Of course, as seems to be the case for the last few trips, I didn't have everything prepared early enough. It's 1:45 am on Friday, and I was planning to leave early in the morning - not happening any more. I'll leave in the afternoon. The good part is that I think I got everything wired up and working correctly. Valentine 1 and music and I can hear both.
It's tough to get everything ready on a new bike in only a few weeks. I got a lot of stuff done, but didn't have time to install the driving lights. I have the lightbar and the lights in a box here - wish I had them installed. Jesse is taking his sweet time getting my cases shipped. It's been 2 weeks since I ordered them - for something that was in stock, that's a damn long time. He might ship them tomorrow. Too late now, I'll be installing them after I come back. For now I went to Road Rider and got a Cortech tail bag:
Along with my Givi V46 topcase and the tankbag, this should provide enough space. The tailbag is getting things like tools, a bottle of oil, some water and some MRE's. And the fuel bottle and the tire pump. The Givi will get the clothes, laptop and other miscellaneous crap. I'm short on space on this trip - I generally try to leave the Givi empty, so I have a place to lock my helmet and gloves and in case I need to get something on the way and be able to transport it. Obviously that's not happening this time.
Anyways. I'm gonna go pack my clothes and go to sleep. I'll be posting updates to this thread as I go along. Anybody who's not going wanna plot various people's daily locations on a map? Use the Google Maps API, it's pretty easy. I'm too tired to set anything up for that right now.
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