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Equipment Pages Index

Introduction
How Much to Bring and Weight
Some Advise About Advise
A Note to Perspective Sponsors and Gear Suppliers

START HERE for Touring Bikes and Commuting Bicycles
Bicycle Touring Frames 
The Steel Repair Myth.
Steel and Aluminum Derailleur Hanger Repair.
Bicycle Touring Wheels
Phil Wood: The Best Bicycle Hubs

Panniers / Bike Bags
Cargo Trailers Vs Panniers
Tires for Bike Tours..
Bicycle Touring Saddles.
Cindie's Women's Specific Bike Touring Saddles
Brooks Leather Touring Bicycle Saddle Care and Conditioning
Bike Computer
Touring Handlebars, Bar Ends, Adjustable Stems, and Padded Grips.
Sealed Cartridge Headsets

Camping
Buying Camping Equipment
Tent and Ground Cloth
Sleeping Bag
Sleeping Pad
Camp Stove
Pots and Pans
Water Filter

Clothing
Bike Touring Shorts

Health and First Aide

Electrical
Short-wave Radio
Computer
Internet
mp3

Books
Packing list
Pictures of Equipment Failures
Shopping

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View of Mount Taranaki (Egmont) from Stratford saddle.

Tim's flat tire, the orange patch is the boot, this tire is shot.

Picture of green fields and Mount Taranaki (Egmont) volcano cone

The Forgotten or Riding the Lost Highway snaking it's way through sheep country.

Taranaki (Egmont) volcano cone

Stealth camping with touring bicycles somewhat hidden on the side of the road.

Cindie taking in some of New Zealand's famous green scenery.

Here comes the sheep through town, Whangamomona.

Wild turkey - but not the kind you drink.

A homestead.

The grazing sheep watch us ride by.

Free or stealth camping at a road side rest area on the Forgotten Highway

Moss covered mountain creek.

Deer with big racks.

Quite roads in rural New Zealand.

The steepest hill (so far) in New Zealand

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How to Buy a Used or New Custom Touring Bicycle and existing Bike Upgrade Guide.

What years on the road have taught us.