camping while riding two up
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Alcohol...coke,I'm drinking it not cooking!!!!!
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Alcohol...coke,I'm drinking it not cooking!!!!!
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From: Cleveland, Ohio
If you are looking for a little stove you should check out a Jetboil. Http://www.jetboil.com I have one for motorcycle camping and it is pretty damn awesome.
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From: Cypress, Texas
How much room are you really going to save by throwing away a few pair of gruns? If space is that tight maybe you ought to just free ball it.
+1 on the trailer, see all kinds of people pulling them, you then would have enough room to even take the kitchen sink...... plus all your wife's shoes, her makeup, hair dryer, curling iron, 4 copies of people magazine, her pillow, bathrobe, pajamas, slippers and on and on and on and on.
+1 on the trailer, see all kinds of people pulling them, you then would have enough room to even take the kitchen sink...... plus all your wife's shoes, her makeup, hair dryer, curling iron, 4 copies of people magazine, her pillow, bathrobe, pajamas, slippers and on and on and on and on.
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My wife and I spent four days camping. We had tent stove air mattress and our cloths and it was tied on our sportster. A littie sluggish going up hills other than that did good. We are planing another trip this year.
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From: North Carolina
A good friend of mine used to take 2-3 pairs of pants, 3 -socks, 3 -shirts, sleeping bag, jacket, and a rain suit. Once he got to where he was going, he would do his laundry, once. He then bought more clothes and would mail his dirty ones back home. Think about it, at every rally, most of us buy more shirts than we really want to pack. Well, he just wore his and mailed the dirty stuff home. He got the best of both worlds, his ralley shirts and didn't have to worry about packing it on the bike. The flat rate boxes is what he mailed the stuff back home in.
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From: Massachusetts
If its going to be warm, use fleece sleeping bags. I got mine at Dick's Sporting Goods for $12. This really does pack to the size of a football, and comes with a storage bag. Much better than carrying a big, full size sleeping bag, and it weighs next to nothing. Combined with a packable camp pillow, and an air mattress, I'm good.
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From: Rocky Mount ,Va
2 up camping
I did it for several years with a T-bag on the psgr backrest,sometimes at the expense of top heavy bike.I looked for 2 years for a trailer to pull behind;scary if you have never done it.I have used my trailer last year 9 times and now feel comfortable with it.Yes you need to use caution and drive in the limits that a trailer and its weight create.I now have a tent ,2 chairs,stove,bags,pads,cooking pots/pans/dishes,dvd player,leathers,rain gear.........you get the idea and still can put more crap in there.The bike is less top heavy and WE sleep like we are at home with all the comforts.I run a 06 SG with King Tour Pak and trailer ;out 2 up for 3 weeks and enjoyed every day.Yea you can do it without the trailer but it makes it soooooo much easier with it.
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From: East Tennessee
I have a Road Glide. Like you I had a hard time loading my needs in saddle bags and tour pack. I first put a rack on top of my tour pack. There I could carry my tent and sleeping bags. That worked pretty well, but last year I bought a Harbor Freight Trailer, attached a Sears cargo carrier. Now I can carry cooler, camping supplies and a couple of folding chairs. The bike auctually handles better with a trailer than with all of that gear loaded on the back of the bike. The trailer does require longer stopping distances, but your bike is no longer top heavy with your shocks heavily compressed.
