Ask yourself this. When you set up your bike when you put your panniers on and your gear on, before you did it,

did you look at your bike and say, okay, where am I going to put my water, how much water do I need to store,

where am I going to put my extra fuel, where am I going to put my oil? Before you assembled everything on your bike, or did you do what most people do?

You equipped your bike all up, you stood back and looked at it and thought, wow, that looks really cool.

Now, where can I put my oil? Where do I store my water? And if I need extra fuel, where am I going to put that?

Well, if you consider the weight and bulk of liquids, not to mention the challenge of the leak-proof containers,

and keeping those containers on the bike fastened

the bike so they're still there when you actually need them.

Maybe this should have been our first consideration when we started laying things out rather

than our last. If you can imagine for a second, going for a ride in an area

where you are going to be out for two days and you cannot get water. You're going to have to carry

all your water for two days. Average temperatures, no extreme desert heat, nothing like that.

Well, according to the Mayo Clinic, women will need around 4.5 liters or 1.2 U.S.

gallons for those two days. A man will require a little bit more around 6

liters or just over 1.5 U.S. gallons for those two days. Weight-wise, that means you're

carrying another 10 to 13 pounds or 4.4 to 6 kilograms of water alone.

That's on top of everything else you have on your bike, all those other things that you thought you needed to take with you on the adventure.

Keep in mind as well, this is drinking water.

This is not cooking water and it's not washing water.

I mean, you know, if you're into those things when you're riding your motorcycle,

cooking and washing.

So imagine now you've got an extra 13 pounds or 6 kilograms of

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