If you do a lot of long distance riding, you’ll want to have a tire patch kit and a way to inflate the tire with you at all times.  My tire repair kit consists of:

• Slime’s Power Sport Tire Inflator
• Stop & Go Pocket Tire Plugger

Day 1
Packed up and ready to go. We left Raleigh around 1pm, but had to make a few errand stops before actually getting under way. I-40 to Winston-Salem, then on to 421 to connect to 321, which took us through Boone, NC at around 7pm. Road construction and some type of parent event at Appalachian State University made for a slow pass through Boone. We continued on 321 to 181 into Johnson City, TN at around 8:30pm, which was to be our “base camp”.

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