Motorcycle Touring: Everything You Need to Know
  Packing your motorcycle and living on the road can be a thrilling, exciting, and intimidating proposition. Whether it's going up to the lake, cross-country, or over international borders, motorcycle touring has become one of the hottest and fastest growing activities in the country.
In Motorcycle Touring: Everything You Need to Know, Dr. Gregory W. Frazier has compiled a volume of tips, tricks, and knowledge gained from his decades of touring experience, including four global circuits through Asia, Europe, Africa, and more.
Frazier covers the basics of choosing a motorcycle, maintenance tips and tools for roadside repairs, and packing supplies. Moving to more advanced touring concerns, such as international travel tips and laws, insurance and currency, and long-term trip planning, this is the perfect volume for riders at any level who wish to tour the world, or their own backyard, on two wheels.
Table of Contents
1. Touring by motorcycle
2. Alone or together
3. Equipment, pilot, and passenger readiness
4. Packing
5. Gizmos and gadgets
6. Keeping warm, dry and cool
7. Room and board
8. Stretching your money
9. Physical hazards
10. Survival on the road
11. Making friends
Appendix: reading resources
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