Some useful tips here via pedaling nowhere (and some not-so-useful tips too!). Anyway, it makes for enjoyable reading

http://www.pedalingnowhere.com/plog/42- ... ips-part1/

http://www.pedalingnowhere.com/plog/42- ... ng-tips-2/

Mmmm freeze dried cheesecake. I wonder if it will ever make it over here?

I can't help but read much (but not all) of that and think it's just a shopping list compiled of 'sponsors' products

There's very little in there regarding the 'skills' that will make any trip more pleasurable. All the high end kit in the world won't help if you don't know how to get the best from it ... knowledge and experience weighs less than any amount of cuben / Ti / carbon