Equipment

Here we keep a record of the collective equipment needed/thought/available for each Biketour.

If you want to know what you should bring generally see here -> participant equipment recomendation or in the FAQs on www.ecotopiabiketour.net

Collective Group Equipment as of 2014

• Trailers
  • We have two Bob trailers - one is with the coordinators in Thessaloniki, another travelling with a 2013 participant hopefully arriving in time. If not, we will have to purchase a two wheel y-frame from a bicycle shop in Thessaloniki (at an agreed reduced price.)
  • We will borrow a third one from Lastenradkollektiv in Vienna - Carry Freedom Y-Frame: http://www.lastenradkollektiv.at/fuhrpark-anhaenger/ (Lollipop)

• BT_2014_advertising_material - Booklets, leaflets, stickers, posters, screen printing stuff etc. - make your own!

• It would be good if you sort out your bike yourself. However, if you don't have a bike/cannot bring one, write to us and to the list, maybe we can point you to somewhere and/or people on the route can help you out (probably someone who is leaving can lend you their bike etc.

• If you need somewhere to sleep or have a space in your tent, then make this know on the 'tent forum': https://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/Needed_or_extra_camping_equipment

What?	Who can bring it? / Who will take care of it?	Where to get it (cheaply or for free)?
2 Rocket Stoves (bucket-sized tins, stove L-pipes, Perlite, screws; materials needed to build it during Kick-Off Days in Sofia)	...	Restaurants, Markets?
3 Trailers?	One is in Thessaloniki and will be taken to Sofia	Potentials: From Lastenradkollektiv in Vienna? From a cycling organisation in Sofia?
2 Medical Kit	Barry bringing one first aid kit (3 weeks after the tour starts)	Red Cross? Pharmacy?
liquid Propolis	...	...
colloidal silver	...	...
Biketools We have some basic tools plus a few special ones that will be communal, you can add here what you will bring. Take a look if your bicycle needs a very special tool.	Crank Remover, Cassette/Freewheel tool, allen keys, chain link remover	Some may be borrowed from the Thessaloniki Bike Collective and other Bike workshops (either older stuff as donations or do wholesale order together)
Big box for carrying spices, tea etc.	...
A netbook/laptop - so we can blog along the way!	Christabel will bring one called Bilbo, Candid will also bring one
Walkie-Talkies	...	Ask through lists
Mobile phones, charger and cheap prepaid SIM cards (preferably for all countries crossed)	Christabel + Tatjana will bring solar charger with various leads for charging	Ask through lists, freeshop
Battery charger for batteries of bike lights or mobile devices	sml can bring one, has to check which sizes fit in (sure AA, not sure about AAA)	...
Raincover bag for paper material (maps, info folders, contact details of projects etc.)		Anyone got a spare rainproof bag, like you may use on a bike trip for your sleeping bag?
Plastic covers for map to keep them dry while riding		Anyone who likes paper maps got one of these to share communally for the scouts?
If possible ONE general BIODEGRADABLE shampoo, toothpaste and dishwash and a big handsoap?.	coordination will bring those things from self organised projects in Thessaloniki	Washing-up liquid, shampoo and sun-cream: feel free to bring these along, we're running out of time to go around looking for these
Fairer traded coffee / tea	...	wholesale order through food-coop?
Lighters & matches	Anka bringing some
Sewing Kit	Barry bringing one plus other bits & bobs for fixing stuff
KITCHEN NECESSITIES'' (BOLD = we have it)
*2 big cooking pots with lids - 1 taller light steel pot (that fits inside) 1 short, wider aluminium cooking pot
* 1 smaller cooking pot	may have in a suitable one in Thessaloniki
* 2 x box graters	1 is being brought from Thessaloniki
* 4 bowls (preferably stainless steel and the same size!)	two in Thessaloniki - one aluminium, one plastic
* 2 long wooden spoons
* 4 chopping boards	2 in Thessaloniki, 2 more white chopping boards needed
* some good knives	Some in Thessaloniki, Anka to bring 2-3	(everyone will probably bring at least one)
* peelers	two in Thessaloniki
* something to mash or blend stuff
* 2 plastic cups
* cutlery (just a few things) including some communal spoons!	Thessaloniki
* glass jars for dressings	some in Thessaloniki
* 4 large plastic containers for soaking beans, chickpeas etc. and storing herbs (preferably stackable!)
* 2 kitchen towels
* sponges
* cleaning soap
* handsoap for cooks
* soap dispenser:
* plastic bags
* matches, lighters
* washing bowl	...	...

• Cooking utensils - the majority of last year's cooking equipment is in Cluj, Romania with a collective where we spent the last days of 2013 biketour - HELP NEEDED TO GET IT TO THE START OF 2014 IN SOFIA!!
  • 1x big silver/ black pot + 1x big lid; metal
  • 2x medium black/ sliver pots
  • 1x medium black teflon pot
  • 2x medium pan lids; one blue, one metal
  • 1x white enamel washing up bowl
  • 3x white water containers (only 1 has a lid)
  • 5x white plastic chopping boards
  • 1x grater
  • 1x long wooden stirring spoon
  • 2x flat wooden spoons
  • 1x white/ yellow ladle
  • 1x small blue ladle
  • 1x wooden masher
  • 1x orange handled shovel
  • 1x red bag of spokes and skewers

See also

FAQ

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do you know of any other bt-stuff floating around ?