As a parallel gallery to the
Fully Loaded web site, let's have a gallery of our own touring/camping setups.
Brief is similar but not so rigid.
1 - Try to post only photos of your bike in an obvious touring role (definitely none propped up against a blank garage wall).
2 - The photo should give a sense of your camping/touring trip. The photo should have some merit without the bike in there.
3 - The bike should be side on and prominent enough for people to drool over (not just a bike lying on its side on the grass in the distance)
4 - People ARE allowed in the photo but it IS about the bike (so do not obscure any part of the bike with any part of a human if possible)
5 - Give a brief description (no touring stories) - Bike Make & model / Luggage Brand & model / Location / any notable mods or custom bits
6 - Bikes don't need to be fully loaded but you should be carrying luggage, in a touring situation, rather than just riding with a credit card and a saddlebag (the regular gallery has a "Member's Bikes" thread)
7 - Try to curb your natural YACF instincts to reply to a photo post with a humorous comment and thereby repeatedly re-post the same image multiple times (Note..you can always remove your "humorous" comments any time you like in order to clean up the thread, leaving just nice touring bike photos).
Note: The idea of these photos is to make viewers want to jump up, hang some panniers on a bike and ride off to a distant campsite.
The current leader in the (my decision is arbitrary and final) "
Best Fully Loaded Touring Bike Photo" is Deano with this one from page 6.
Remember, we want to see the bike clearly, it isn't a holiday snap thread. It should be clearly a photo of your bike in a nice place (not a nice place that happens to have a bike somewhere in the distance)
Some perfect examples (to show the preferred standard). See below for contributors...