Stuff you take with on a ride.

[avion]

What kind of equipment, or 'stuff' do you guys carry with you when you go for a ride? I'm not talking about nipping down to the shops. But if you go out on a brekkie run or something?

Here's what I carry in my backpack and under the seat:

Inner gloves.
Balaclava.
Puncture kit.
First aid kit.
Cell fone.
Emergency / bribery cash.
Duct tape.
Contact lens cleaner and case.
Tiny torch.
Cable ties.
Lump of prestik.
Video camera. (For hot chicks and accident evidence recording)
Spare smokes and lighter.
Standard Triumph toolkit plus some additions.
Spare fuses.

What I need to add is a decent rain suit. Heard good things about X-Kulcha rain stuff.


Kinda sounds like alot, but my backpack maybe weighs 3 - 4kg total. Feel nekkid without it on. It's one of those Berik biker backpacks, it has shoulder straps and a tummy strap. Can also fit a helmet in there if you walking around.

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[DaveM]

I have a small toolkit strapped to the front of the bike with all the essential tools so it goes with me all the time. Rain suite I only pack on long trips

 

[sully]

I obviously go unprepared .
Take nothing but cash
Though I do take my mobile and rac card (recovery )
About does me

 

[Dilligaf]

Sig .380

 

[avion]

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[CarlS]

I take my rain gear; I use frog togs. They roll up really compact. I take some bungees and a cargo net, my cell phone, and my 9mm. I usually don't carry any tools. I also carry a baseball type cap for when my helmet comes off.

 

[devo]

Like Sully I ride light
wallet
cellphone
wot I'm wearing


:y18:

 

[Joel]

If I take my saddle bags, everything but the sink. Otherwise, cellphone, cash & 45 auto.

 

[The Seeker]

Ibuprophen

 

[Geoff587]

Deborah + sense of humour

 

[CarlS]

[quote author=Geoff587 link=topic=244.msg622#msg622 date=1214118826]
Deborah + sense of humour [/quote]

:y115:

 

[Pooksta]

Guiness, mobile phone, RACV card (full cover) just incase and more Guiness...

Lee.

 

[Dilligaf]

Guiness YUM!

I think I'll have a Black & Tan this afternoon.

 

[avion]

bwahahahaha - you guys crack me up!

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[Mortis]

Unless I'm going for a weekend away, I only take cash and a mobile phone.

 

[fuzzy]

In my waist pack, I carry: Goody powders, Vicodin, Prilosec, gum, wallet, cell phone, and .380 auto. For out-of-town trips, I add a .45 auto and strap on a hand bag with Stearns rainsuit, seat cover, T-shirt, pliers and screwdriver, plastic ties, hand cleaner, paper towels, and a couple bottles of water. If its cold, I add glove liners, sweatshirt and mask. Sounds like a lot, but in a crisis its pretty basic.

 

[CarlS]

And in Florida in the summertime, a ten minute ride can find one caught in a rain.

 

[fuzzy]

Hey, I have been caught in it twice in the last two days. Rode home from church last night on the '69 in a deluge. I was being "cool" and only wearing a T-shirt. That water falling from 40,000 feet was mighty chilly, not to mention the sting. Cool indeed.

 

[CarlS]

I understand completely. I got caught today and no where to duck under shelter to don my rain gear.

 

[Dschief]

I have some assorted tools/spark plugs (for the 2 strokes) in my tank bag that stays on whichever bike I'm riding. If I am traveling more than "in to town", I have some shop rags, a rain suit, windex wipes to clean the bugs off the face shield, paper, and a pen/mutli tool that I got from The Sportsman's Guide that I keep in my tail bag. I love the Cortech sport bags, off or on in less than 5 minutes, and fit all my bikes.