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Old 08-16-17, 08:35 PM
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What are the necessary travel gears?

I need help to choose travel accessories for my journey. So, anyone can tell which are important?
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Old 08-16-17, 08:57 PM
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Where are you going? How long? What season (s)? What do you have now? Solo or with someone? Camping, hotels, or?
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Originally Posted by aaronbutler
I need help to choose travel accessories for my journey. So, anyone can tell which are important?
What exactly are " travel accessories" ?
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Total of two posts. This was the first:

Travel accessories are such important things when we are going for a journey. Laptop, mobile, chargers, earphones are the general things that need to be available during journey.
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Seeing as he has written an article about it somewhere I wonder why he's asking?
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Originally Posted by aaronbutler
I need help to choose travel accessories for my journey. So, anyone can tell which are important?
no problem; glad to help!

these are extremely important.
those are not as important.
some others almost but not quite.

for an inspiring example, here's a man
who knows how to accessorize:


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Old 08-17-17, 02:44 AM
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'Accessory'...

'A thing which can be added to something else in order to make it more useful, versatile, or attractive.'


With regard to a bicycle, I reckon this would include such things as a saddle.
Brakes too perhaps.
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Old 08-17-17, 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Timequake
I swear to god, the ability to think for one's self simply doesn't exist anymore.
While I agree with you, I think this is yet another troll, or a shill who wants to post links but cannot because of his post count..
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I think the necessary travel gears are in between about 20 to 100 gear inches. In general I would say at least a dozen of them is best.

A really good accessory is a touring bike.

Glad to help.
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Give a newbie a break.
But yea I can't tell if he's talking about tents, cassettes, or what color sunglasses match the color of his bicycle.
OP, more info on what you're asking. Please
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
While I agree with you, I think this is yet another troll, or a shill who wants to post links but cannot because of his post count..
This ^^

Quick Google search confirms.
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Glad to help. Get a few of these, some of those and a couple of them over there.

If you narrow your question, I'll try to narrow my response.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
While I agree with you, I think this is yet another troll, or a shill who wants to post links but cannot because of his post count..
Dang. I was all set to drop some semi-relevant knowledge to make myself appear knowledgeable about that which so many here are better equipped to answer. *sigh*
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Based on the subject line, I actually took it to mean that gear range ... like how low should you go in order to haul all your stuff up hills.
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Originally Posted by aaronbutler
I need help to choose travel accessories for my journey. So, anyone can tell which are important?
Yes
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English may not be OP's first language. Let's give him a chance and see if he responds with a clarification.
Originally Posted by tramptrade
Quick Google search confirms.
Link?
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I haven't done any significant touring yet, probably due to a lack of gears. Right now I have three in the front and seven in the back. I'd love to take my laptop along so I can write a monetized blog post about laptops, but I've never owned one.

My question is this: Can anyone tell me which laptops have the most/best gears for touring?
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