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Hey guys. Finally ready to go. Leaving my home in Nova Scotia tomorrow morning and hoping to cross over into maine and set up camp by dark. I have to be home by Aug 25 but from now until then I'm all adventure. Here's a photo of my bike Willow, she looks really loaded but all the gear and cases...
Hey Azman,
I wish I could, but I'm a documentary filmmaker so big part of the trip is having a camera, lenses, laptop and harddrives with me all the time.
Hey 650 Skull. Thanks for the advice. Going to do the tank bag and the softbag backrest for sure! but I have some breakable/valuable/water sensitive things I'm traveling with so I think I should try my hardest to make plastic cases work. Also hoping they would slow down theft of the most...
Hey guys,
Planning a pretty big trip on my 78' Special, I've gotten a lot of great advice from the forum about how to prepare myself and the bike for the journey. The biggest thing that is stressing me out right now is how to mount my luggage. I'm pretty committed to using 1520 Pelican cases...
Thank you all very much for your help. I'm going to start working on the bike on Tuesday. Can't wait to get into it! I'm sure I'll have more questions along the way!
Both Bronsons are badass!
Purplezinger - Thanks for the recommendation. I'll need some new tires for this trip for sure.
emzdogz - I'm hoping to do blog updates along the way. If I can actually get that off the ground I will post a link here for sure!
This is exactly what I'm looking for!
Posting in this forum is the most productive thing thats happened for my trip preparation so far. Thank you so much for your help!
_MC6_ - These cases are exactly what I'm looking for. Do you have any tips on how I should go about mounting them or how...
Hello everyone,
I'm 26 years old and two summers ago I bought my first Motorcycle. It's a 1978 XS650 Special and it seems to be in good shape. This summer (mid july) I'm hoping to take five or six weeks and circumnavigate the USA traveling from my home in Nova Scotia Canada along the...