您已经看到了“专家”的定义，不是吗？这是一个复合词，由前缀“ ex”组成，这意味着离家很远，而“爆发”，这意味着在压力下滴落的小滴水。不，认真。有时候，咨询专家很有用，即使有时没有。让我们探索专家的主题，特别是适用于摩托车旅行。

To begin with, you will find endless sources of expertise on the interwebs. Major red flag here: many are the claims to expertise, few are the true experts. Verify before you trust. Creators of fake sites are, er, expert at making them look attractive to readers – quite often by appealing to opinions and prejudices that they know are held by lots of people. Verify by cross-checking, and make sure you eliminate the “not many people know this” and “primitive tribesmen of Cleveland have been using this” kinds of sites. Yes, I know you know this. But don’t forget it.

The best website I have found for medical advice is that of the Mayo Clinic. Concise, well-written advice for medical dummies in easily accessible form. Look at https://www.mayoclinic.org at home before you go if you anticipate a medical problem, or check the site on the road. Explanations and treatments are usually free of over-medicalising, which means they often rely on, say, wrapping someone in a wet blanket rather than recommending hard-to-find and expensive drugs. There are also plentiful cross-references for details. A good and more loquacious backup is WebMD,https://www.webmd.com还有很多其他。

A general guide to staying alive under many difficult and dangerous conditions is “Stay Alive, A Handbook on Survival” ISBN 0 642 05982 9, a little A6 book published by the Australian Government Publishing Service. It is only about 17mm thick and will fit just about anywhere. I have the ‘heavy duty edition’, printed on plastic rather than paper and therefore water (and sweat, they claim) proof. While this is an Australian book it also contains much wider information, although none of it is motorcycle-specific. It is out of print; try to find the third edition second-hand.

Another non-motorcycle publisher (although to be fair they do occasionally include some bike-related advice) is Lonely Planet. Be aware of the books’ main limitation, namely that they sell in their thousands and therefore thousands of other travelers will use the same suggestions. Keep that in mind, and their highly reliable advice is useful. Sometimes quite remarkably so: a friend and I needed help to find a hotel at the Postojna Caves in Slovenia. We consulted the Lonely Planet guide, which told us that the woman at the Postojna tourist info centre was the rudest of her kind in the world. This was spot-on.

如有特定于摩托车的建议，请查看现已去世的白马出版社。与上一本书一样，您需要寻找二手副本。我觉得有用的书，即使现在已经很老，也是“摩托车维护”，ISBN 1884313418；“摩托车旅行”，ISBN 1884313426;和“双运动摩托车”，ISBN 188431371X。我可能会喜欢的其他人。为了在路上阅读，您不能超越罗伯特·爱迪生·富尔顿（Robert Edison Fulton）的“一个人大篷车”，ISBN 1884313051。

您需要真正的专家建议的一个领域是法律。确保您检查有关您需要携带的文书工作的官方资源（从意大利到斯洛文尼亚，请确保您有所有权或所有者的信件）；您可能会或可能不会进口的摩托车（我认为越南禁止自行车超过350cc，这取决于边境警卫）；您需要穿的安全装备（例如法国和西班牙的手套；或携带，例如欧洲大部分地区的反光背心）；您要访问的国家特有的道路规则；诸如您的自行车间通信器的频率之类的东西可能不使用。问我我怎么知道那个。

当地的口头，有时甚至是书面或印刷，方向似乎都是专家。也许他们会成为，但也许是出于几个原因，也许不会。您的顾问可能不愿暴露她的无知，因此猜测；在印度，他可能非常热衷于帮助，以至于他会指向一个随机的方向。她可能不了解摩托车的能力和局限性；否则他可能会认为您了解不知道的道路限制。甚至来自旅游信息办公室的建议也容易发生。

On the other hand, such offices can be remarkably useful. It is worth checking online resources and even contacting them for printed matter. But the most effective way to tap their expertise is in person, or by phone. I have been guided to the best value hotel which just happened to be having a sale, in Natchez; and given telephone numbers to call early in the morning to see if major New Orleans hotels were offering discount rooms for that day.

If you are looking at general online advice by people like me, try to discover if you have agreed with past recommendations they have made. If so, you’re more likely to agree with them in the future. Also, try to establish what their prejudices are and allow for them. That can be hard work. But who ever said that life, and especially motorcycle travel, was meant to be easy?

Apart from me.