Category Archives: Touring Tips

Interesting packing container

https://www.thegrommet.com/rolo-adventures-roll-up-travel-bag

I found the above link today. I measured the length of the BMW GSA sidecar and it is exactly 17 inches so this would fit. But then where would I put Dutch ovens?

Jim

Learning BaseCamp

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Here is a PDF from New England Riders that may be useful to you in learning BaseCamp, the popular program for planning routes for a Garmin GPS. I like the feature of BaseCamp that allows you to shell out to Google Earth so you can see the terrain of an area of the route you are planning. Click on the picture to download the PDF. The download might take a while. It’s 11 megs.

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TOURING TIPS

When I pack for a 3 day trip or a 2 month I pack my cloths the same.

I carry 3 clean pairs of socks, underwear, and tee shirts, that along with the set I am wearing means I have 4 days of riding Then I when I stop for the night I find a motel with laundry facilities,

I put on swimming trunks and washing the entire bundle. The next morning I start out with 4 days of clean cloths.

The socks and underwear are placed on the tee shirt and then rolled up into a slim cylinder, this allows for much better packing. This also allows me to grab one cylinder and off to the show I go.

My dirty clothes are either placed in a zip lock bag to identify the dirty from the clean or turned inside out.