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Okay bikers, you're packing the bike for a ride .
badwrench
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Long ride or short couple-of-days trip
What essentials do you take?
My short list (other items may be added and some omitted)
Basic toolkit (only thing I ever needed on the road with the Sporty was a screwdriver to change a headlight bulb), a few spare bits like bulbs, fuses, duct tape and baling wire.
Rain gear
Couple changes of socks and underwear and T-shirts
Camera and film
Mexican blanket poncho (gotta have one of these)
Sleeping bag w/bivy bag
Always have a knife in my saddlebag (usually Buck 119 Special)
Hat (learned my lesson after sunburning me head in Bodie)
Flashlight and batteries
Day pack (rolled up in saddlebag, comes in really handy)
I travel pretty light, only have a pair of throw-over saddlebags on the bike. Anything else gets strapped to the passenger seat or left behind.
What essentials do you take?
My short list (other items may be added and some omitted)
Basic toolkit (only thing I ever needed on the road with the Sporty was a screwdriver to change a headlight bulb), a few spare bits like bulbs, fuses, duct tape and baling wire.
Rain gear
Couple changes of socks and underwear and T-shirts
Camera and film
Mexican blanket poncho (gotta have one of these)
Sleeping bag w/bivy bag
Always have a knife in my saddlebag (usually Buck 119 Special)
Hat (learned my lesson after sunburning me head in Bodie)
Flashlight and batteries
Day pack (rolled up in saddlebag, comes in really handy)
I travel pretty light, only have a pair of throw-over saddlebags on the bike. Anything else gets strapped to the passenger seat or left behind.
Comments
the wench
the blade
the gerber
the shades
the waterproofs
the dosh
the phone.......
then gettin lost & finding, the B&B. [:D]
exxxxxxxxxxxxxellllllllent!!
...first aid kit
...Duct tape...not the whole roll, but some, never leave home w/o it
...sound sgood, be careful...[;)]
Electrical tape
zip ties
cell phone
baseball hat(for looking cool when you walk around)
rain gear
hex and torx bits, screw driver, socket wrench and a few sockets, box end wrenches.
quart of oil and tranny fluid
probably a few things I cant think of right now.
Ride safe brothers, there's some idiots out there.
Sunblock
Ear Plugs
Pencil and Notepad
Mustang 380
G26 & extra mags
Blanket
Small already made up tool set
Extra bungies
Duct tape
Points, condenser, plugs (<---someone explain what the 1st 2 are [;)])
Mre's & 2 12oz bottles Water
1 pair pants
2 t-shirts in ziplock bag
3 0r 4 knives (decided when trip is planned)
Sog all purpose tool
Jeff
Basic toolkit, a few spare bits like bulbs, fuses, duct tape and baling wire, tire patch kit and CO2 to get the tire back up, quart of coolant, quart of oil.
Rain gear, including Totes, CD Player or Tape player, Tunes, earbuds, two-way radio, maps all in the tank bag along with a insulated water bottle with straw.
Enough clothes to keep me clean and smelling like a daisy for at least 1/2 the trip + an extra day of underwear and socks. I can hit a laundramat if need be.
Camera and film Sometimes.
Sleeping bag with backpacking Tent. (Sierra Designs Clip Flashlight) but often hit motels and save the space.
Always have a knife in my pocket (Kershaw Ken Onion Blackout) usually a sidearm in the trunk.
Hat doesn't fit all that well over a full face helmet, but usually have a ball cap in the cloths bag.
Flashlight and batteries
Day pack (rolled up in saddlebag, comes in really handy)
Pre-paid phone cards, Cell phone.
Leathers, including two or three pairs of gloves of different weight and thickness.
Sometimes a soft sided cooler in one of the saddlebags. Mine is a RT Beemer with hard bags and trunk.
One time on a trip I had the bolt break that holds the oil filter assembly on my FXRS. On my bike the filter *'y is under the bike behind the transmission. The filter was hanging from the oil lines and damn near dragging on the road and I was in the Utah Rockies, a million miles from nowhere. Two zip ties would've fixed the problem, but I had none. Here I was pawing through a trash can at some trailhead looking for a piece of string or wire or anything I could tie the filter *'y up with until I could get to a town with a Harley shop. [:(!]
I now always carry a couple dozen zip ties of various sizes in my windshield bag. Just like your pistol - don't leave home without 'em.
