{"id":814,"date":"2009-09-16T18:22:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2010-03-16T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T23:05:08","slug":"compression-bags-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/compression-bags-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Compression bags &#8211; review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/compression.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-826\" title=\"compression\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/compression.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>Compression bags<\/strong> &#8211; After 12,000 miles my opinion is if  you don&#8217;t have everything possible in a compression bag, beg, borrow, or  whatever to pack what you can compressed. My relatively little  23.5 x 12 x 12 Hydra II bag carried 2 sleeping bags, 2 sleep mats, 2  fleece blankets, 2 pillows, Apollo lantern,\u00a0 and fuel cans for the Jet  Boil. No way this would have happened if the sleeping bags, sleep mats, pillows, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fleece_liner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-841 alignright\" title=\"fleece_liner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fleece_liner-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"73\" height=\"73\" \/><\/a>blankets weren&#8217;t compressed. I made all the compression bags custom to  fit what we were taking &#8212; it takes a little ripstop nylon, webbing, and  ladder lock buckles. I will never travel on the motorcycle without  them. Next project is to find a way to compress clothes without trashing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compression bags &#8211; After 12,000 miles my opinion is if you don&#8217;t have everything possible in a compression bag, beg, borrow, or whatever to pack what you can compressed. My relatively little 23.5 x 12 x 12 Hydra II bag carried 2 sleeping bags, 2 sleep mats, 2 fleece blankets, 2 pillows, Apollo lantern,\u00a0 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,59],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-gear-review","tag-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}