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April 2009 
How to pack for AIDS Lifecycle
Posted on Nov 26th, 2008
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onyourleft
onyourleft
The 'bag o' the day" method works for me. Some pack by category ie: bag of socks, bag of jerseys, bag of shorts .... whatever keeps you organized. You don't want to waste time in the morning hunting for gear. The idea is get out of camp quickly.
Each bag had socks, shorts, jersey, bra.... everything for a day in the saddle.
One bag is marked "cold" with long sleeve jersey, full finger gloves and undershirt, wool socks. Even in California in summer you may need it.
Another bag was for red dress day, another bag had no jersey, why? I buy a Lifecycle jersey on the ride. The other 4 bags pretty normal bike outfit.
I bring 2 large plastic garbage bags.
My routine is arrive in camp, park bike, eat dinner first! I learned that here and from my tentmate on 3, then put up tent (or find that kindly and super ultra fast tentmate had done that already-thanks ALC 3 & 4 tentmates if you're lurking) drag luggage to tent, grab sweatshirt and sweat pants and shower stuff, toddle off to enjoy toasty warm clean shower, once clean and changed to clean sweats toddle back to tent and toss sweaty smelly toxic waste bike clothes into garbage bag.
Spend rest of time in camp in clean, warm and comfy sweats 8-)
You will find that crumbled up bike clothes take less room, the bag compacts on itself. I brought no street clothes. In fact on my last ALC's I flew back in bike duds 8-)
You have to light your tent and light your way back to it. I also brought some little things to wear each day, paper leis, toy neclaces to give to the kids who come to the towns of like Bradley where they hold a BBQ for us. The kids and parents apreciated that, getting something from the riders.
Each bag had socks, shorts, jersey, bra.... everything for a day in the saddle.
One bag is marked "cold" with long sleeve jersey, full finger gloves and undershirt, wool socks. Even in California in summer you may need it.
Another bag was for red dress day, another bag had no jersey, why? I buy a Lifecycle jersey on the ride. The other 4 bags pretty normal bike outfit.
I bring 2 large plastic garbage bags.
My routine is arrive in camp, park bike, eat dinner first! I learned that here and from my tentmate on 3, then put up tent (or find that kindly and super ultra fast tentmate had done that already-thanks ALC 3 & 4 tentmates if you're lurking) drag luggage to tent, grab sweatshirt and sweat pants and shower stuff, toddle off to enjoy toasty warm clean shower, once clean and changed to clean sweats toddle back to tent and toss sweaty smelly toxic waste bike clothes into garbage bag.
Spend rest of time in camp in clean, warm and comfy sweats 8-)
You will find that crumbled up bike clothes take less room, the bag compacts on itself. I brought no street clothes. In fact on my last ALC's I flew back in bike duds 8-)
You have to light your tent and light your way back to it. I also brought some little things to wear each day, paper leis, toy neclaces to give to the kids who come to the towns of like Bradley where they hold a BBQ for us. The kids and parents apreciated that, getting something from the riders.
Lastly let this be your AIDS Lifecycle packing slogan:
If you can't ride without it bring two.
If you can do without it don't bring it.
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