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Contents 1 NOTICE OF INTENT 2 Jelfs Kit Ideas 2.1 Common Gear 2.2 Unique Bulky Gear 2.3 Unique Daily Gear 2.4 Luxuries 2.5 Recovery Kit 2.6 Bike and some spares 2.7 Luxury 3 Adams Kit Ideas 4 Rhetts Kit Ideas 5 BOTHs Kit Ideas 6 Section Expansion 6.1 Cooking Kit 6.2 Medical Kit 6.3 Food 6.3.1 Breakfast & Lunch 6.3.2 Dinner 6.3.3 Snacks and Road food 7 Old Entry 7.1 Essential Kit - Bikes 7.1.1 Toolkit Specs 7.1.2 Cooking Gear 7.1.3 Med Kit - Bike 7.1.4 Spares 7.1.5 Food/Menu - Bikes 7.2 Preferred Kit - Support 7.2.1 Food/Menu - Support Vehicle 7.3 Dream Gear

NOTICE OF INTENT

Now that we are in the final month of planning, we are locking down the options we have to the most assured and the most desired. One of the things we have locked in is the ute; we're taking the PigPatrol, and it will be following the same path as the bikes. This means we'll have fuel become less of an issue, but as we're taking a 44 of Diesel and possibly a 44 of unleaded too, but that means that there's less space on the back for kit...

Nazi rule #1: If it isn't listed here, it doesn't go on the ute!

Jelfs Kit Ideas

Here's a good link to a forum with some really good stuff about what to take and why...

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=262998&highlight=nx650

Following on from the decision to take Rhetts ute, we can start to lock in some packing ideas: Common Gear - we only need 1 set, stored on the ute, and this will service everyone. Unique Bulky Gear - each rider has this stuff, but it's carried on the ute. Unique Daily Gear - Each rider will use this in the course of every day riding, so it'll be carried on the bikes. Luxuries - A list of things it'd be nice to bring along, but if we need space they get diced.

Common Gear

LIST UPDATED ON 12 JULY 09

ITEM	QTY	ON HAND	Owner/Buy From
Med Kit	1	No	Jedi
Gas Burner (big)	1	Yes	Carport
Gas Bottle	1	No	Caltex
Gas Reg, Hoses	1	Yes	Carport
Cooking pots	3	No	Asian Grocery
Wok	1	Yes	Carport
Cooking knives	2	Yes	Asian Groc
Wok Stirrer, tongs etc	1	Asstd	Asstd
Tinned Foods	1 Week	No	Coles
Engel Fridge	1	Yes	BOTH
1 Week supply of food (core)	1 week	No	Rays Tent City
Diesel	120l	No	Caltex
Petrol	200l	No	Caltex
Jerry cans	4 x 20l	No	MarkyMark
15l Water Jerrys	3	Yes	Rays Tent City
44Gal Drum	1	No	Ghost/Caltex/Rhett
44 Gal Pump	1	Yes	Jelf
Pump (fuel)	1	Yes	Autobarn
Pump (water)	1	No	Supercheap
Solar Shower??	2	Yes	Camping World
Water (Drinking)(20l)	1	No	Coles
4wd recovery kit	1	Asstd	See below
Ipod charger (cig socket)	1	Yes	Jelf
4wd spares	1	No	Rhett
HiLift Jack	1	No	Rhett
Chainsaw	1	No	Rhett
Bike Fluids	1	No	WLMC
Spare Tubes	6	No	WLMC
Chain Lube	2	No	WLMC
Spare chain	2	No	WLMC
Oxy kit/Arc and generator	1	No	Rhett
Fishing Gear	4	No	Each
Camp lighting	4	No	Rays Tent City
Speakers and Ipod	2	Yes	Everyone
Cordial/Electrolytic concentrate	1kg	No	Coles
High energy stash	Dunno	No	Coles
Tarps (Groundsheets+Overheads+Bike wraps+Emergency)	6	No	Rays
Ropes (camping, recovery, tie-down)	100m	No	Rays
Winch (unless the PigPatrol has a bar-mounted one)	1	No	Ebay
Snatch Straps	2	No	Ebay
Croc repellant	1 can	Yes	Rhett
Books and personal time stuff	Asstd	Yes	All
Axe	1	yes	Jelf
Toilet Paper	4	No	Coles
Comms (Radio, headset, spare batts)	1pp	No	Each
Emergency Comms (EPIRB,Sat Phone)	1	No	Adam

