Touring Equipment

Oh, and should we copy your post to the Flounce thread? ;)

When it's raining and you just want to stay in your tent. I would never tour without something to read. Fuel the mind.

I suppose if I was touring alone this makes sense, otherwise just talk or play cards!

Josh.

Ditch book, and pick up a Kindle.

This is all.

You know he's almost righ, Josh.
Although there are some very light paperback editions, books are waste of space and an extra weight when travelling. And you need light to read them. An make sure it doesn't rain.

When it's raining and you just want to stay in your tent. I would never tour without something to read. Fuel the mind.

Take your Android phone. Watch porn.

But the battery will die in 5 minutes if he does.

The kindle is extremely flat making it easier to stow in a handlebar bag, take up a lots less space, and 3G signal mean I can go online when needed and buy more books.

Josh, ditch yourself and I'll replace you, I'm 77kg, should make your tour easier.

My 3G iPad ain't bad, but it's a toy at the end of the day. Prolonged reading of some websites can be tiring (pdfs and things stored in Instapaper are much better).
Battery lasts for a day of constant use and if you have any other devices, you can take one of those rechargeable universal batteries. Still, I like it. And iPad 2 is much lighter too.
Kindle is good for books and serious articles, iPad is more versatile, good for imbeciles like me who like things visual - apart from text - and games.

One paperback book is ok, but when you travel for longer and/or are easily distracted and bored, it's nice to have an access to many books and articles. Best thing to do (same as creating a playlist for your iPod) is to collect a bunch of interesting articles with illustrations to your Instapaper account for an offline reading - you can use it whenever there's no reception or you're on a plane.

Or why not take a pen and paper and write your own book?
In all seriousness....write down all the details of your day in the saddle...where you went, changes in weather, places you passed, people you met, wildlife you saw. Spend some time at the end of the day noting it down so that later you can put it together into something others can read as well as yourself.
You might be glad you did in years to come.

Or why not take a pen and paper and write your own book?

Take an iPhone and record it?
Or dictate it to your butler during a tea break in your tent (if you're from Kensington & Chelsea).

My attention span doesn't allow me to write at once more than I can contain in one* tweet*.

Take one book and trade in as required - if touring where used book stores exist - or garage sales.
What do the UKaires call garage sales, jumbles?

Or why not take a pen and paper and write your own book?
In all seriousness....write down all the details of your day in the saddle...where you went, changes in weather, places you passed, people you met, wildlife you saw. Spend some time at the end of the day noting it down so that later you can put it together into something others can read as well as yourself.
You might be glad you did in years to come.

Yep.

Also I would be scared of breaking an iPad or kindle if I dropped the bike/crashed/dry-bags leaked. It's pretty difficult to break a book (unless you crash into a fire). But kindle thread =====>

Take one book and trade in as required - if touring where used book stores exist - or garage sales.
What do the UKaires call garage sales, jumbles?

It's not going to work well in SE Asia.

Oh, car boot sales.

Yep.

Also I would be scared of breaking an iPad or kindle if I dropped the bike/crashed/dry-bags leaked. It's pretty difficult to break a book (unless you crash into a fire). But kindle thread =====>

I've got a titanium touring bike. Do you think I care?

^
wac

There's a lots of thing I'm scared of breaking if I suffer a fall on my bicycle, such as the derailleur hanger, the brake, the camera, the cooking stove, etc.

It's not going to work well in SE Asia.

Sorry, I missed that

Manga
Get a book that bears re-reading
I-Ching anyone?

To be honest, I'd be fine with just the views and people around me :-)

it will work well it SE Asia, wherever people travel over there, there are books to be traded/given/shared.

it will work well it SE Asia, wherever people travel over there, there are books to be traded/given/shared.

That would be my guess, but I've never been to the Far East.

You never been to Ipswich?

To be honest, I like to read bit more than Harry Potter and the Bible.

You never been to Ipswich?

Nope, you been to Transcona?

To be honest, I like to read bit more than Harry Potter and the Bible.

Read the Bible twice before I was 16, doesn't hold together, needs an editor.

what it need is a new first page stating that the characters in this book are purely fictional. Any similarities between them and real individuals are purely coincidental.

Read the Bible twice before I was 16, doesn't hold together, needs an editor.

tl;dr

To be honest, I like to read bit more than Harry Potter and the Bible.

you realise, there were travellers before the trust fund generation...