Our Round-the-World Motorcycle Packing List

Packing for a round-the-world adventure or an overland jaunt? Here’s our tried and tested, used and abused, hard-earned kit list.

Packing for a never-ending round-the-world motorcycle ride wasn’t going to be easy. We started well overloaded and over-packed… and we’re still overloaded and over-packed today. It’s natural, everyone overpacks at home and either chucks it on the road or posts half of their stuff back. We’re still finding ways of doubling items up and sending stuff home. But here’s what we’re down to today.

Riding gear

We each have a lightweight, vented outer jacket and trousers. We removed the thermal and waterproof lining from each and left them at home.
Cheap throw-over waterproof jackets and trousers (around £15 per set)
Altberg military boots. They’re lightweight and act as both our riding and walking boots for hiking and trekking
One cold weather and one hot weather pair of gloves each
Neck scarf each
Helmet each

Click here for the Choosing your Adventure Riding Gear guide

Personal clothing

Sub Zero thermal down jacket. We use this under our motorbike jacket if it gets cold and can also use it when walking around towns or hiking. It has a double usage (hence why we chucked the thermal liner), compresses and stuffs into a small bag when not in use. [click here for our review]
Three pairs of riding socks
One pair of lightweight hiking trousers and one pair of shorts
Four t-shirts
Underwear
One pair of flip flops (we use our riding boots for long walks, or if it’s cold, and our flip flops for everything else

Miscellaneous

First aid kit
Ukulele (because why not)
Small compass

Electronics

Laptop
Mobile phone
Camera and GoPro

Camping

MSR tent
MSR Dragon Fly stove
MSR cooking system, pots, pans, bowls [click here for our review]
Foldable wash bowl
Thermarest lightweight ground mats
Plastic cutlery
Mora knife
Head torch
Picnic blanket (comes in very handy)

Bike

We have a pretty comprehensive tool kit, which allows us to fix most things on the bike. We already have a guide to building your own tool kit, where we list all the tools we took with us including our puncture repair kit. click here to check it out
Spare fuel and water carried in a Rotopax
Abus Granite lock
Pac Safe mesh net
Mr Funnel petrol filter (incredibly important in countries like Uzbekistan)

Click here for the Choosing your Adventure Bike guide

Food bag

We keep a separate bag for all our food. As we like riding off into the wilderness, we need to carry food for a few days.
Easy to reach cutlery also lives in this bag