- Volume is worse than weight
- Eat before you’re hungry
- Food (things you can consume quickly and on the bike)
- Water (more than 2 water bottles. A camelback in a framebag works well here)
- Shelter with rain fly
- Sleeping bag
- Spare tube
- Patch kit
- Pump
- Two sets of clothes (inc socks) (good even for an overnighter because you might get rained on)
- Soap
- Dry bags
- Lights and a way to charge them
- Tooth brush
- Padded shorts
- Jersey is a good idea
- Comfortable shoes for camp
- Cup for drinking warm things out of at camp
- Regular clothes for camp
- Pillow
- Extra straps / tie downs
- Things to make fire with