Packing List
Trike (54 lb)
Trets (38 lb)
Clothing (4 lb)
Left Ortlieb Pannier (20L, 19 lb)
Right Ortlieb Pannier (20L, 14 lb)
Trets Pannier (2 lb)
Left Ortlieb Dry Pocket (2L)
Right Ortlieb Mesh Pocket (4L)
Top Ortlieb Duffel (35L, 18 lb)
Left Radical Pannier (12L, 7 lb)
Right Radical Pannier (12L, 7 lb)
Guitar (10 lb)
Total weight= 170 lb |
Returning Home
For the train trip home we’ll pack up the trike, Trets, and most of the gear into four checked bags. See Plan C for more information on the planning that went into the return trip.
| Trike box | 26” x 26” x 10” | 24 lb | Most of the trike frame |
| Trike bag | 36” x 18” dia | 15 lb | Trike rear rack and seat |
| Trets bag | 36” x 25” x 15” | 22 lb | Trets frame |
| Wheel bag | 36” x 20” dia | 45 lb | All five wheels plus most of our gear. Packing is one of the reasons for keeping the rear wheel the same size as the fronts. |
For more information see Gear.
TransAmerican Trike Adventure 2012 
Your packing list seems a little (a lot?) short on water…
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We’ll each have a 3 litre bladder and a conventional water bottle (the bottles probably filled with Gatorade) available while riding plus capacity for another 8 or so litres for camping and stretches where water is more scarce. I don’t anticipate multiple days without a refill but if that ever looks possible we can load up with even more. I think there’s more than water missing from this list, I’ll update it with the final list after our next packing test in a week or so.
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Amazing! I’ve packed two trikes and gear for air travel and I still don’t know how you did it! mz
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I think it fantastic that you two have accomplished such a lot. Well done. I am disabled and currently living in Berlin, Germany, as my wife is teaching French at a school here. Berlin is a wonderful place for cycling , with cycle lanes, cycles having priority over cars at intersections etc, so unlike England where many vehicle drivers would like cycles banished from the roads. I find in a city that a trike with one wheel in front (mine is a Lepus), is better than a tadpole trike in a city because the turning arc is far tighter. In the countryside however a tadpole design is more comfortable.
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