Travelling With The Missus

[Big_Dave]

Just an aside you blokes... How many of you ride with your missus? I am extremely fortunate that I have a wife who loves riding just as much as I do... In all these years, thru monsoon rain, hail, ice, and snow she's never complained and is always keen to go on our next adventure.

Now don't get me wrong I love her to bits, she's gorgeous, thankfully has terrible taste in men given I have a head like a vandalised bus seat and tolerates all of my many shenanigans.... Many many shenanigans. Anyhow, no matter if Touratech made a London bus sized top box and A380 sized panniers I'd still end up with 3 t shirts and a pair of shorts... The rest would be taken up by the innumerable and not up for negotiation, beauty products that accompany us everywhere.

Just today I observed a small part of her toolkit... a small part of pictured below. All manner of lotions and potions, jars and bottles... Even brushes of some sort, which I once made the mistake of using to clean bike parts with.... The doctor said my recovery is going well and I should be able to walk normally in a year or so

The joys of travelling two up. I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[Rod Page]

Great post, I'm still laughing.
I ended up getting a bike for my wife. She rode like a demon, as many who follow this site can attest.

 

[DavidFL]

I recall a my first bike trip in Laos with the previous GF Happy Go Lucky.
A gem of a gal & fun to travel with, a capacity to drink + an amazing singer...but all good things sometimes have to come to an end.

We packed the Africa Twin with a large top box - that's all you / we get for luggage dear. Everything has to fit in the there.
I packed my minimal gear on the bottom & left her to out her gear on top, stressing that we needed to travel light & didn't need all the make up & beauty gear you use for working, singing at night, because you wont be working & we are on a motorbike adventure holiday.

Loh & behold then I struggled to lift the top box to put it on the bike.
Forced to investigate I noted the usual glass jars of cream, & giant bottles of shampoo & conditioner were packed, plus shoes.
NO No you cant take these. We don't need them darling, just take a few small things in plastic. NO GLASS JARS or multiple spare shoes.
Out they went .

So off we went. Ride to Chiang Khong nice & easy, & put the bike on a boat to sail down to Pak Beng with a few mates.

We arrived in Pak Beng, unloaded the bike & the next day set of up the old bumpy stony Pak Beng - Oudom Xai road.
At the first drink & food stop - only about 29 kms out I might add, the GF takes off her jacket & I can hear the glass containers rattling.
OH NO. OH YES , she had filled the pockets of her jacket with the glass jars of cream + a pair of bloody shoes! A good part of the excess "unwanted: luggage had only been redistributed.

Then there was another time in Nan she packed her gear in the top box last & put in the dried squid.
Back in Chiang Mai everything reeked of smelly dried squid when the top box was opened.

Oh well.

 

[blackb15]

I recall a my first bike trip in Laos with the previous GF Happy Go Lucky.
A gem of a gal & fun to travel with, a capacity to drink + an amazing singer...but all good things sometimes have to come to an end.

We packed the Africa Twin with a large top box - that's all you / we get for luggage dear. Everything has to fit in the there.
I packed my minimal gear on the bottom & left her to out her gear on top, stressing that we needed to travel light & didn't need all the make up & beauty gear you use for working, singing at night, because you wont be working & we are on a motorbike adventure holiday.

Loh & behold then I struggled to lift the top box to put it on the bike.
Forced to investigate I noted the usual glass jars of cream, & giant bottles of shampoo & conditioner were packed, plus shoes.
NO No you cant take these. We don't need them darling, just take a few small things in plastic. NO GLASS JARS or multiple spare shoes.
Out they went .

So off we went. Ride to Chiang Khong nice & easy, & put the bike on a boat to sail down to Pak Beng with a few mates.

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We arrived in Pak Beng, unloaded the bike & the next day set of up the old bumpy stony Pak Beng - Oudom Xai road.
At the first drink & food stop - only about 29 kms out I might add, the GF takes off her jacket & I can hear the glass containers rattling.
OH NO. OH YES , she had filled the pockets of her jacket with the glass jars of cream + a pair of bloody shoes! A good part of the excess "unwanted: luggage had only been redistributed.

Then there was another time in Nan she packed her gear in the top box last & put in the dried squid.
Back in Chiang Mai everything reeked of smelly dried squid when the top box was opened.

Oh well.

David
You can't live with them,you can't live without them Very funny I enjoyed reading it.
Safe riding
Paul