{"id":43,"date":"2007-04-10T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/blog\/none\/a-stroke-of-genius"},"modified":"2007-04-10T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:02:00","slug":"a-stroke-of-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2007\/04\/10\/a-stroke-of-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"A stroke of genius&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized at some point last week that undoing my massive ratcheted strap to get inside my pelican case was going to be a pain in the butt on the road, particularly if I am storing a lens in there that I may want to get my hands on at some point, so I got the brilliant idea to secure the pelican with a few of those huge rubber tarp straps. While I was picking them up, I looked to the left, and saw the point of brilliance..<\/p>\n<p>D-rings. Caribeaners. Not the climbing grade ones, but nice ones nonetheless. A few more of those rubber straps, a dozen or so of those, and I can distribute the majority of the soft, cushy BACKREST type loads (pillow, sleeping bag, etc) directly behind my seat, and not only make it easy on, easy off&#8230; but keep access to the pelican fast and easy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now all I need to do is figure out where I -really- want to put my extra gas&#8230;. instinct says on top of the right hardcase&#8230; away from the tailpipe. Reality says&#8230; plenty of protection on the left, no worries&#8230;. and all your basics will be in the right case. Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>At some point in the next week or so&#8230; probably this weekend&#8230; I need to put all this to the test and do a shakedown run. Pack everything, go for a ride. We&#8217;ll see what comes out the other side. I guess that means getting my tankbag installed&#8230; ugh.<\/p>\n<p>More next time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized at some point last week that undoing my massive ratcheted strap to get inside my pelican case was going to be a pain in the butt on the road, particularly if I am storing a lens in there that I may want to get my hands on at some point, so I got &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2007\/04\/10\/a-stroke-of-genius\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A stroke of genius&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}