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
Things often get left behind and often get mixed up with (particularly kitchen) equipment of the projects. One important tip when acquiring communal equipment is to choose items that have an exceptional design. Experience shows that even the most useless things don't get lost for months if their look is easy to recognise, but even the most essential things get left behind when no one is sure if they are ours or belong to the project.
Permanent equipment
Equipment that does not get used up and that we keep over the years.
| What? | Where is it? | Who has access to it? |
|---|---|---|
| Trailers | ||
| 1-wheel trailer + skewer | Berlin/hermannstr | steph |
| Small 2-wheel trailer + pins | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Big 2-wheel trailer (needs to be rebuilt again) | Bratislava | Michal |
| 1-wheel trailer + skewer | Somewhere in Bulgaria | Candid has tried to contact Caroxo without success |
| Tools | ||
| Chain link remover (chain breaker), other more special tools that henning took to germany | nuremberg | lukas |
| 2 steel tyre levers | ||
| "Bone" tool | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Allen keys (9-piece set) | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Small adjustable spanner | ||
| Spoke key (6 sizes) | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Washers to get 1-wheel trailer skewer onto more bikes | ||
| 3 lock extensions to lock the trailers | ||
| Tool box | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Foot pump | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| 3 tire levers | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| 2 cassette lockring removers (different sizes) | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Cassette lockring remover - Shimano HG/IG | ||
| Freewheel puller - Shimano SIS | ||
| Big adjustable spanner (bottom bracket tool is 32mm) | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Chain whip | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Pedal wrench 15mm / hexagonal socket 14/15mm | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Bottom bracket tool - Shimano cartridge | ||
| Crank puller - tapered square | ||
| Cone spanner 13/14 - 15/16 mm | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| Cooking | ||
| 1 tall steel pot with lid | Stockholm | Pelle |
| 1 wide aluminium pot with lid | Berlin | Lilli |
| 1 small wide aluminium pot (no lid so far) | ||
| 1 box grater, 1 flat grater | ||
| 3 big steel bowls (maybe 4?) | 2 in Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| 2 long wooden spoons | Left behind in Tampere | Did someone contact them? |
| 2 big and 2 small floppy chopping boards | ||
| 2 big knives (one purple, one green) | Freiburg | Verena/Charlie |
| 3 small chopping knives | ||
| 3 peelers | ||
| something to mash or blend stuff | ||
| 2 plastic cups | ||
| 2 table spoons, 2 tea spoons, 2 knives (for jam and stuff) | ||
| 3 nestable tupper-ware boxes without lids (so useless, let's get some proper tupper-wares with lids!) | ||
| 2 10 liter water canisters | ||
| funnel | ||
| 1 red strainer | ||
| 1 fabric coffee filter | ||
| 1 oven glove | ||
| Stationary | ||
| 2 German SIM cards with cheap rates for EU/EEA | ||
| Scout phone (dual-SIM) + charger | ||
| Tail phone + charger | ||
| 2 A4 plastic bags for paper with some transparent film bags for individual sheets | ||
| Fanny pack for money | ||
| Sellotape holder | ||
| Others | ||
| Tarp | ||
| Shit shovel | ||
| Stickers | Berlin | Candid |
| Small tarp to cover box trailer | ||
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 | We have one in Tallinn, unsure if it is complete; Michal bought one cheaply | 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? | |
| Big box for carrying spices, tea etc. | ||
| SIM card for every country | ||
| Replacement tubes for trailers (16-inch and 20-inch) | We have one of each size in Tallinn | |
| Sponges | ||
| Plastic bags | There are some in Tallinn | |
| Matches, lighters | ||
| A4 sheets of paper | There are some in Tallinn | |
| Big sheets of paper (for rota and workshops) | ||
| Markers | 1 black and 2 red markers in Tallinn | |
| Pens (rate of loss about 1 per day…) | Some in Tallinn | |
| Puncture repair kit (with a looot of patches, maybe 10–20 per month?) | 1 in Tallinn, almost empty | The cheapest is to get a big tube of vulcanizer and to get several big packs of patches (that don't contain anything else). Those are difficult to find though. In some countries they have them in the home-improvement stores. |
| Spices | ||
| Maps | ||
| Small book for finances | ||
| Small book for circle decisions | ||
| Gaffer tape | ||
| Transparent tape (Tesa/Sellotape) | There is a bit left in Tallinn | |
| Grease, chain-oil, anti-rust spray | All 3 in Tallinn | |
| Bungees (rate of loss +∞) | 1 bungee spider + some small ones in Tallinn | Inner tubes can be used, but bungees are more convenient because they have hooks. The best thing is to put hooks on inner tubes. |
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 |
Other things that we have
Some things that are really not essential, but they are in our communal stuff in Tallinn:
- Hair-cutting scissors
- Tiny set of watercolours
- 1 thin wrench 18 mm + strange conic 14 mm on the other side
- A bit of electric tape
- Some pieces of anti-puncture tire inlet, useful when someones tires gets worn out in one place
- 2 tubes 26x1.9/2.125
- 2 kitchen towels (never used, just get moldy)
- 1 wooden pot scraper