Bike Camping for Bri

[VanTramp]

Hey Bri, I couldn't find a better place to put this and didn't want to take over your Panama thread so....<div><br></div><div>How bout a thread for pictures of various scoots setup to camp or during such a trip?..&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, the old Super Glide did make it out on the road fairly often <img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"> Well, when I was single anyway. This pic was taken on the coast of Oregon. Notice the comfy seat?? Well, it wasn't to hide the vibrations as you suspect rather because I never had any desire to achieve "iron butt" status!</div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M1Gt8xzoeHE/T06P6RGL_1I/AAAAAAAAA9A/R52fekxEweI/s800/SGlide.jpg"></div>

 

[Guest]

Nice Mike.....<br>Here are some of some of my rigs on trips...first one is showing how I set up a Hennessy Hammock when there is only one thing to tie it to.<br>The rest are of my Wing/Ural and 1989 R100GS loaded up on some trips and the one of my son at the Arctic Circle shows my other bike at the time.... a radically modded&nbsp; Honduh XR650L that my son was using on a ride with me around Alaska one summer.<br>Bri <br><br><br>

 

[VanTramp]

Excellent pics Bri! Love the clever hammock hanging! Both the R100GS and the XR650L are setup really nice! That definitely would be a fun way to go! &nbsp;<div><br></div>

 

[Guest]

Thanks Mike...they were fun to do...<br>The hard bags on the GS and XR were my builds before I had access to and learned to use...a great TIG welder. They were built from alloy plate and angle stock, aircraft rivets and 3M marine 5200 adhesive that is commonly used in building floatplane floats.<br>It was all done with a circular saw, power miter box and cordless drill. They came out pretty nice and I still have the set from the BMW. <br>Later I made a couple sets of welded bags made from heavier plate and a top box as well....when Kit crashed on the haul road (Dalton Hwy) her bike endo'd really spectacularly and destroyed a lot of it except for the bags...they only got scuffed a bit on the lower corners...LOL Our friend Doug still has her topbox on his Honduh Transalp....I sold it to him and it has been through two or three bikes and crashes with him as well....I guess my welds were good even though they looked a bit amateurish...<br>Bri<br><br>

 

[Ryan24]

This is great! I had considered doing something like this in the future, but with a bicycle.&nbsp;

 

[yesican]

<p>I'm so jealous...its always been my dream to do that.&nbsp; I bought a KLR 650 for trips but found out its a butt number just going 300 mile round trip in a day.&nbsp; Now the seat on my V star 1100 was wide and comfy but that bike didn't handle dirt so well and when I went to see patients on the dirt/sandy roads, I had a few scary moments.&nbsp; I also had a Suzuki Vstrom 650 much like the KLR but it went fast...can't believe I didn't get a ticket on that thing. The faster it went the smoother it got; you'd never know you were going that fast.&nbsp; Sold it and got the KLR...couldn't behave myself.</p>

 

[romani10]

My bandit 1200 is a butt number also...I might think of getting a KLR, but the seat would have to be changed. Love those corbin seats, had one on my bmw k75. Haven't toured on the bandit, or made long trips just because of the seat. Bri, I would love to know the TIG welding process...what a great skill to have!<div><img src="http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...38416_100000816555259_909431_1686731148_n.jpg"></div>

 

[Guest]

This is great! I had considered doing something like this in the future, but with a bicycle.

<br><br>Hi Ryan...the rigs I saw most in Baja this winter were folks on bicycles of all kinds...I must have seen 20 folks on them and about the same or a little less on motos...<br><br>

I'm so jealous...its always been my dream to do that.&nbsp; I bought a KLR 650 for trips but found out its a butt number just going 300 mile round trip in a day.&nbsp; Now the seat on my V star 1100 was wide and comfy but that bike didn't handle dirt so well and when I went to see patients on the dirt/sandy roads, I had a few scary moments.&nbsp; I also had a Suzuki Vstrom 650 much like the KLR but it went fast...can't believe I didn't get a ticket on that thing. The faster it went the smoother it got; you'd never know you were going that fast.&nbsp; Sold it and got the KLR...couldn't behave myself.

<br><br>Wow, Yesican...the Suzuki and Kawi are two of my most favorite bikes I haven't had! You make good choices. One thing I did as I was customizing my Honda X650L is change the brick of a seat to a Corbin...man was that sweet....it was a lot wider and gave me a lot of room to move around on. It was a favorite seat of mine.<br>I am way too old for tickets it seems although most of the speeding tickies I have had were on a bike..these days I like to plod along on my sidecar rig and just look and smell and feel the world.<br><br>

My bandit 1200 is a butt number also...I might think of getting a KLR, but the seat would have to be changed. Love those corbin seats, had one on my bmw k75. Haven't toured on the bandit, or made long trips just because of the seat. Bri, I would love to know the TIG welding process...what a great skill to have!

<br><br>Guy, I thought you had a Guzzi for some reason? Did you once? Anyway...the TIG opportunity was as a result of the shop I worked in and my mate there who was a former high pressure gas pipeline welder. He worked on a lot of the San Francisco infrastructure gas lines in his day. We had a great industrial TIG welder and all I had to do is buy Argon and rod and plate and I did all my building as "OJT". What a blessing....In my view, once you pick up the basics, the key is a good machine and lots of practice...<br>Brian<br><br>

 

[romani10]

Bri, I had to lose the Guzzi in NC, mountain gravel &nbsp;at our boondocking sites...the guzzi was a touring bike. I sold it and went with the short wheel base bandit. Handles quicker and leaner, turn on a dime...but it ain't no dual purpose!

 

[Guest]

Guy, got it.....too bad you had to let the Guzzi go....but the Bandit is very cool . Some time back I had a friend here who rode the wheels off one on the Gila twisties...we would start as a group and by the time we caught up with him and Katana Ken they would be halfway through lunch! We weren't putt-ing along slow either....in fact I would ride my R100GS bumblebee as fast as I dared....!<br><br>Many of my sidecar friends use Guzzis as tugs for their rigs....several right here in NM.<br>brian<br><br>