.

Glasses.

Lovely sunny day today…

I’m hopefully jumping on this trip at the end of march.

Chocolate hobnobs for me, always a must.

Last year in the Pyrenees i ran tubeless Rubber Queens – **** brilliant – came away with bits of slate, wood, nails and umpteen thorns in the rear alone – not one problem, held air the whole time and still is so yeah tubeless is always good.

Brake pins and springs i found were pretty useful

Length of old tyre & super glue too