Unique Bulky Gear

• Swag
• Sleeping Bag
• Clothing
• Coffee Machine (I'm not kidding about this one)

Unique Daily Gear

• Camelback
• Snacks
• Sunnies
• Riding kit (armour, boots, etc)
• Radio
• Maps
• GPS
• Wallet
• Cigars
• Glow Sticks
• Lighter
• Mobile 1st aid pack

Luxuries

• Rum
• Soft Drink
• Afro Comb
• Music
• Camping toys and stuff
• Air Mattresses
• Camp Table
• Camp Chairs
• Eski
• Dry Ice
• Gas Burner (Backup)

Recovery Kit

ITEM	QTY	ON HAND	Owner/Buy From
Snatch Strap	1	Yes	Jelf
High Lift	1	Yes	Jelf
Tow Chain	1	Yes	Jelf
Comealong (2T)	1	Yes	Jelf
Hand Winch (2T)	1	Yes	Jelf
Shovel	1	Yes	Jelf

Bike and some spares

Luxury

Adams Kit Ideas

• Bike Only -
• Bike and some spares -
• Luxury -

Rhetts Kit Ideas

• Bike Only -
• Bike and some spares -
• Luxury -

BOTHs Kit Ideas

• Bike Only -
• Bike and some spares -
• Luxury -

Section Expansion

Cooking Kit

• 2 Pots (5l)
• Wok + Brush
• Tongs (+Spare pair)
• Pot (1l)
• Chopping Board
• Food Knife (Cheap Kiwi Brand)
• Cleaver (Cheap Kiwi Brand)
• Oven Mitts
• Washing up kit (Scourer, Detergent, Plastic Bucket)
• Durable Dining Kit each (self-provided - cup, plate/bowl, knife, fork, spoon)
• Plastic Bags (prep-bags, trash bags)

Medical Kit

• Band Aids
• Disprin/Aspirin
• Bandages - Crepe, wide
• Bandages - Crepe, Narrow
• Bandages - Triangular
• Dettol
• SuperGlue
• Clean Gauze/rags
• Eye-wash cup/shotglass
• Salt
• Vinegar

Food

This is a bit of an open-ender; it is based on daily consumption patterns. Cooked or not, there's options, depending on how filling and how much of a hurry we're in etc. I'm sure we'll surprise ourselves with inventiveness, but here's a small list of possible meals:

Oh, and I reckon we bring along a thing of protein-shake, just in case.

Breakfast & Lunch

I've bunched these two together cos the meal creation is pretty much interchangeable. We're probably going to want to avoid significant cooking and time taken to create the foods, and they both need to be filling and energy packed.

• Porridge - Oats, Milk (UHT), Sugar, Dried Fruit,
• Eggs - Eggs (fried, scrambled, omelette), Bacon, Tomato, Toast (Bread),
• Baked Beans on Toast - Guess the ingredients
• Cereal - Cereals (Weetbix, muesli, etc), milk, sugar
• Toast and Spread - Bread, marg/Butter, Peanut Butter, Jam, Vegemite,
• Pancakes -Flour (self-raising), eggs, milk, sugar, Spreads
• French Toast - Bread, Eggs, Sugar, Spice
• Fruit Salad - Fruit, Coffee, Cigarettes
• Sangers - Bread, butter, spreads, salad,cold meat
• Damper/Scones - Don't tell me we're not gonna try this at least once :p

Dinner

• Pasta and Sauce - Water, Pasta, onion, Prebought sauces, meat (cured meats like salami etc travel better)
• Oven Baked fish/chicken - Foil, oil, seasoning, meat, jacket potato, corn, Onion, carrots (root veg lasts longer)
• Grilled Steak and chips/wedges - meat, potatos, oil (a fair bit), sauce, grilled onion, tomato to make it look healthy
• Fried Rice - Water, Rice, meat, oil, onion, nuts, sauces, chicken stock powder
• Stew - Meat, water, root veg, onion, soup mix, bread rolls
• Soup - cos we've run out of meat :p
• Noodles - Cos we're too buggered to make anything
• Chicken Chasseur - cos we're hunters, yo! Seriously, it's pretty much chicken stew.

Snacks and Road food

Energy bars, confectionery, and such snacks to keep energy up during a hard day, and to treat yourself with at the camp.

