Trans America Trail - 2008

Review – Touratech RB Compact.

This was a quality road book that I needed for Sams instructions. I got it from the Touratech website and it wasn’t cheap!

Still I thought it’d be good as most of their stuff is.

Well it was and it wasn’t. The quality of construction was very good and the roller was good too. It had rubber bands that turned both rollers at the same time and it’s mount to the cross-bar was strong looking. However the face plate and it’s mounting system was rubbish.

The standard face plate is thin, not that this was a problem but it was held in place by 4 tiny screws. These are so small you are almost guaranteed to lose them when changing the roll. They also screw into Perspex plates that look like this. This will strip in no time.

I decided to attached a more robust plate and mounting system: it looks like this and this. When it was put together it looked like this.

I was changing my road book everyday and this mod helped no end.