Bike camping tips

 Swiped from another board. I gotta camp with this guy.


I've been camping all my life, ever since Cub Scouts. However, I never
camped by motorcycle, so I put some thought into some ideas to make it more
enjoyable, fun, and memorable:

1. When using a public campground, a tuba placed on your picnic table will
help keep the campsites on either side vacant.

2. Get even with a bear who raided your food bag by kicking his favorite
stump apart and eating all the ants.

3. Old socks can be made into high fiber jerky by smoking them over an open
fire.

4. A hot rock placed in your sleeping bag will keep your feet warm. A hot
enchilada works almost as well, but the cheese sticks between your toes.

5. Lint from your navel makes a fine fire starter. Remove lint from navel
before applying the match. DAMHIKT.

6. You can duplicate the warmth of a down-filled bedroll by climbing into a
plastic garbage bag with several geese.

7. When packing to leave, you can compress the diameter of a rolled up
sleeping bag by running over it with your vehicle.

 Stupendous Man wrote:


My SO (at the time) and I once lived in a tipi (built from
directions in _The Indian Tipi_ by Reginald & Gladys Laubin,
University of Oklahoma Press).

The book said that on cold days the inhabitants would put some rocks
in the fire and wrap them in hides when they were warm and put them
in the bedding. So we heated up this rock and wrapped it in a towel and
put it in the sleeping bag... which soon started to pour smoke like
the locomotive in _High Noon_. The towel was scorched black... guess we
overdid it a bit.


A better way is to put it into a Glad bag and attach the inlet side of
a vacuum cleaner. I haven't tried this using a small portable one but
I think it would work. As the air is evacuated the sleeping bag will
compress down to a surprisingly small flat bundle. It might even
be possible to obtain some vacuum from the intake side of a carb
or one of those emergency tire compressors.

If it's a really big sleeping bag it might be necessary to use
a large size Glad bag meant for garden waste.

SQ

 Bob Myers wrote:


Do you sing like Luciano Pavarotti or do the wolves and coyotes
accompany you? ;-)

SQ - We don't DO fear.
'06 Zuk S40 / '81 CB750 custom / various derelicts & basket cases

 Sean_Q_ wrote:

Or do they put their heads down and cover their ears with their paws?

 
Beware of "motorcyclists" or other strange men who are keen to go
camping with you and say something about, "Just the two of us", or "I
love camping but don't want to go by myself."

You either go home mad, or you'll go home with a sore butt.