Peak Design Everyday Backpack 35L v1

After half a decade the zipper on my trusty backpack has failed. No surprise there, I had been travelling for 10s of thousands of KMs with the thing by Airplane, Train, Buses, Car, Motorcycles and on Foot and have used (and abused) it to hell and back.

The options were having it repaired, but that would have either involved sending the thing halfway across the globe (and getting a replacement v2 variant in the end) or repairing it here locally, I had even started to look into possible replacement parts and their specs. But that would have set me back more than half of the cost of a brand-new backpack.

Instead I then took this as an opportunity to upgrade to the Peak Design 45L Travel Backpack, which solves several issues I had with the old one, like the straps, the luggage pass-through and the small volume. On the other hand this also means I now have to optimise my gear and packing procedure again from scratch (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but additional effort)

Motorcycle CarPlay Display

After two seasons of riding with the cheap CarPlay display from China (that was supposed to be weather-proof) the pixels in the display got stuck. This was fine but sometimes the backlight cut out, making it impossible to read directions.

By recommendation of a friend of mine, I replaced it with an Elebest C650, which is solves several of the issues I had with the first device:

• The screen is high-res enough that you can’t make out any pixels by eye and way brighter

• Media Playback does only resume on connect if there is an app actively in memory and has an open media session

• The display is mounted in a cradle and can be removed

  This one is also supposed to be weather-proof, but instead of verifying this I can remove the display over the winter.

Gloves

During the Wiesbaden Trip I got cold and bought warm Reusch Driftice gloves, I’ll keep my Rukka Viriums but then for warmer weather.