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Packing a bike for trips.

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Remember when packing for trips, not everything needs removed from bike and carried around long distances to the hotel rooms etc...

I realized this last night when I had to carry a HEAVY bag and other stuff from garage parking through Harrah's way down a long hall, ride elevator up a floor then carry it all down a LONG hall again, and this morning the same thing but in the other direction just as far to get to the wing again.

Let's see now.
50 packs of cheese, 4 rolls of Ritz crackers, large jar of peanut butter, canned chilli, canned Ravioli, and other similar items, all in the bottom of my main bag under the clothes.

Think maybe I could have left about 20 lbs of stuff out there on the bike last night perhaps LOL

I had all that stuff as part of my survival supplies for that 2 day bus ride out to San Jose, CA. to pick up the 95 1500. I ate lots of things I carried, that's just what was left over I have not ate yet and good for snacks on the road still or camping.
Perhaps it's time to repack the bag and just leave some stuff on the wing all the time, you think? :ROFL:

Riding the bus I needed it all packed in the bags to carry for when I changed buses of course, I just never took it out yet.

Now to find a nice desert area to camp a night or two and eat that stuff so I don't have to haul it around anymore LOL
 
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With the cheese and crackers you should pack a bottle of wine in there. That would make camping more fun.
 
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When I take trips in the summer my number one consideration for a room is:

"Is there parking at the door?"

If not... I keep looking!
 
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Nothing quite like those bottom level motels with parking outside the door.
 
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us385south wrote:
When I take trips in the summer my number one consideration for a room is:

"Is there parking at the door?"

If not... I keep looking!
The casinos don't put that consideration as they want you inside, that's why you have to walk a mile inside from the door. They run you into the MAZE so you can't find your way out. Hotel California, you can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave.
 
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You need a trailer Chromo! You can pack a lot more stuff in a trailer and you don't need to carry it in at night, just lock it up! You should look into that with the amount of riding you do..........

Are you retired?
 
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I stayed in a motel once. Had the bike right outside the window, and I was still nervous about it.

Every other time I have camped and the bike has been right beside me.
 
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I travel a lot on business with my GL-1200. Lots of overnite and 2-3 night trips here in Southern Calif. Most of my hotel choices are Hampton Inns. I generally choose them because they are reasonable business-class hotel that is also clean and predictable no matter where I go.

You don't have exterior doorways there, like the motels do. So the bike gets left in the parking lot, often with a cover on it, and I've not yet been "surprised" in the morning. (Knock on wood, somewhere).

Often the Hampton staff allow me to park it on the sidewalk right by or very near the entry doors. That way, even if the members of the staff don't have their eye directly on it, the impression is that you'd be more at risk messing with it, than some vehicle on the other side of the parking lot.

On personal travel, I've stayed at several motels, and the ground-floor, park-the-bike-at-the-door approach is hard to beat. Especially when your neighbors (motel residents, and neighbors of the town) are an unknown element.
 
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IF YOUR WORRIED ABOUT YOUR BIKE BEING STOLEN THEN PARK IT NEXT TO A HARLEY, THE HARLEY WILL COME UP MISSING BEFORE THE HONDA GOLDWING.......PROBLEM SOLVED......THATS WHAT I DO, THEN A LOT OF MY FRIENDS RIDE HARLEYS....NOW MY NEW BUNCH I RIDE WITH ARE WINGERS SO NOW I GOT TO FIGURE OUT ANOTHER STRATAGE
 
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desert wings wrote:
Need you some front row parking. Won't make a reservtion without it.
DW...

I know dat place! The Desert Oasis in Sanderson, Texas! A great place to lay over before heading north... right?
 
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jobe05 wrote:
You need a trailer Chromo! You can pack a lot more stuff in a trailer and you don't need to carry it in at night, just lock it up! You should look into that with the amount of riding you do..........

Are you retired?
I think you may be right.
Both 1500's now have a trailer hitch, I just never built or got a trailer yet. Though I do still have that brand new HF trailer I got about 2 years ago, put it together but never put a body on it yet. LOL

Though in this case since I rode a bus out to CA a trailer would not be any help on this trip.
Too big for carry on and only 50lbs limit for under the bus luggage lol
 
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us385south wrote:
desert wings wrote:
Need you some front row parking. Won't make a reservtion without it.
DW...

I know dat place! The Desert Oasis in Sanderson, Texas! A great place to lay over before heading north... right?
You got that right been trying to go back down there sence the morning I left.:action:
 
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MichiganWing wrote:
You took canned Chili and cheese packets as sustinence on a 2 day bus trip? You are a cruel CRUEL man! ;-)
Yep, and canned Ravioli and canned Spaghetti and Meat balls too LOL
I figured there may not have been any good food stops so I was ready for a picnic LOL

Not that Cruel, I did share a few things with others that looked hungry.
 
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I normally park in front of the room if doing the hotel thing, but like ya'll said those Casino hotels try to make it hard so you don't want to leave or run back and forth.
 
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desert wings wrote:
us385south wrote:
desert wings wrote:
Need you some front row parking. Won't make a reservtion without it.
DW...

I know dat place! The Desert Oasis in Sanderson, Texas! A great place to lay over before heading north... right?
You got that right been trying to go back down there sence the morning I left.:action:
That is a cool little motel... and I don't care what anyone says... I like Sanderson.

There are some cool old building in that town.
 
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newday777 wrote:
us385south wrote:
When I take trips in the summer my number one consideration for a room is:

"Is there parking at the door?"

If not... I keep looking!
The casinos don't put that consideration as they want you inside, that's why you have to walk a mile inside from the door. They run you into the MAZE so you can't find your way out. Hotel California, you can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave.

Manor House at Circus Circus. Just like a motel. Still have a little walk through the enterance to the block of rooms, but you can park your scoot outside your motel room, and say hi in the middle of the night through the window.
 
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readingracer wrote:
IF YOUR WORRIED ABOUT YOUR BIKE BEING STOLEN THEN PARK IT NEXT TO A HARLEY, THE HARLEY WILL COME UP MISSING BEFORE THE HONDA GOLDWING.......PROBLEM SOLVED......THATS WHAT I DO, THEN A LOT OF MY FRIENDS RIDE HARLEYS....NOW MY NEW BUNCH I RIDE WITH ARE WINGERS SO NOW I GOT TO FIGURE OUT ANOTHER STRATAGE
LOL! I do the reverse and use my GW cover on theHarley!
 
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This is the main reason we like the bags that go inside the panniers and top box. ( saddlebag and tour box). We pack a pair of socks and a pair of pants into small bags, either zip lock bags or even those skinny little bags to be found in supermarkets for putting loose vegetables and fruit into.We carry multiples of these in the bigger top box.
We each have one of the side bags and we rotate the clean underwear and T shirts etc as we go along, putting the dirty things into the top box, but not in the bag.
When we have a bunch of stuff needs washing, we go to a laundromat when we find one and set about washing the dirty stuff. That way we are not obliged to carry too much stuff un necessarily and whilst the stuff is washing and drying, we go do other shopping or looking around the place. We can be happily out on the road for two weeks and more and only have daily clothes and wash gear and a few bits in those side bags. Sure makes it easy to tote into hotel/ motel rooms. :cheesygrin:
 
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The bigger the Casino, the harder/longer it is to the room. I kind of feel like Cousin Jack sometimes, its cleaner in my tent going camping, then it is in some of the rooms.
 
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