• Muesli Bars
• Milo
• Chocolate Bars
• Gummi things
• Dried fruit
• Trail Mix

Old Entry

This is the data from the previous page. It's here to make sure we don't forget anything that was listed, but it should be superseded by the above.

Essential Kit - Bikes

We can spread this over all the bikes, as we really shouldnt need a compass each and a GPS each, etc...

• CamelPack - 3l minimum. Again, it will make a difference if we're running a bike-only config or bike and support, but each rider should carry enought o be hydrated at all times.
• Compass - kinda self evident, but maybe jsut the one that is inbuilt in the GPS
• GPS - Garmin Etrek CX or better has been recommended by a guy who knows. 300ish, then load shonkymaps, and grab some waypoints if you can.
• Maps - apparently we'll be struggling to get reasonable topos of there outside of the shonky maps. We'll try to Miners Den closer to teh time.
• Toolkit - defined later
• Basic Med Kit - more than band-aids. defined later
• Cooking Kit - depends on the support vehicle status. If its bike only, this'll be fairly minimal.
• Snatch Strap - just one, for bike recovery... and no comealong or anything as they just take up too much space (bet we'll regret that in time
• Wallets and cash
• Sat Phone (if we can track one down. NextG if we cant)
• Swag (minus the big mattress)
• Camping mat (yoga mat)
• Radios
• Radio w. Throat mike (this needs a discussion)
• Change of clothes
• Spare Parts
• Fishing Rod

Toolkit Specs

This is just what I plan on bringing. Im sure Rhett will have a larger list of things.

• Spanners (10-19, 27)
• Allen Keys
• Pliers
• Phillips Drivers (2,3)
• Flathead Drivers (1,2,3)
• Slip Jaws
• Zip Ties
• Leatherman
• Tyre Irons
• Hand/Foot Pump
• Fibreglass kit
• Metal Mend
• Spark Plugs
• Chain Breaker
• Spare Chain (can we find a common pitch? From my understanding, we can use a heavier/wider chain with a common pitch on a smaller bike, but we cant mix pitch sizes)
• Puncture Repair Kit (in case we run out of tubes)
• CO2 Canisters (being slack)

• Solar Charger (12V to keep batt charged and also charge phone etc)

Cooking Gear

• Coffee machine
• Pot/plate combo
• Lighter
• Cutlery
• Coffee Cup
• Firestarters
• Gas burner

Med Kit - Bike

• Bandage - wide crepe
• Bandage - Triangle
• Superglue
• Panadol
• Eyewash gear
• Sticky Banaid strip
• Antiseptic (Dettol/Alcohol/Cream)

Spares

• Tubes (many)
• Levers
• Pedals
• Spark Plugs
• Cables
• Oil
• Screws
• Foam for replacement air filter
• Fuel filters
• Fuel line
• Bunch of spokes

Food/Menu - Bikes

• Water (5l/bike)
• Trail Nut Mix
• Dried fruit
• Some fresh fruit (eg apples)
• Soup Sachets
• Rice
• Tinned Tuna
• Freeze Dried meals
• Jerky (Im unsure about this...)
• Sugar hit
• Vitamin Pills
• Oranges/Limes/Lemons (altho I don't think scurvy is a real problem after only a week or two :p)
• And we can catch fish, if Rhett can live up to the boasts of being the worlds best fisherman :p

Preferred Kit - Support

The support vehicle will be generating its own electricity, so it should be able to keep things cold and charged and such. I've been running through some stuff in my head that could be good to have along, but I keep coming back to the fact that they are built for an interconnected world... My phone goes flat after a day or two, the ipod cant last more than a few hours, etc etc.

So, if we get the luxury of a support vehicle, I would start the list with a laptop, charger and inverter so we can dump video and photos, recharge USB devices, run an independent GPS solution, look up long range weather forecasts/sat maps, etc etc...

After the laptop, I would be interested in an extended menu (see below) and a wider set of spares in case of a big stack. And some luxuries like a couple of different sets of clothes would go a treat too :)

Oh, and a bigger 1st aid kit than whats on the bikes

Food/Menu - Support Vehicle

• Eggs
• Bacon
• Steak
• Fresh fruit
• Snags
• Marshmallows
• Pasta
• Bundy

Dream Gear

• Spare Rim (1 x front, 1 x rear) - dream gear cos each bike has different axle sizes.