Initial impression of RX3 for a trail bike rider

[fjmartin]

My sleeping bag

[fjmartin]

I use two of these sacks to put in all of my people and motorcycle under clothing plus a couple spare set of gloves and such.

[fjmartin]

Finally here is a pic with all the camp stuff piled up. It doesn't include the two yellow bags of clothing. As you can see it's really a small pile.

So in all these items take up about 1 1/2 space of my Tourfella panniers and then I add my bike spares and a 64 oz steel water bottle and they are full. I usually put the mountain house freeze dried foods in the top box as they are light and I still have more room. The only that that is external to the boxes are the tent poles as they are just a little bit too long to fit in them but the clips connect it to the top of a pannier.

Hope this all helps

Joe

[vickytulla]

@fjmartin this is a excellent guide.... These water proof compressable bags are a must have for me now....

[vickytulla]

So I stumbled upon a profile of University friend and noticed he was in Wisconsin and I knew what I had to do so I loogged into CSC shooping cart.. and did some mandatory long awaited winter shopping...

so he recieved the goodies at his US hotel and would fly back to Pakistan in a week after next... YAY!!

[fjmartin]

That's awesome. One thing to check...look under your bike and make sure it has the mounts for the center stand. I was told by Steve that the mounts on the bike were actually there during manufacturing and then cut off. He asked Zongshen to leave them on so they could use it to put on a centerstand that CSC manufactures. So you might not have the mounts....better check before disappointment. Use this tutorial to help with finding the location and look of it: http://www.cscmotorcycles.com/Articles.asp?ID=288

[vickytulla]

oh yes I would require that tutorial... no doubt why I like this bike much is the way CSC introcued it first time and the way they support there customers.... I from othr part of the world have to buy it from themmm just becuase of that...

Yes mine has the center stand option intact... so I will be installing it soon !!

[vickytulla]

I am now planning to put a 19 in front wheel before summer kicks in...

[BlackBike]

This is getting good, stand should make your life so much easier!

[vickytulla]

http://www.chinariders.net/showthrea...449#post274449

Just bought this for pure dirt tracks I was missing... its LD450 Asia Wing..

Does any one knows any active discusion on this chinese bike going around here some where or some other active forum ?

[vickytulla]

I am now doing the second big change in the bike before summer adv touring starts.., I have bought a 19RIM from a junkyard, its healthy though, and a brand new 19' size tire of Daul purpose thread from Ralco (india)

I wonder if spokes will need to be replaced or if I can use the same set of spokes for 19' rim... taking it all to the RIM and spokes expret.. wil update soon ...

[vickytulla]

Wheel is back and ready same spokes worked for me... he just changed the lay out of spokes to wok with larger wheel...

[vickytulla]

So now the deval which wasa orignall dark grey (almost black) is now pure white..

Final Looks with 19' and new white decals...

[2LZ]

I keep eyeballing doing a 19' but have balked on it so far. I'm waiting for the 300cc big bore kit to be available here again. :-)

[Dualsport Chic]

Nice job on the paint - looks great!