The Stuff

Much of the stuff that I've ordered for the bike in South America has arrived. In the picture above are the light mounts for the PIAA 1100X, that arrived a couple of weeks ago, from Lumalink. The mounts have been custom made to fit the R1200GS on the front forks. Another thing that just arrived from RKA Luggage http://www.rka-luggage.com/A06%20Liners/R1200GS/R1200GStrunk.html is a liner bag for the top box (not in the picture). Some of the other things in the picture are: a Brake Caliper Lock with built in motion sensor alarm from XENA, Stainless Steel Foot Pegs from Pivot Pegz, much better than the stock ones, a Universal Solar Charger for electronic devices from Solio, an Air Pump from CyclePump. There are very few places to get air for your tires in the Andes Mountains. Also the Throttle Lock from Kaoko (lower left), Cylinder Head Guards from Touratech (upper right). And probably the most important item is the S.P.O.T. Emergency Personal Locator. Other things like camping equipment, tent, sleeping bag, sleeping bag pad, will also be part of the trip, although most of the camping equipment is already in Chile. The only thing I will take down from here is the one person tent that I bought from Eureka Tents pictured below. It only weighs 2 lb, 9 oz.

Another little piece of equipment that I just ordered, is a new Digital Camera from Nikon. A brandy new Nikon D300, said to be the best digital camera on the market at this time. http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d300.htm I'm phsyked about this one! It's a serious 12.3 MegaPixels of picture taking machine. There's going to be some very spectacular scenery on this trip, so I hope to be able to get some great shots with this camera.