Personal setups, Ultralight / Singletrack » Scott’s GET setup – fall 08

by ScottM

Bike: Lenzsport Leviathan, full suspension 29er

On bike:

• Big Agnes Insulated Air Core pad (strapped to handlebars)
• Garmin etrex VistaCX GPS
• One bottle

Epic Ride Research Feed Bag, containing:

• FOOD!
• 2oz bottle of Stans fluid

Epic Designs seat bag, containing:

• Phantom 32 sleeping bag
• Marmot precip rain jacket
• Mountain Hardware rain pants

Custom made frame bag, containing:

• Pump, multitool, spare tube, chain tool, topeak mini-shock pump

Osprey Talon 22 pack, containing:

• Adventure Medical Kits ThermoLite Bivvy sack, v2.0
• MSR dromlite 200 oz bladder
• Pearl Izumi arm/leg warmers
• boxer shorts (for sleeping)
• random first aid and repair items (zip ties, chain link, tape, etc)
• camera
• toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, sunscreen, )
• Food! (~2 days at a time)
• Chain lube and rag
• GET mapset (~14 maps)
• Katadyn Hiker water filter
• spare batteries (2xAA, 4xAAA)
• spare tube (26×1.5)
• short sleeve tech shirt
• Creative Muvo MP3 player (not for riding, for long fall nights…)

On person:

• long sleeve technical shirt
• bike shorts
• wool socks
• Pearl Izumi X-alp shoes

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This was for a 4-5 day trip with several opportunities for resupply, so no stove. Sub freezing temperatures were expected at night (mid-fall in New Mexico). Only a slight chance of rain, so no tarp, just the bivy bag.

I’ve found that for steep descending or technical riding in general, I prefer nothing hanging from my handlebars. I left the feed bag on as it seems to make no difference. But when things got interesting and/or fun I pulled the sleeping pad from the bars and was pleasantly surprised how much handling improved, to the point where I nearly felt unloaded at times.