Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

Smaller tent for the win, too! In our Habitat we hung a bug screen at the end of the normal bed area and it surprisingly kept the bed area quite a bit warmer. Our ground tent is just a small 2 man tent, and prolly does an even better job maintaining temp than the Habitat. Those giant standing room tents I'd think would be noticeably colder.

 

I've been to palouse falls a half dozen or so times, the road can vary from absolutely fine to massive potholes and ruts just depending on the time of year and if they've maintained it or not yet.

If you wanted to stretch a couple of the days and to be a bit longer and move your moses lake overnight, you could always go to Walla Walla and do some wineries from Yakima, if y'all are into that sort of thing. It has a nice little downtown with a few tasting rooms.

Or you could spur north and go up to Chelan and Grand Coulee Dam after moses lake before swinging back down to leavenworth.

 

Went on a later ride with the monkey last night. Really can’t wait to install the 170 4v BBk. Once it’s faster may need better suspension. The bike is a little bouncy right now even with after market shocks and stiffer fork springs. Still a ton of fun though. May go take the Klx out for a ride today. I really don’t want to put too many miles on it since it’s for sale.

 

agreed! nothing beats a cold night around a campfire and then going into a warm sleeping bag!

idk if id want another rtt thou lol. prices on them suck now!

yaaa the heat is awful! to be fair those slide in campers look awesome! been loosely looking at used ones that need some work for cheap to use in the truck. havent found one yet!

lol nice you just going to hotels or what you doing?

 

Yeah, sounds like I should take Palouse off for the bikes.

We aren't into the wine scene. But could see about swinging down to Walla Walla. Not sure I've ever been. Will have to check out the town online and see what's up.

We've camped up near Grand Coulee before, but again, never been to the dam. I'll see about that route later today. Chelan would be great, but depends on mileage and such. I'll start playing with maps again after this meeting i'm... late to.

 

The color scheme looks like the old LEGO space set from the 90s.

 

That thing is fucking rad.

 

Take the ferry over to southworth, ride down 3 until you get to belfair, then around hood canal on 106. Overnight in Port Townsend ( if you can make it that far). Continue around 101, Coastal highway around the peninsula, stay in ocean shores, continue down 12 to grand mound, hop on freeway for a shot jaunt until 12 breaks off, head east up to Packwood, take 123 and then 410 around the back of Mt. Rainier, and come back in through Enumclaw.

I have done all of that, not at once just while living there, except the northern section if 101 across the top of the peninsula. Some beautiful country through there.

 

We're still steering clear of freeways for now. As for the 101 trip, that's a separate plan for us. My parents still live in Elma where I grew up. We plan to haul the bikes down and use that as a jumping off point to do 101, and yeah, prolly stay in PT or PA. Plan to do the same thing leaving from Elma to head south to Astoria, Tillamook, and a bit further. Mapped out a trip all the way to our condo in Winchester Bay, but she didn't see a point in going that far south (yet). She hasn't seen much of 101 and would like to spend some more time on the northern half of Oregon. We'd have done some of that this year, but with the truck down the last three months it wasn't an option to trailer anywhere. Still waiting for it to get fixed...

I've been wanting to do a day trip to Packwood, but with 123 currently gravel for half of it or so we've avoided it. I think they'll finish that construction this year, so might just wait til 2026 season for that.

 

Rtt's are just an elevated ground tent that see less use. I see the wedge things as being pretty much the same, a tent on top of a canopy.
I can totally support the slide-in camper. Even better, get a pop up like the one in my sig. But both have their benefits, pro's and con's.
Light, comfy and you can still get the truck places a full size camper can't. Mine lives on the truck full time. Has kitchen, fridge (I recommend getting one of the modern electric units though) shitter, bed, furnace, sink, running water, table, etc. A chick once commented that it's like a tiny house.

 

back when i had a rtt mine was used almost every weekend if not every other weekend. but thats back when you could get a nice tent for about 700 bucks... now days cheap tents are just cheap and you have to spend a grand or more!! the other reason i dont want a rtt this go around is well i use my truck as a truck a lot! my bed gets loaded with dirt, bricks, lumber and what ever else! so i need access to it full time.

i have been looking into the pop up slide in campers they seem the best for us and what we need, i do hate the cost of the damn things.... new ones are almost the price of a pull behind camper! and used ones will vary around 10k or less... i saw one awhile back that needed some work for 1500... i almost bought it but decided against it.

i didnt know they had bathrooms thou? ive seen a lot that dont have a bathroom its just well a place to sleep and eat at. what brand do you have?

 

It's called a Lite Craft, made in Denver by a company that is no longer in business. I see several of them around the area, most are on a Tacoma of some kind.
The shitter is a compost toilet that slides into a cubby under the lower bunk/couch. The camper has a fresh water tank only. Grey water (sink water) is expelled out the side with a garden hose attachment to a bucket on the ground that I use to extinguish campfires before I leave.
They can be expensive. Watch out for mold on the tent material. I hunted for over a year before finding this one and it still needed some minor cleaning. And with RV's, the smaller the unit, the higher the cost per square foot. You can thank Covid for the elevated prices. I paid $3400 for this one, it would sell now for around 6k.

 

Truck campers come in all shapes and sizes. From bare bones boxes to 100 sq foot triple slide monstrosities with a kitchen peninsula, dry bathroom with toilet and shower, a couch and dinette and a king sized bed.

Our camper we just have a small storage compartment with a Dometic portable toilet. We don't always use it, but it's great to have when no other facilities are around. We just pull it out, and use it right in the small aisle/floor we have. No shower for us either. But I do have stuff for outside shower, but we only ever used that one time in all the years we used our hot water system.



With the bikes, we'd rather tow them to a campground that has the facilities.

The Cirrus 620 is pretty expensive, but it'd fit your F150 well.



Has a hidden cassette toilet.

 

Not sure how state campgrounds are by you but here in MI the vast majority of them have pretty nice bathrooms and showers. My wife ranks campgrounds we've stayed at and bathrooms are one of the most important things for her ranking

 

Nice! You can still be a part of the conversation while you are pooping.

 

I looked at 4 Wheel Campers for a long time, those things are very expensive with a waiting list on top.
I made my own outdoor shower with a pop-up privy and an old RV water pump with a kitchen sink sprayer. Just gotta heat the water and plug in the pump. I made it 4 years ago and still haven't used it.

 

Devil's punchbowl is definitely worth hitting while on the northern Oregon coast.

 

Lol I was hanging with the fam! You know what else showed up...

Spoiler

Dude right. such a well done vehicle. There were a good amount of restomods there, I just rarely think to take pics. Only snapped that mustang because a buddy of mine has been looking to buy a fastback restomod himself lol

curious to know what exactly a "modern electric unit fridge shitter" entails...

my dream one day is to get my hands on one of those built out long-wheelbase/high ceiling sprinter vans. with a little garage for the bikes so I don't have to tow.

 

I should have clarified that,
I meant a modern electric 12v fridge. Mine is old enough to have a Dometic 3 way that runs on AC/DC, or propane. And it does work.
The problem with it is it only cools down roughly 30 degrees from ambient outside temp.
So it's only good for 70 degree outside temps. It does have a freezer though that works well, so ice cream sammies while camping are a thing as well as ice cubes for beverages.
I use it mainly as a closet though.

 

I have never been a big fan of developed campgrounds. For that reason we travel with a bathroom....