MOTORCYCLE CAMPING GEAR | THE GEAR I USE AND TRUST

good day folks Dan King here from dkv today we're going to be talking about all the camping gear that I take out on my multi-day trips stick around and check it [Music] out all righty so the type of riding that I do is the Dual Sport uh adventure longdistance multi-day riding I've got a 701 husana and I want to keep my gear as light as possible because weight is your enemy when it comes to off-road I use the same philosophy as hikers and I recommend you do the same if you want to get your weight down low and what I mean by that is your actual individual items getting the pack weight is is low just because I need to keep that weight down as low as I can so I can go into the harder Trails so this video is going to be really helpful for people who are getting into adventure bike riding and and looking for new gear but also people who are seasoned Veterans as well I love to go and watch other people's gear layout cuz that's where I pick up little bits of you know things that I'm like oh I'm going to do that to my packs so recently I've done a bit of a bag change I used to run the and I still do run the MOs Moto 80 L rackless system um I've been testing this giant Loop 25 L uh sorry 50 l in total 25 in side and these are the giant Loop uh motor Tre paneers now I've been running these paneers for a long long time I used to have them on my F800 GS and they were really good I really liked how it kept the weight down low so I'm doing a bit of testing at the moment but I obviously use both setups and I probably will go back to the Moscow Moto 80 over the summer period just because I'm going to be able to lose bit bit more weight cuz I've got a rack system steel rack system there by motortech that's holding this all together all righty kicking it off we'll start with my tent and doesn't look like much now but as you can see it packs down really really small and it is really really light so this tent is the big Angus copper spur 2 this is a Three Seasons tent and its pack weight is 1.4 kg so it is one of the lightest tents you can get and the reason why I like a tent um and particularly this tent is because I just like a little bit more space uh when I'm camping inside the tent and that just gives me somewhere to move around store some gear but also too when the weather turns pearshaped and it's bucketing down rain this tent gives you a little bit more shelter than opposed to saying being in in a bivvy or or in a hammock so this double Vu entry either side of this tent is really really handy and that's why I pick these type of tents because you can get the access from the side not from the front or the rear you can store gear under these veses not much but at least you've got two two of them so if you need to get some stuff out of the weather the reason why they can get it so light is because they make it from this really lightweight material now one of the things I need to mention about it is this material can rip really easily so in particular the floor so you need to put a ground sheet which you can buy separately underneath this tent um I'm not too bad on it but if you're pretty heavy on gear probably not something like this I know Nemo make an ultral light tent as well they make some really good stuff when it comes to tents there's thousands on the market um go work out what you want from Weight Wise pack down space and the seasons as well and that'll help determine what you want to get so there's another big agus tent uh that I'd recommend that has a um more High abrasion material on it so it's doesn't rip as easy so I camp all year and I obviously run two tents This Is My Summer tent my my winter tent is my hilberg yanu that way in comparison to this this that's almost 3 kilos this is only 1.4 so it's a massive saving packs down really small I've got a Ceda Summit compression bag on this this is a waterproof compression bag so if the tent does get wet I can pack it into my into my bags and it's not going to wet the rest of my gear so the sleeping bag that I've selected is the uh Ceda Summit spark sp1 ultral light now this sleeping bag packs down really really small one of the smallest items in my pack it weighs 385 G now it is a warm weather sleeping bag only so anything colder than that 9° and I'm getting into my winter sleeping bag which is rated to around that sort ofus 10 um one thing I like to add to the sleeping bag is obviously that thermal liner now this will add a little bit of extra temperature to it on those colder nights but anything sort of below 9° with the thermal liner it's just too cold all righty sleeping mats this is the Nemo tensor insulated sleeping mat this sucker only weighs 410 G so it's super light and it packs down really really small the technology mats has come a long way in the last couple of years they're getting smaller and lighter I recently grabbed this one because it's a little bit smaller than the thermes that I've been using for years that mat has