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
Equipment in Berlin:
- Small 2-wheel trailer
- Tarp
- 2 big pots + lids
- Fanny pack for money
- 3 nestable tupper-ware boxes without lids
- funnel
- 2 big wooden serving spoons, 1 wooden scraper
- 1 small peeler
- 3 big metal bowls
- 1 20-inch replacement tube
- 3 back lights
- 1 16-inch used tube
Permanent equipment
Equipment that does not get used up and that we keep over the years.
| What? | Where is it? | Who is responsible? |
| 1-wheel trailer + skewer | Berlin | Candid |
| 1-wheel trailer + skewer | Somewhere in Bulgaria | Candid is taking care of contacting Caroxo |
| Small 2-wheel trailer + hinge | Berlin | Candid |
| German SIM card with cheap rates for EU | Berlin | Candid |
| Biketools: Crank Remover, Cassette/Freewheel tool, allen keys, chain link remover | ||
| Communal phone (dual-SIM) + charger | ||
| Waterproof bag for paper | Berlin | Candid |
| Folder | ||
| 2 big cooking pots with lids - 1 taller light steel pot (that fits inside) 1 short, wider aluminium cooking pot | ||
| 1 smaller cooking pot | ||
| 2 x box graters | ||
| 4 bowls (preferably stainless steel and the same size!) | ||
| 2 long wooden spoons | ||
| 4 chopping boards | ||
| some good knives | (everyone will probably bring at least one) | |
| 3 peelers | ||
| something to mash or blend stuff | ||
| 2 plastic cups | ||
| cutlery (just a few things) including some communal spoons! | ||
| 4 large plastic containers for soaking beans, chickpeas etc. and storing herbs (preferably stackable!) | ||
| Washers to get 1-wheel trailer skewer onto more bikes | ||
| 4 water canisters |
Equipment that gets used up
Equipment that gets used up, so it needs to be acquired before and during the tour.
| What? | Who can bring it? / Who will take care of it? | Where to get it (cheaply or for free)? |
| Medical Kit | Red Cross? Pharmacy? | |
| Liquid Propolis | ||
| Colloidal Silver | ||
| If possible ONE general BIODEGRADABLE shampoo, toothpaste and dishwash and a big handsoap?. | 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 | ||
| Big box for carrying spices, tea etc. | ||
| SIM card for every country | ||
| Replacement tubes for trailers (10-inch and 16-inch?) | ||
| 2 kitchen towels | ||
| Sponges | ||
| Cleaning soap | ||
| Handsoap for cooks | ||
| Plastic bags | ||
| Matches, lighters | ||
| A4 sheets of paper | ||
| Big sheets of paper (for rota and workshops) | ||
| Markers and pens |
Optional things to bring
Things that are not absolutely necessary and are thus not communal, but would be useful if some people brought them to share.
| What? | Who can bring it? |
| Sewing Kit | |
| A netbook/laptop - so we can blog along the way! | |
| Walkie-Talkies | |
| Battery charger for batteries of bike lights or mobile devices |
Archive
- 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