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Okay - I never in a million years suggested anyone is over compensating or paranoid. And who made any assumptions that you are overweight? I'm saying that people in general make very specific choices with regard to the things they feel may be a threat to their well being. Some choose to carry...

But I think you simply fail to see my point about an individual's perceived assessment of threat. Life is rife with perceived dangers, but they are often unique to the individual. Nearly everyone in my family dies of cancer or diabetes. None, throughout as many generations as I know of, have...

Not ignorant. Honest. Everyone makes decisions and preparations to guard themselves against the threats they feel are most real––for them. There are a myriad of things I think are likely to punch my clock, a deadly encounter with another human or animal not among them. Truthfully, I just don't...

Everything is relative. By this logic, I arguably travel to far more remote places than you do. My preferred method of travel, as it has been for the better part of a couple decades, is a bicycle. I use a 4WD vehicle to access my remote starting point where I offload a bicycle and travel where...

Do you have the GPX route file for the TAT or just a map with the route listed on the file?

I made the choice to replace my Drift HD Ghost with the new 4K Sony camera. We'll see how it goes. I really liked my Ghost over the GoPro...by far.

Well, sure. The rogue stick and unexpected crash have potential to damage anything. I am speaking primarily to simple mechanical failure. It is possible to almost eliminate most mechanical failures with good maintenance and care. I can literally go tens of thousands of miles without on-trail...

One of my pals did a similar route around Tahoe a few years ago. Beautiful area and 200 miles is a nice length of a ride. Not too long, not too short. Easy to carry all the necessary food supplies. That's my favorite distance. It's cool it also coincides with the distance around Tahoe. I hope he...

Derailleurs suffer catastrophic failures for really only three reasons, two of them very avoidable. In order of most common: - Bent hanger. Riders often neglect to understand the importance of inspecting the alignment of a derailleur hanger. These things are easily bent, but easily inspected...

Bleeding brakes on the trail isn't going to happen. A typical bleed kit is pretty big to portage around. If a brake fails for some reason, the common solution is to unbolt the caliper, zip-tie it to the bike frame or fork and carry on without one stopper. I did forget to mention that I ALWAYS...

For me, this topic begins with good bike maintenance. If you can't go 200-500 miles without some sort of mechanical issue, your bike is in terrible shape. I can ride for thousands of miles with little more than a few flat tires here and there. I break about one spoke per 30,000 miles on average...

I've got about 16,000 miles in my C3 and C3 Pro helmets. I rode through Colorado's worst rains in a century with my C3 and through 118 degree temps in Baja. They work. I'm a fan, for sure. I will admit the ventilation could be better, but it's not bad. Three of us at the office use the C3 Pro...

To further this within the construct of the main topic, while I don't typically mind if others do or do not carry in the backcountry, I'm not always wild about traveling with others who carry if I don't know their level of proficiency. I won't travel with one particular friend because, well, I...

It often seems like quality customer service is a thing of a bygone era. I love it when I encounter service that goes way above and beyond. I'm 1200 miles into a three week, 2500 mile motorcycle ride through Colorado. I hit the ugly rains that rolled into Colorado last week and noticed my new...

And there's the rub. Many gun advocates are quick to defend ALL gun owners as to do otherwise implies that gun restrictions might be necessary. Every year while using my local trails near Prescott I will have to stop dead in my tracks to make sure I'm not riding into the path of a bullet...

I travel by truck, motorcycle and bicycle. The only thing that makes it on every trip regardless of the conveyance is: My Sea to Summit Pillow: http://www.seatosummit.com/product/?item=Aeros+Pillow+Ultra+Light+&o1=0&o2=0&o3=574-48 Or, my trusty Nalgene bottle, Swiss Army knife I've had since I...

Those last few posts are edging towards the fine line that gets these threads closed, which would really be a shame.

I don't know that I'd use the ezHitch on a horizontal dropout. The trailer is simply trying to pull the wheel out of the dropout whereas pedaling force is trying to force the wheel into the frame.

As a motorcycle journalist, and former Africa Twin owner, I'm still waiting by the mailbox for useful details to be delivered. So far, all of these mini media releases have been unsubstantiated teases. With regard to the parallel twin hints, that's not bad news. Parallel configurations can...

From what I've been told, the XT1's EVF is considerably better than that of the XE-1. I do find that I feel that same slight disconnect with the actual image that you speak of. I feel the "blackout" period between shots is noticeable, particularly when shooting action shots in the continuous...