welcome back to my channel as i've received a lot of questions about my luggage setup
i thought i'd make a short video to show you how i set up my bike for trail and camping
what we see here is my everyday trails set setup i run a small craga 10 liter
on the back of my bike at all times just on that little rack there
and let's have a look at the kroger and see what's inside i really do like these bags
they're nice and simple waterproof and they're really secure so the first thing i've got in there
it's a spare rear tube uh it's a heavy duty one that is a bit bulky i've got my first aid kit
i always keep that i always carry a large roll of toilet paper not just for myself but it's
very useful to sell to your mates in the bush and a tourniquet that goes to my first aid kit
all right what else we've got in here digging around oh yeah my tools so i carry a small tool
kit to make sure i can fix any flats or anything that might go wrong and the final thing i have
in there is a front tube 21 inch tube and there you have it that's my everyday trail setup on the
back of the bike now for camping either overnight or multiple days multiple nights this is my setup
it's the giant lip coyote uh tail bag i've had it for quite a number of years been on quite a
few bikes and it's had a hard time but it's still looking good what i like about these
bags is they're really easy to secure and once they're secured to the bike they stay there
and don't really move around much i like that they're small and fit the contours of the bike
they don't hang out like pannier racks and soft bags i find they work well for me all right let's
have a look inside and see what i carry and how i pack it the bags itself are held on by these
straps in the middle and the two lower straps access is by this one main zipper because of
the horseshoe shape it can be a little fiddly to undo at times but once it's on the bike it's good
you can see here is how i pack and this is really how you need to pack you need to have something
in the middle that's about that size that fits the shape of the horseshoe that's my inflatable
air mattress and i find it fits that space quite well in the right hand side here i've got my tent
it's a macpac apollo tent and it fits nicely down that side on the other side i have a dry bag
with my clothes in it we'll have a look at all this stuff separately soon i've got my small
cooking pot and stove there in the right hand side down the bottom carry a canteen with spare water
about two liters there uh on the left-hand side i've got my food supplies now i didn't really have
any camping stuff left over so i'm just throwing some cans in there to show you that it can hold
a bit of food and sometimes that's actually what i take on camping trips and you'll see here that
the tools and spares that i had in the kroger are just shoved down the bottom and try to keep all
the heavy stuff down low just to help the handling so i'm just going to have a look inside my dry bag
with the clothes that i take for this was for a two to three day ride so i've got a towel
just a small little camping towel i've got just some very light uh shoes just to wear around camp
i've got some lightweight pants what else i got in here i have a t-shirt to wear so
this is disclosed to wear around the camp so you're not wearing your riding gear
because spare pair of shorts also double as swimmers into somewhere nice to swim
and just the usual socks and undies and i keep these all in a dry bag just in
case something happens and water gets in but that's pretty much it that's my camping setup
for probably two or three days now you might have noticed that that's not everything you
need for camping i do carry a backpack with some things in it so let's look at that now i like to
carry lightweight things that i may need more regularly in my backpack so as you can see here
my backpack has my three liter water bladder i've got toilet paper first aid kit a small light
sleeping bag pillow got some snacks there's a snake bite bandage i've got a toothpaste
i've got a folding saw pump i've got a little bag there of fire starters some sunscreen and a water
purifier now if i'm going for a longer ride or i simply want to carry more stuff all i do is take
my tent out of the giant loop and that frees up one whole side where i can put more clothes food
whatever it is this bigger sleeping bag doesn't matter it fits in there and i just put the tent
on the back of the rack as you see here still plenty of room everything's tight and secure
and rides well before you go strapping luggage to your bike you might want to learn from my mistakes
and cover your plastics with some clear film or something else just to protect them from
scratches where the bags rub i'm running an aftermarket exhaust and that meant taking off
the factory heat shield i wanted to retain that so this is how i did it i simply bolted it to another
heat shield and now it looks factory and protects the luggage from all the heat of the exhaust so
there you have it that's how i set up and run the luggage on my bike thanks for watching and
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