Packing the bike for Tour de South Island, Feb 2014

[oldman_rider2013]

Ok so i need some help with what to take on the bike in February next year.What do you take and what don't you take...if there's a thread already can someone put a link up.cheers
p.s the only thing i have decided not to take for sure is the wife

[Akzle]

beer pot and hookers.

[BMWST?]

wet weather gear,esp if you intend on spending any time on the west coast

[swarfie]

wet weather gear,esp if you intend on spending any time on the west coast

Spare gloves for when some arsehole steals them outa ya helmet at Punakiaki.....still steaming over that and it was 30 years ago

[MIXONE]

Cellphone and credit card.

[bluninja]

Cellphone and credit card.

....and some cash. You never know when there's going to be an EFTPOS down in the last gas station miles from anywhere and they can't find (don't have) the old machine to do the paper transaction. It's also good for those purchases you don't want the wife to see.

[mulletman]

Hi, you dont need that much cash a $50-60 would be fine for gas, theres more then enough bowsers about.
South Island rds have coarse chip = lots of grip even when its wet but very hard on tyres so if your bringing
the FJ make sure they're fairly new. Keep off the shiney shit if you come across & any stay on the coarse, keep
well to the left as we get lots of euros and yanks here that sometimes forget what side of the road they're spose
to on esp after one lane bridges and when exiting rest stops. I usually throttle off when i come across a rest
sign in anticipation.
As said above a good set of wets , enjoy riding our roads that have bugger all traffic.

[oldman_rider2013]

Hi, you dont need that much cash a $50-60 would be fine for gas, theres more then enough bowsers about.
South Island rds have coarse chip = lots of grip even when its wet but very hard on tyres so if your bringing
the FJ make sure they're fairly new. Keep off the shiney shit if you come across & any stay on the coarse, keep
well to the left as we get lots of euros and yanks here that sometimes forget what side of the road they're spose
to on esp after one lane bridges and when exiting rest stops. I usually throttle off when i come across a rest
sign in anticipation.
As said above a good set of wets , enjoy riding our roads that have bugger all traffic.

Cheers for the heads up ,i got new rubber from the previous owner which was a bonus, as for the yanks you can usually hear them before you see them lol.But i mainly started the thread to see what riders take away with them on long runs ,other than a tooth brush and 1 spare pair of underdax what else are people packing?

[duckonin]

what else are people packing?

Heaps of imagination !

[oldman_rider2013]

Heaps of imagination !

I'm all for that...as long as it doesn't take up to much space , I've already filled one of my panniers with beer pot and hookers(thanks Akzle).

[MD]

I've posted this idea before - Ride and discard

Take old clothes that you were going to throw away or will never wear again. Wear them and dump them as you travel. Day by day your luggage gets lighter. Less washing required and no carrying dirty clothes home with you. I always carry spare gloves. I hate having to put on soaking wet gloves.

Also you will need to pack lots of smiles. Essential kit for riding some of the world's best motorcycling roads.

[shafty]

I just searched for my packing list on the computer but sorry its gone.....

Its quite handy to have a CHECK list, so you can decide whether to take it or not, rather than forget that pair of jandals or phone charger altogether

Anyway, I'll see you down there in Feb, look out for a RED ST1300 with KB sticker on the front

[Akzle]

the old motto:
"if it's not essential, leave it behind. if it is essential, take three."

[oldman_rider2013]

Anyway, I'll see you down there in Feb, look out for a RED ST1300 with KB sticker on the front

will do, at the moment there's my silver Yamaha, a BMW and a Blackbird :

[Waihou Thumper]

Dress up to Dress down... It is the south, four seasons in one day..
Snacks, Camera, Imagination, a a supple neck, cos you are gonna be looking left and right continuously!

That means you might have to get a massage every now and then...