Just a personal thing but all the KTM pic loose strap ends flapping around in the wind would drive me to distraction. Tucking them in every morning would bring the scissors out fairly quickly. At least the Vietnamese C90 rider has tidied everything up.

I can understand the consistant advice to travel light, that less weight equals better "riding" but what happens when you stop for the evening? The whole point of taking stuff with you is to make off the bike life acceptable. Leaving the camping stuff behind will save lots of weight but you are then dependent on finding a hotel or similar every evening. What do you do when you roll into a town and find there isn't a hotel there or every single one is full (and (the last time this happened to me) it's snowing outside). For me that's just swapping weight for stress.

You can cut everything down to close to zero, particularly if you're travelling in a warm climate but it just becomes an exercise in hair shirt living and you end up buying stuff as you go. I've done enough of that over the years and tend towards overpack (slightly) and dump rather than underpack and buy. If nothing else it's quicker to leave stuff you don't want rather than have to search out places to buy oddball items (usually in a country where you don't speak the language).