Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

If you mean that they were occasionally guests in other people's houses and ate their food without paying for it, and occasionally stayed under someone's roof without paying for it, I guess technically that's true. But they're not remittance men. And mostly they camped. Those are their real expenditures, including bike stuff. I mentioned that to get people thinking, "well, how did they do that?" and to emphasize that tourers don't need specific products to ride their bikes, or even specific bikes.