Setting up for adventure riding

**tri boy** · 13th July 2007, 22:44

Two essentials:
Chewing gum.(better than chewing ya tongue, or inner cheek.

Wallet and cash. (amazing what you can bribe ya way out of).

Chewing gum makes a great patch job on all sorts of broken things, if you got the time to let it set.

**buggsubique** · 20th July 2007, 23:19

Originally Posted by XP@

" 41° 6'34.02"S 174°53'31.46"E"

Will you look at that...I live just around the corner from you...

**RedKLR650** · 23rd November 2007, 20:29

Originally Posted by Zukin

I wouldnt ditch the radios, but want I want to do is the following

2 x UHF radios
2 x Earpieces to go inside helmet
2 x mics also inside helmet

and to switches to attach to the handle bar, then all I do is press the button and talk.
Cheers Scott

You can get this exact setup fairly cheaply from Jaycar Electronics.....

Cheers, Stu

**RedKLR650** · 23rd November 2007, 20:37

Originally Posted by Moki

I would recommend including the following when the going really gets tough:
-zip ties
-spare fuses
-spare bulbs
-tie down straps (at least 2)

Totally agree about the spare fuse thing, but would also add a small torch

Was in darkness north of Wellington near the old Tui Brewery in the middle of bloody no-where while on the Southern Cross when the main fuse suddenly blew ( that's where I found out that a still working indicator can come in very handy in finding the road while slowing down to a stop )

Standing there in the dark while unloading my gear to get the seat off to change the fuse, I really appreciated the small torch I'd taken along. There was a spare fuse in the fuseholder luckily as I hadn't taken one along - I had almost everything but....

( I had briefly considered walking back to the Tui Brewery for help, but realised that by 11.30pm, the Tui chicks would have gone home for the day anyway.... )

Note to self, replace spare fuse in fusebox :-)

Stu

**pete376403** · 25th November 2007, 15:53

Originally Posted by tri boy

Two essentials:
Chewing gum.(better than chewing ya tongue, or inner cheek.

Wallet and cash. (amazing what you can bribe ya way out of).

Chewing gum makes a great patch job on all sorts of broken things, if you got the time to let it set.

Carrying the chewing gum in the spares kit yes - chewing while riding - risky if you crash, there's every chance of inhaling it. Get a foreign object in your lung and you'll cough for the rest of your life (assuming it doesn't choke you on the way down)

**Oscar** · 25th November 2007, 20:30

Originally Posted by pete376403

Carrying the chewing gum in the spares kit yes - chewing while riding - risky if you crash, there's every chance of inhaling it. Get a foreign object in your lung and you'll cough for the rest of your life (assuming it doesn't choke you on the way down)

I had no idea Auntie Helen was a member here.
I say chew gum and run with sissors at the same time...

**homer** · 25th November 2007, 21:14

where r u going in nz for 20 days .....with no one anywhere for a week at a time ?
top of mt cook ?
Id have about a quarter what you said

Just a thought what about road side assist?

**Transalper** · 25th November 2007, 21:46

Originally Posted by homer

...Just a thought what about road side assist?

Roadside assist implies you think we might actually have our breakdowns somewhere near an actual paved road or somewhere the will service. Not usually the case.

**deanohit** · 5th December 2007, 19:15

I have been told that insted of carrying spare levers, file a break line halfway along the lever so they can snap off if they hit hard, you are then left with a stubby lever which you can then slip a short piece of garden hose over to give you a full lever again.

**Wolf** · 6th December 2007, 06:57

Originally Posted by deanohit

I have been told that insted of carrying spare levers, file a break line halfway along the lever so they can snap off if they hit hard, you are then left with a stubby lever which you can then slip a short piece of garden hose over to give you a full lever again.

I've found my bark busters have been great for stopping the buggers getting damaged at all. Get ones with decent fairings on them and they'll keep some of the wind and water off your hands as well.

**GaZBur** · 6th December 2007, 07:53

Originally Posted by Wolf

I've found my bark busters have been great for stopping the buggers getting damaged at all. Get ones with decent fairings on them and they'll keep some of the wind and water off your hands as well.

Bark busters are great for protecting the levers up to a point and in fact take a lot of punishment off the whole bike itself. You are right too about wind protection as it helps prevent painfully numb fingers in the cold which is my personal hate about biking.
What I do is loosen the lever bolts a little until they are firm but when you whack them they turn on the bars instead of breaking, proven this works for motard crashes anyway. No need to take a spare then. I am about to set up for Adventure riding and my objective is to carry as little weight as possible - which means just essentials not a huge list of gear and replacement parts that I will probably never use. The more you carry - the more weight you bike is - the more likely you are to fall - the more likely you are to break things etc etc.

**GaZBur** · 6th December 2007, 08:11

Far queues idea about dumping the stock toolkit items has some merit although some of the lists of things on here are surely enough for expedition riders not adventure riders. The spanners you get are crap and are more likely to strip a bolt head than turn it, so replace with decent ones (ring spanners). Are you like me and instead of using the tool in your toolkit to loosen the back axle get out a dirty great socket spanner instead so when you need to loosen it at the roadside its way to tight for the pathetic tool in the toolkit?

MOTORCYCLISTS MUST ALWAYS CARRY
Tying wire
Duct Tape.

**deanohit** · 6th December 2007, 08:19

Some guy has a sig on here that says:
Always carry duct tape and CRC.
CRC for the things that don't but should move.
Duct tape for the things that do but shouldn't move.

**Oscar** · 6th December 2007, 08:31

Originally Posted by GaZBur

Far queues idea about dumping the stock toolkit items has some merit although some of the lists of things on here are surely enough for expedition riders not adventure riders. The spanners you get are crap and are more likely to strip a bolt head than turn it, so replace with decent ones (ring spanners). Are you like me and instead of using the tool in your toolkit to loosen the back axle get out a dirty great socket spanner instead so when you need to loosen it at the roadside its way to tight for the pathetic tool in the toolkit?

MOTORCYCLISTS MUST ALWAYS CARRY
Tying wire
Duct Tape.

Nuthin' wrong with KTM toolkits.
I dunno if it's been mentioned, but a pair of quality vice grips are very handy. Not only can they be used as a spanner, you can use 'em as an emergency gear shifter or to hold things together...

**Wolf** · 6th December 2007, 11:14

Tools.

As my bike didn't have the tool kit when I got it, I've had no choice re assembling my own.

I carry a 1/2" ratchet drive with a 1/2-1/4" adapter and a selection of sockets in addition to a small selection of decent-quality combination (open-end/ring) spanners. My screwdriver is an "L" shaped bit driver and I have a selection of hex bits in my kit along with slot and phillips bits - it makes a great screwdriver-and-allen-key.

Still lacking a few essential tools (like a plug socket) and I'm planning on getting 3 "ring-spanner/tyre iron" combinations (2x22mm and 1x19mm) to cut down on weight/bulk (rather than carrying three large spanners and a set of tyre irons).