Originally Posted by
meshcarver
Hey mate- I did post about this previously aye- here's a link which HOPEFULLY takes you to the post:
Charger Post
If not, here's an image of the post too to show you my current charger I plan to take- I take it it's sufficient..?
Thanks for your advice with this too- extremely helpful..!
This trip now seems much closer as it's not "next year" anymore..!!!
Happy new year.
That should do nicely. Plus of course you need the charger that can charge at the 18 watts that it cites. It is my experience that some of the chargers that are sold at steep discounts are not very good and do not charge at rated capacity. Best to buy a charger from an electronics store that sells quality stuff if you want to make sure it will charge at the rated capacity.
That power bank can probably be charged from empty to full in four hours if you have a good charger for it.
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The post just before this one, someone suggested taking an Amtrak bus. If you sign up for a bus, some buses have racks on the front of the bus to carry bikes, some do not. And some will carry a bike in the luggage compartment. Best to verify that you can take a bike on the bus when you sign up for it. Photo below is from the end of my Pacific Coast trip, the bus was leaving San Francisco and going to an Amtrak station (
Emeryville), our bikes are on a rack on the front of the bus.
Some buses and Amtrak trains limit the number of pieces of luggage. Photo below is inside an Amtrak station. The bus I took to the station only allowed two pieces of luggage in the luggage compartment, plus the bike incurred an extra fee, and that bus only allowed a small bag inside the bus, in my case that was the handlebar bag.
The red mesh duffle holds my four panniers so that the four panniers were a single piece of luggage. For the Amtrak train, I was only allowed two pieces of checked luggage and the bike was one piece, the red duffle was the other. The yellow rack top bag and handlebar bag were carried onto the train.
I also had to do some weight adjustments, that red mesh bag with the panniers had to be below 50 pounds (~23kg). But I usually put my heaviest stuff in the bottom of the panniers and lightest stuff in the rack top bag, so for bus and train travel I moved some heavy stuff to my rack top bag which is the yellow bag on the bench.
Sometimes the travel to and from a bike tour is the complicated part. For this trip, I bought that red mesh duffle (~$20 on Amazon) specifically for this trip. In the case above, the bus ride to the Amtrak station had different luggage rules than the Amtrak train ride. The bus was operated by a different bus company.