If somebody didn't already mention this, I'd add eyedrops to your list. Sometimes riding in the desert or riding into a setting sun can give you the dreaded burning-eye syndrome. Nothing better than pulling off the road and hittin' the ol' eyeballs with a few drops of Visine. Ahhhhhhhhh. That's relief! [:D]
I also carry a bungie cargo net to hold extra things I buy or need to carry. It will hold my leather jacket if the temp gets up above 80 degrees. A can of windshield plastic cleaner if you use the windshield. Towel paper for cleaning and checking oil.
I carry a hat or dew rag. A leather neck/face cover for cold weather riding. These are just a few items not included in the posts above.
Tool kits can take up a lot of room. Some people carry tire repair kits and little air bottles or electric compressors. I also carry a disk brake lock to make it more difficult for folks to wheel my Harley down the road.
Good luck and ride safe. Don't forget to wave!!
Like sig said, trash bags. (is rain gear, for you and your stuff)
For a long trip, pick up new packs of socks/underwear cheap and treat them as disposables. It can be worth those extra few bucks to keep from dragging around a big ol' dead weight bag of dirty socks/underwear.
If you're planning on spending a long time at your destination but still want to travel light, it can sometimes be worth the money to box up clothes and stuff you'll need there and FedEx it ahead to where you'll be staying. If you contact them ahead of time, hotel managers will usually agree to hold a package for you. All you have to carry on the bike is what you'll need on the road. This system comes in real handy if you're taking a female along. [;)]
Co2 tire refill kit.
What a load of road apples, that twerp never left the back lot, spent hot afternoons in his trailer, and only lasted two seasons. I have been riding since 1964, and you are the only one here that has ever even heard a Cher album, not to mention ABBA or Heart. Hell, I have been correcting typos longer than Bronso lasted.
Hell, I have been correcting typos longer than Bronso lasted.
You need to keep at it, Dale.
Spare set of plugs?
Lors of $$$ ![8D]
You're all forgetting the obvious one........44-24-36,DD,130lb,5'6"........
As the man said, he likes to travel light.
On a road trip like this, sometimes it's better to just pick up certain items as needed instead of having to drag them around. [;)]
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
Hell, I have been correcting typos longer than Bronso lasted.
You need to keep at it, Dale.
Had to leave something for you to do.[8D]
Vital (in addation to what your wearing when you roll out)
Cash
Bar of soap in a shirt pocket (when you hit rain you get your shower, wash your scoot, and do your laundry at the same time)
Tube of "Blue Goo"
Vial of antibiotic
Optional, but handy to have
Bronson Rock[:D]
Rain gear
Two changes of clothes
Change of boots
Maps
Cell phone
GPS
First aid kit
Two bottles of water
Tire plug kit
12v tire pump
Blanket
Emergency body bag (plastic, water proof type)
Flash light (new bateries)
Camping axe
All of this is an easy fit on the Goldwing with the trunk and saddle bags. If Sandy comes along, we hook up the Chyenne trailer to carry all of the required "girly" stuff!
I doubt a "sporty" would pull a trailer. [:D][:D]
my 1200 might, not that I'd get one, but have thought about it (Trailor).
on the previous bike I had, I put a theodolite bag with tools on the tweek bar up front with a bungee cord, a mummy bag bungeed to the sissy bar witha small bag for clothes and such on the back of the bar above the tail light and a 45 crammed down in the bag.
But totin someone complicates all that.
Now that I am older and have been married way too long, I was thinking about one of those dinky trailors. They aren't exactly manly, but they are functional.
Long ride or short couple-of-days trip
What essentials do you take?
My short list (other items may be added and some omitted)
Basic toolkit (only thing I ever needed on the road with the Sporty was a screwdriver to change a headlight bulb), a few spare bits like bulbs, fuses, duct tape and baling wire.
Rain gear
Couple changes of socks and underwear and T-shirts
Camera and film
Mexican blanket poncho (gotta have one of these)
Sleeping bag w/bivy bag
Always have a knife in my saddlebag (usually Buck 119 Special)
Hat (learned my lesson after sunburning me head in Bodie)
Flashlight and batteries
Day pack (rolled up in saddlebag, comes in really handy)
I travel pretty light, only have a pair of throw-over saddlebags on the bike. Anything else gets strapped to the passenger seat or left behind.
You finally coming for a visit?