What I Keep in my Honda Pacific Coast PC800 Trunk

I keep a small kit of essential supplies and tools in case I break down while on the road with my Honda Pacific Coast PC800 motorcycle. So far I have never needed any of my kit while riding in over a decade of PC800 ownership and tens of thousands of logged miles but I have it just in case.

In the left side of my trunk, I have:

• A quart of Hondaline motorcycle oil
• A small bottle of emergency eye wash solution in case I get something in my eyes while riding (dust, sand, etc)
• A tire patch kit (the black bag and the gray box) with reinflation cartridges
• Fuses (in the ziploc bag)
• A set of metric allen wrenches
• A “Cramp Buster” for long rides when I need some relief
• A metal valve stem for the wheels in case one of mine breaks while I’m on a ride (they can be somewhat hard to find at a local motorcycle shop — this avoids having to wait a few days for one to arrive)

In the right side of my trunk I have:

• A nearly complete OEM Hondaline toolkit (brown bag)
• Leather work gloves – good for doing something messy or if my normal riding gloves go missing
• A few zip ties
• Hand wipes
• A plastic garbage bag (white, in the middle)
• Motorcycle jumper cables
• Toilet paper (ziploc bag) for emergencies

In the left front fairing pocket I also have a few other things:

• Digital tire pressure gauge (I try to check before every ride)
• A little red rubber motorcycle that Tim Davies gave me on his and Evan’s 2018 trip out west.
• Spare change in case I need a few quarters for a parking meter or a toll bridge
• Some ratty ear plugs in case I lose the normal ones I wear while I ride
• Not pictured: a cell phone charger — I have a charge port installed at the top of the compartment.

One other thing that I sometimes carry if I’m going on a particularly long multi-day ride is a replacement regulator/rectifier (R/R). They can *very* occasionally go bad and are a long lead-time item. It wasn’t in my trunk today when I took these photos which reminds me that I really should dig it out and throw it in the trunk again.