04-30-2015, 12:59 AM
This is my traveller's bike:
![[Image: f520f70d9826c91733c7d439e08dc2fa.JPG]](https://cb1100forum.net/forum/uploads/imp/201504/f520f70d9826c91733c7d439e08dc2fa.JPG)
Windshield
A good windshield really helps not to get fatigued too much on longer trips. There are 2 important points to consider:
[li]form should be somehow aerodynamic,[/li] [li]mount angle not too steep.
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If your windshield is just flat and too steep mounted, it will cause buffeting and wind noise and does not really help. It took me a couple of times, to find the right position of my windshield.
Btw. I know the difference of riding with and without windshield and I wouldn't go out for a journey without a windshield.
And forget about these small flyscreens. They are more or less cosmetic.
Tank Bag
In the tank bag I carry things, which should be easily at hand during the ride: some drink, camera, gadgets, sunglasses, warm shirt...
I ride a Held tank bag, which is mounted with a belt in front and a velcro fastener, coming out between seat and tank. The bag is very easy to dismount for fueling and very gentle to the tank painting. I don't like magnetic tank bags, which definitely lead to scratches in some way.
Drybag
I use this yellow, 35 liter drybag from sw motech. It comes with belts for a very easy mounting to the rear seat, prolonged by my Fehling rear rack.
It's completely dry inside, carries my luggage for the whole week, is very fast to mount and unmount and comfortably to carry by hand, when walking from the bike to the hotel.
When at home or in the hotel room, it is very comfortable to pack from top like a normal travellers bag or sport bag, large opening.
Raining Gear
At the rear rack, below the yellow drybag, you may notice a small black drybag. This is a small 5 liter drybag, seperately mounted to the rack. It carries my raining gear. So if it starts to rain, I easily can pull out my gear to protect myself against the rain, which comes quite often in Germany.
I have a 2 piece raining gear, jacket and trousers, which I can pull over my leather easily. I don't like the one piece raining gear, as it's too acrobatic to me, to get into this.
Well, that's all for me.
When I go out for a day trip, I only use the tank bag and my raining gear at the rack like this:
![[Image: c4e2ded4a5526b3418f7fdcc58a6a824.JPG]](https://cb1100forum.net/forum/uploads/imp/201504/c4e2ded4a5526b3418f7fdcc58a6a824.JPG)
The bag with the raining gear is at the bike more or less all the time.
Navigation
Last not least, for me navigation has become an important assistant, to guide me a whole day along hundreds of kilometer of twisted back country roads.
I ride a ZUMO 660 at my handlebar:
![[Image: b385a75141aea4438e06ab60e45b92e4.jpg]](https://cb1100forum.net/forum/uploads/imp/201504/b385a75141aea4438e06ab60e45b92e4.jpg)
Basically I plan my routes using the software basecamp and a lot of maps on my pc at home or even in the hotel room. Then I send my desired route to my ZUMO which then is just used as a guide on my ride thru the country. It does not really calculate any route, as you would use it in a car. I plan the route, not my device.
However, sometimes I just press the `bring me home' button.
Big comfort during a ride is also the feature `where's the next gas station'.
Windshield
A good windshield really helps not to get fatigued too much on longer trips. There are 2 important points to consider:
[li]form should be somehow aerodynamic,[/li] [li]mount angle not too steep.
[/li]
If your windshield is just flat and too steep mounted, it will cause buffeting and wind noise and does not really help. It took me a couple of times, to find the right position of my windshield.
Btw. I know the difference of riding with and without windshield and I wouldn't go out for a journey without a windshield.
And forget about these small flyscreens. They are more or less cosmetic.
Tank Bag
In the tank bag I carry things, which should be easily at hand during the ride: some drink, camera, gadgets, sunglasses, warm shirt...
I ride a Held tank bag, which is mounted with a belt in front and a velcro fastener, coming out between seat and tank. The bag is very easy to dismount for fueling and very gentle to the tank painting. I don't like magnetic tank bags, which definitely lead to scratches in some way.
Drybag
I use this yellow, 35 liter drybag from sw motech. It comes with belts for a very easy mounting to the rear seat, prolonged by my Fehling rear rack.
It's completely dry inside, carries my luggage for the whole week, is very fast to mount and unmount and comfortably to carry by hand, when walking from the bike to the hotel.
When at home or in the hotel room, it is very comfortable to pack from top like a normal travellers bag or sport bag, large opening.
Raining Gear
At the rear rack, below the yellow drybag, you may notice a small black drybag. This is a small 5 liter drybag, seperately mounted to the rack. It carries my raining gear. So if it starts to rain, I easily can pull out my gear to protect myself against the rain, which comes quite often in Germany.
I have a 2 piece raining gear, jacket and trousers, which I can pull over my leather easily. I don't like the one piece raining gear, as it's too acrobatic to me, to get into this.
Well, that's all for me.
When I go out for a day trip, I only use the tank bag and my raining gear at the rack like this:
The bag with the raining gear is at the bike more or less all the time.
Navigation
Last not least, for me navigation has become an important assistant, to guide me a whole day along hundreds of kilometer of twisted back country roads.
I ride a ZUMO 660 at my handlebar:
Basically I plan my routes using the software basecamp and a lot of maps on my pc at home or even in the hotel room. Then I send my desired route to my ZUMO which then is just used as a guide on my ride thru the country. It does not really calculate any route, as you would use it in a car. I plan the route, not my device.
However, sometimes I just press the `bring me home' button.
Big comfort during a ride is also the feature `where's the next gas station'.