Last weekend I had my wintertyres. They�re specially ordered by my to fi my X and made to be ridden even on dry surface for straight ahead transport.



It�s a Metzeler Karoo 150/70-17 for the rear and a Continental TKC 80 Twinduro 120/80-17 in the front (rear tyre) filled with lorrystuds in the middle and enduro icespikes on the edges.

On the first stage of my tour i�ll be landing and taking part on the Norwegian crystalrally www.krystallrally.no arriving in Spidtsbergen on the 10th of february and staying for two days.

Here�s a film made on Swedish by a swedish guy but if you can bare with the language the filming pretty much says it all.
Look at the other clips nearby aswell.



I was looking for the most suitable sidecarriers for the trip and when I got true all the equipment in the world as I could find on he web atleast I had three remaining candidates.

The Hepco Becker Gobi which fell of due to a pricetag of 445 Euros a piece...
The Pelican 1500 series which fell of due to that they were loaded on the side.

Finally as i said earlier I choose the DeWalt toolbox DS 400 due to its 70 Euro pricetag for each case and decided to hang them on OTR�s sidecarrier construction.





A staggering 55 liters loadspace in each case!

All bought and paid for the OTR pannier rack is on route, the DS 400 I bought at my local building material sales firm.

I was also looking for a bigger fueltank that could take a few crashes in the snow and with a pricetag way over it�s value plus the fact that its made of glassfiber which has little or no durability in the chill I decided not to go with the OTR 26 liter tank. Instead I searched on Ebay for the 23 liter Tener� tank and found one at 150 Euros! Need a cap and need to convert the saddle and a few other details to make it fit but this is the least of my concerns.