Blades

[treed]

What if any type of knives do you carry when touring? After watching Feasting on Asphalt with Alton I picked up one of the Kershaws to have with me. Always nice to have a knife along if only for cutting cheese and buttering bread.

[Morley]

Gerber MK-1, boot kife.

[Big_E]

Gerber multi tool

[Zotter]

3 things I always have with me

Leatherman
Mini-mag flashlight
CRKT M16-10KZ
http://www.knivesplus.com/media/CR-M1610KZ.jpg
open length near 7 1/4"
About $20 from Wally-World. Great all around piece of tool to have on hand. The 'tanto' blade shape is very handy for all kinds a doings.

[Rick-L]

For knives I carry a small Victorinox Swiss Army knife (http://www.swissarmy.com/MultiTools/Product.htm?category=multitoollights&product=53851&), the one with a pen & red LED light. Snaps in just right in the stingray compartment where I guess there was originally some kind of 'torch' (flashlight to us American Germans).

In the toolkit I have the Gerber Multi-Plier (http://www.gerber-tools.com/Gerber-Multi-Plier-600-Needlenose-07530.htm) (needlenose) which has several blades. Similar to the Leatherman.

And then there's whatever might be in my pocket at the time, usually a small Gerber lockblade (http://www.gerber-tools.com/Gerber-Paraframe-I-fine-edge-22-48444.htm), the one with the skeleton handle.

I have a couple other tiny LED flashlights in various places too but the most awesome one I found is the newer Rayovac 3w headlight (http://www.rayovac.com/flashlight/lux3aahdlt-b.shtml). A bit pricey, around $25 shipped but man is this thing bright!

[the1mavin]

What if any type of knives do you carry when touring? After watching Feasting on Asphalt with Alton I picked up one of the Kershaws to have with me. Always nice to have a knife along if only for cutting cheese and buttering bread.

Leatherman Surge - straight blade, serrated blade and a saw blade; not to mention all the other useful parts...

[jbrown]

Not knowing what the "Feasting on Asphalt" reference is, are these
knives for protection or utility?

[STARFIGHTER]

Victorinox Swiss army knife always in the stingray
6" Buck single blade folding knife in pouch on my belt
6" single blade folding knife in my "kitchen bag."

[Zotter]

Not knowing what the "Feasting on Asphalt" reference is, are these
knives for protection or utility?

I think 'Feasting' is a food/cooking show using a motorcycle to travel around and find new stuff.

Knife is Utility - least for me.

For protection, a .45 ACP handles that nicely. More important is not getting in a situation where it'd be needed.

[petevandyke]

I used to keep a Gerber Harley Davidson multi-tool in my top-case...


...but it kept leaking oil.


So I switched to a SOG.


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