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What tools do you carry?
Benson:
I've transfered fuel from bike to bike, simply by connecting ones fuel line to the others petcock and leaving them both open. Gravity makes the levels equalize of course. [It really has no choice either]
I often ride with a Small portable radio I picked up at Radio Shack, it's cool to have some tunes and news available when I stop if I want.
Once my friends and I were stopped in Massachusetts on the side of this Mountain in the Morning Fog, I broke out the radio and just as I tuned the station in it was playing the first note of "Stairway to Heaven", it was almost sereal.
It was definately a nice touch to the Hooter break out on the trail that day.
Those Co2 cartriges are nice to have out on the trail as well, and a small bag with an assortment of Fasteners is sometimes invaluable.
When I was riding with the same guys every weekend for a couple years, we sometimes collaberated and left the redundant tools that we each carried at the truck and brought things we wouldn't usually with the extra room. As long as you stick together it works well. You also have to remember to replace the fasteners you barrow off the guy who carries that fastener bag, you want to have them again if you need them, LOL.
I carried a Tow rope, and I tied a loop in each end so you cold just loop it around something and slip one end thru the loop then take the other end back to the bike being towed, that way you didn't have to mess with any knotts at all and waist time. Sometimes you can tow a bike with a broken kickstarter to get it started, and you don't want to have to sit around when the motor lights up untieing knotts.
I make one loop small and I use that on the tow end, the other loop I make large enough to slip over a bikes handlebars on one side. It's fast, and the knotts last so the loops are always there from tow to tow.
A AAA Mini Mag light is nice to have as well, sometimes just to look for a fastener that dropped in the wrong spot in the daylight even.
When it comes to food I carry, I stay away from the Energy bars and Sugar, I usualy carry a can or two of Vienna sausages in my rear fender bag. Or some Jerky. Or half a Sub sandwich sometimes.
I try to carry something substantial enough to keep me going realisticaly, Energy bars don't cut it for me.
Having a Thermus with Hot Soup back at your truck after a ride on a Cold day can sometimes seem like it saves you life too. I think it actualy can at times, if your refreshed and not Hypothermic on the drive home after the ride, you'll tend to make better decisions behind the wheel.
I've actualy noticed a difference in my Cognative abilities after the Soup over the years. I've come to depend on it even, maybe I'm just getting Old?
I have to carry an "Eppi Pen" with me on the bike too now, I'm Alergic to Bee stings and don't want to die. The last Bee, last Summer, almost did me in.
I also have a small bag on the front of my number plate, and I always have a clean rag right there handy in front of me to clean my goggles every chance I get.
I whip it out every time we stop and wait for the slower guys.
It's always muddy and wet in the East, and there is always branches hanging that get you wet too. [Remembering to look down when Roost is flying at you is also essential.]
Riding without Goggles in the Woods is not too wise. Eyeballs are easily plucked out when they are focused down on the trail at speed and not looking up at the hanging branches of Doom and Blindness.
I got a nasty black eye a few years ago myself riding in the rain in New Hampshire with my goggles hanging on my arm. I could have lost my left eye, and had a cut just bellow it after the stick nailed me.
It almost knocked me off the back of the bike it hit so hard. I thought my eye was gone at first.
Now I keep my goggles clean enough to wear at all times.
mikesmith:
Cool picture,this summer I had something fly down the neck of my jersey and start biting/sting me.It got into my sleeve and was on my forarm as I was trying to smash it,I took my jersey off and it flew away.I used the sting arrest and it only made a small welt.So even if your not allergic Id recomend carrying some.
teamgreen500:
Great Post. All I can add are:
Cell Phone (You'd be surprised how many places they work nowadays)
Trail Marking Ribbon-Bright Pink
Dust Masks (2 incase it gets real bad...usually nice for "Newbies")
Glock 25...I ride in areas that are known to have a certain type of "Garden"...Mike Smith will back me up on this.
Power Bar.
This was a great idea for a post! And you've given me a few things that need to be added to my kit. Thanks!
Manny
John:
Glock 25, as in weapon - you must be kidding?
alan:
--- Quote from: John ---Glock 25, as in weapon - you must be kidding?
--- End quote ---
No Joke I am sure! My Wife a college professor, ranchers daughter packs a 38 on her quad. We ride mostly 1 to 3 miles from the border in the El Paso desert. You never know what you could run into! So I understand caring a weapon. I use to carry one on a holster when I rode along in the desert. I depends on where you ride, lots of bad people out there, you could run on to a drug deal or who knows what! :twisted:
Alan :roll:
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