I skip the mpeg players. For me its about getting away from all the hubub and clear my mind. The camelback hydration system is abit overkill with these bikes. You can only go 150 miles tops. Its not like you are going to be on for 6 hours straight. I do like to carry a bottle of water in the bags though. A flask of whiskey for when you are camping is good though.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe