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View Poll Results: Will you stay at the Blairsville Holiday Inn for the meet in Suches GA May 8-10?
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Old 01-10-2009, 07:05 PM   #1
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Well I'm not sure I actually may need it...I plan on getting the Cortech Tail bag you had/Plus the Saddle bags...Obviously you have first hand experience...How much shit can those things hold??
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Old 01-10-2009, 07:10 PM   #2
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Well I'm not sure I actually may need it...I plan on getting the Cortech Tail bag you had/Plus the Saddle bags...Obviously you have first hand experience...How much shit can those things hold??
A SHIT TON. I had more than enough stuff for my entire trip. you should be completely fine... I didn't really have much packed in the tail bag... I had my laptop and just some cords and external hd. the saddle bags had my clothes, shoes, toiletries...

but I severely over packed... I'd pack 2 shirts, a pair of shorts, a pair of tennis shoes, some underwear, 3 or 4 pair of socks, and that's about it... if I were to do that entire trip again... as everywhere I stayed I had access to a washer and dryer.

after all... all that weight could mean the diffrence between a sick wheelie to show off... and looping it 800 miles from home...
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A SHIT TON. I had more than enough stuff for my entire trip. you should be completely fine... I didn't really have much packed in the tail bag... I had my laptop and just some cords and external hd. the saddle bags had my clothes, shoes, toiletries...

but I severely over packed... I'd pack 2 shirts, a pair of shorts, a pair of tennis shoes, some underwear, 3 or 4 pair of socks, and that's about it... if I were to do that entire trip again... as everywhere I stayed I had access to a washer and dryer.

after all... all that weight could mean the diffrence between a sick wheelie to show off... and looping it 800 miles from home...
Lol. I'll def keep that in Mind, MY Only issue is, I'm thinking about Riding down to Suches, Then going to Myrtle Bike week to meet up with my buddies going to that...so I'd be on the bike for about a week...but I'm sure I can suffice and just find a place to wash my shit somewhere.
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OR... just get the address of the hotel... SHIP your stuff you're gonna take to Myrtle... then when you get there... ship the stuff you brought to Suches back... and take the Myrtle stuff with ya.
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Your always a thinker Ebbs...
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I learned alot on that indy trip about road trips on 2 wheels... not to say there isn't A LOT I still need to learn... but there was alot of realizations while out there. mainly about packing
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these are the bags I've been looking at

http://www.twistedthrottle.com/trade...tview/922/139/
http://www.magsbags.com/journeybag.html
http://www.wolfmanluggage.com/Tail/BetaRearBag.html
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Old 01-10-2009, 08:03 PM   #8
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I learned alot on that indy trip about road trips on 2 wheels... not to say there isn't A LOT I still need to learn... but there was alot of realizations while out there. mainly about packing
When you're small like me, packing is simple.

This is my three day weekend backpack. Three changes of clothes, extra shoes, swimsuit, a couple of extra shirts, socks......all in one bag.



My ex, who's 6'2" took twobackpacks for all his stuff (he packs more than I do and had his bags stack on top of each other (no pic).

I have a hard tail bag I'll be using for the Suches trip.
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Another choice that I'm looking at, looks like the twisted throttle bag, but $50 less

http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com...-Tail-Bag.aspx

Found it cheaper at dennis kirk

http://www.denniskirk.com/1/1/121175...g-1001791.html


And another great place to meet is the harley place right over the deleware memorial bridge. Plus it would be kinda funny to tell the harley crowd that we are shooting down to GA for the weekend.
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