Best Way to Organize Luggage on Adventure Motorcycle

Minimalist on a Motorcycle Trip - Is that even possible? Yes, and you will be surprised how easy everything goes. In this video, I will tell you 5 Tips that will change the way you travel completely.

we don't need much when we travel for a day or two, but long trips must be different, right? Of course, you are going to spend weeks and months out of your home and you will need a lot of stuff.

Well... in theory yes, but in practice NO! I know that it will be hard to believe it, but with the 5 tips that I promised you will be able to see things from a little bit different angle.

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[rogerbradbury]

Good advice. I haven't done any really long trips but I've gone to a lot of motorcycle rallies. I leave the DSLR and lenses at home and take a small, light, mirrorless camera with kit lens; they can be found secondhand for not too much money. I carry a set of mess tins, and as well as providing eating bowls they are filled with pain killers, meds, loo roll, sewing kit etc. I'll take enough meds to last the length of the rally plus a day and all the body maintenance stuff is in one place. Anything that can serve more than one purpose is great. I have hard panniers; ancient fibreglass Cravens that are waterproof but not too heavy and I use a tank bag too. I have a list which I print out, cross out anything I'll not need on a particular trip, then tick off items as I gather them. This also helps me not to take two things to do one job.

[gopirao]

Hey Pavlin, I am not in any way a seasoned motorcyclist like you. I ride, and that's it. But your advice about minimalist travel is amazing. My wife is queen of light travel. Your advice sounds exactly like hers. Now you know why I listened to you with great attention🤭
Thank you

[laszlobauer]

I cannot tell you how useful this advice is. Thanks to you and your packing style, me and my wife can go on any trip using my topbox. Usually we both have everything there including some of Dima's homemade "fuel", clothes and rain gear. All in a 50 liter topbox for 2 people. Thank you.

[carsyoungtimerfreak]

How very true. I use a RT as a daily. The bike rides so much nicer with the panniers off and just a small tankbag. Same is true for a Pan European. It is not just the wieght of the panniers (even when empty), they also make the bike more bulky and are certainly not help when you are filtering. The Police RTs do have much smaller panniers!

[franckbrunie]

On the various 2-weeks offroad trips I did in Africa, my luggage was only 6 kg. So one additional tip is to share items with others that travel with you as a small group. Like tools, tubes, common spare parts, pharmacy, some spare items (like motorcycling gogles). As camping gear, we only took a silk liner, to sleep anywhere local, and tape to fix holes in local mosquito nets !

[MrMicherman]

Pavlin thanks to you I just bought a croissant 40L from 21'Brothers and in a few months I'm buying a small Honda Crf 300 Rally...
Thank you for being you... ;))) Greetings from Poland

[allanb]

We bought a Vespa GTS 125 in the UK and my wife and I rode it to our house in central Portugal. We had a front rack which was not needed and had everything we needed, all packed under the seat or in the back bag that came with the scooter. Two people.. and one of us was a woman!!! and we wanted for nothing, okay we stayed in hotels but I would be surprised if we had 10kg. It was fantastic, I was 66 years old at the time. But he is right, we have a Vivaro campervan and pack a minimum of stuff in that too, it's a good philosophy, less is more.

[jarrodrunciman]

Stumbled across your channel. some great advice mate. Thanks!

[VikingBagsYT]

Considering how many adventure riders and campers struggle to pack what they need without weighing down their bikes, the tips you provided will help ease their struggle significantly.

[samguapo]

Before I acquired my first motorcycle (500cc Enfield), I spent months watching videos and learning everything I needed to know from channels like this :) Esp. this. Real on the ground, no frills, info.

[upnorthrider]

Awesome topic, I’m a minimalist by nature, I do a lot of hiking where weight is always important… this crosses over to motorcycling too
Less is best
Cheers 😎

[billfulas]

Hi Pavlin!Congratulations!You are back!

[maakamakana]

I am 70yrs old and planning to ride from Bangkok to UK and back again...I have seen adventure bikes but they are huge, even though I am rider of 55yrs now, , ..I want Interceptoe and little luggage, , I am not tourist..I am a bushman / Biker wanting to test himself on one last ride...you advice is helpful..thanks

[vincentvangogh]

absolutely brilliant video i love your no nonsense videos i am a minimalist it has to be the way

[ichbinmartin]

Hi Pavlin. Your advices are always great, (but also this time not for me, we are almost on the same wave). I always packed two bags for any trip, because they are lockable, on both the old and the new motorcycle. I don't even have a tank bag, don't have body bag. I have documents and money like you, always inside of my jacket. The heaviest thing I carry is probably a disc lock and a large SLR camera. I don't have a camera or a drone, I don't like moving pictures, I know they are full of them on YouTube and better than what I would shoot. I mainly want to enjoy the trip and when I want to go somewhere, leave the motorcycle parked in peace, because there is nothing to steal from it. When I was young, I was a tramp, I slept under the stars, I didn't have a tent even then, so at our age I don't consider it any adventure anymore. In addition, I have a road motorcycle, so we sleep in hotels so that after the evenings we can still sit somewhere in the city and enjoy this atmosphere. We also went camping, again we only managed to pack in side panniers on two motorbikes.
I have really strange feelings when I see how uniform all motorcyclist are. SUV motorcycle (GS or alternative), many cases, tank bag, a lot of things attached to it, enlarged windscreen, mandatory navigation, some even brag about how they buy sim cards in every country so they can use navigation in their mobile phone (ok, navi is super, but then people stop watching the country and road signs and look only to the small display). They are all dressed in those universal suits and they have road reflective vests on them, that is, except GS owners, they have BMW suits, hehehe. And then I'm just waiting for when those loaded several hundred kilos will start to hang out with men in their years. In the summer on the road, it even happened to me that an elderly man with a GS loaded in this way did not hold it and it fell while parking about 10 cm next to my brand new motorcycle.
The ease and carefreeness of traveling and individuality have completely disappeared. I apologize if I was too negative. But whether I look around me on the roads or on videos, photos, travelogues, it's really like you say.

[teneretraveller]

Good advice.
I copy all my documents and scan them so I can reproduce copies if need be if originals go missing.
And as good as gps is, I must pack my paper maps.
Good, important topic.
Safe, happy travels 👍

[TruBluTraveler]

You're absolutely right! It is indeed possible to travel with minimal baggage on a motorcycle, because I've done it for more than 5000 kms. It's safe, less to worry about, easy handling of the bike, more easy access to many places, and more importantly good for your motorcycle and your pocket!

[candro]

Hi Pavlin. I totally agree with you. For me, the hard paniers are necessary when traveling in "populated areas" as the main "enemy of man is the man". When going into country side (villages and off-road) one doesn't need antitheft protections. A big part of my limited long motorcycle trips weren't into the cities so, believed or not, some of my "saddlebags" were represented by plastic bags strapped with elastic cords on my motorcycle.

[samguapo]

Always good to listen to your tips here :)

[advmike]

I will be zip tying my tire irons to my frame. Thank you!