If you were going on a long ride

If you were going on a long trip across a state on your old bike, what would you take along with you for roadside repairs? Extra coil? Plugs? Good looking female hitchhiker?

cell phone, cables , plugs. tire patch kit. rim protectors, tools, quart of oil, duct tape.Only thing I have ever had break was my cables

peter1958 wrote: cell phone, cables , plugs. tire patch kit. rim protectors, tools, quart of oil, duct tape.Only thing I have ever had break was my cables

plus replacement fuses and a credit card

The above mentioned tire repair kit with CO2 cartidges or pump along with a tire pressure guage and fuses.
I have never needed to swap out plugs or coils while on the road but could not hurt if you have room in your dry bag.. I did have a speedo cable break on a long ride. Actually found a dealrer with one in stock next day!.
Other Items to Consider:
- Good tool kit with basics.
- Vise Grips.
- Multi tool knife
- Flashlight, preferably a head lamp like a Black Diamond or Petzl.
- Cotter pins for rear wheel axle nut and rear brake stay
- Duc Tape or Gorilla Tape
- Spare Fuel Line
-- Zip Ties of varying lengths.
- Spare turn signal and tail light/brake light bulbs
- Oil(already mentioned)
- Chain Lube
I know that some of these items aren't exactly tools but come in real handy and in a sense are like tools, expecially the Zip Ties and Duc Tape. .

How you guys haul all this stuff around??? i made a little tray for under my seat but other than that i dont have any way to store anything else... The most i can fit in mine is a few tools. and extra piece of wire. fuses, zip ties and thats about it.

I rode my 78 KZ650 all over the U.S, Canada and Mexico, put over 150,000 ,miles on it and the only items I took was the stock tool kit.

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationHow many miles are we talking? I've never felt the need to carry any extra stuff other than the stock tool kit, a few extra fuses, and a tiny little Mag-Lite Solitaire flashlight that fits in the tool kit (see eBay pic below), and a cell phone. I generally don't ride more than 200-250 miles from home, so I guess if I was going on a really long ride I would take more supplies. Ed

Depend's on what state in Texas you take a trailer.
From my house it'd take me at about 5.5 hour's
to get out of Texas the shortest way going east.
go west it's more like 12 + hour's

I did long rides, 10,000+ mile USA four corner tour on the KZ1000 in 1990 and 1991 in 13 days time each, plus many 3000-5000 mile rides besides those. I took tire tools, extra tubes, duct tape, wire, extra oil, plugs, spare master link, tools like a vice grip and better and more extensive set of basic tools, extra headlight, spare 2.5 gallons of gas plus other items that elude me. Plenty of spare fuses ect for the possible fuse failure from the bad clips.
It's amazing what you find on the road, get a flat tire, you would "think" back in 1990 tubes would be on every street corner, but no. Bring your own or you are stranded for days. All this stuff saved my bacon a few times. Kind of strange to most changing a headlight at 2AM on interstate 95 in Richmond, Virginia, or changing my own tube in the rear from a flat in Ft Lauderdale, FL in a Motel 6 parking lot, changing a burnt 20A fuse outside Chicago, and plugs on the side of The Pennsylvania Turnpike, running out of gas at least two times and simply fill with the can. This is what I did back in the day, now with modern motorcycles I don't take anything, but back with the KZs I took stuff with me and don't regret it one bit.

I take,,,
map
flashlight
vice grips
tire irons
adjustable
tube x 1
co2 kit
warm clothes
smokes
booze
cash
cretid card
some times a tent and a sleeping bag
fishing rod
shotgun
i always take 20 bic lighters

Not near as far as Ron unfortunately, but 650 miles point to point on a H1 triple with nothing but a helmet and the clothes on my back, and and three 1400 mile round trips with the above plus my 2nd wife and a bag with our clothes in it on a Yamaha 920RH. I'd probably carry a tire repair kit and a couple of tire irons, along with the factory tool kit, if I was going for a long ride now.

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