been absolutely faultless and I'm taken it everywhere but this one just packs down that little bit smaller and weighs less this is just a regular so I don't need the big one because I'm using it predominantly over the summer period I like to get my mats insulated and what that does it stops the cold from penetrating through the bottom of the sleeping mat there's nothing worse than feeling cold at night so depending on where you are riding if you're riding in a really warm climate there's no point getting insulated but here here in Victoria and heading up into the mountains it can get really really cold even over the summer period so insulate it all the way for us down here in vic now if it is going to get cold uh I do like to carry a thermal liner and one of the other benefits to a thermal liner as well it helps keep your sleeping bag clean so this one here is the extreme reactor I've brought this one along just cuz it's going to get a little bit cool tonight when I'm when I'm out camping so this one here is is good it adds a little bit more temperature now Cedar Summit claim that this can give you 14° more uh AA sleeping bag it helps but I don't know if it goes 14 um from what I've used it for so this is only 110 G but if you go the less uh warmth one the next one down you save on a little bit more pack weight as well it packs in a bit smaller and doesn't weigh as much but this is easy to pack in it's it's it's slides into your bags and it can f that spots I recommend you carry one of [Music] these all righty so pillow is one of those things your sleeping mat and your pillow and your sleeping bag I fine you have to have those really really good and you've got to be comfortable cuz there's no point coming all this way and not being able to get a night's sleep so if these type of mats and things aren't suited to you do your research and find and go and test some equipment that's going to be more beneficial to you so this pillow um once again it's a large uh C of sum I've got a lot of C of summit stuff because it's reasonably well priced um and it it's really hearty gear so this is the cedar Summit just a basic AO pillow it only weighs 79 G so it's really really light packs in really really small uh this is the larger version I find these comfortable I know there's thousands of pillows out on the market once again like if you if you've got one that works for you please by all means use it but if you're just looking for sort of Cheaper end of the spectrum a couple of the other guys that I ride with have massive pillows that they take out but you know what they're comfortable when they sleep at night so if it works use it really easy to blow up doesn't take much at all you don't even need the pump for this one and that's it gone dirty pillow nice I like the system on this too you can sort of pop this first um plug out and you can actually push the little button inside here to let air out so I like to Pump It Up really really heavy at night get myself com comtable and then just sort of flick my hand around behind my head and pump a little bit of air out and then I can find that ultimate Comfort now most importantly this thing holds its air overnight so when you wake up in the morning you not it's not going to be deflated so it's good gear tidy and um I recommend it cooking equipment now I use different types of cooking equipment depending on what type of uh cooking I want to do and if I'm cooking for mates I'll take bigger Pots if I'm cooking for myself I want a steak I'll just take a pan um if I'm using a fire I'll just take a grill but one of the basic things that I always take and this can be used across the board for cooking some pretty basic stuff and the pots that I've gone uh are from companion and these are the pro nano solo cook set and they are so cheap 1.5 pot and a little 600 mil frying pan comes with a silicon lid and it comes with this mesh bag and I the reason why I like these is because they're made from ionized aluminium and that way I can cook in the fire so I cook a lot with this in the fire as well and they're really really Hardy and I've been using these for a long long time and they only weigh 300 G complete and as I say depends on the cooking if you're just boiling water and using um dehydrated meals for instance this is all you're going to need if you want to start cooking steaks it's going to be really tricky uh to cook a steak on this can be done you can just dice it up and throw it through and cook it like a stir fry I guess so I'm not a bit versatile when it comes to my cooking I like to cook different things particular when I'm out on the track and when it comes to the pots they're sort of limited to what you cook so I like to carry a frying pan and I've used the Pathfinder 20 cm folding Skillet and lid now this thing is fantastic it only weighs 420 G and it's made of stainless steel and you can cook in the fire with it it's super easy to clean you literally throw it in the fire turn it upside down and just let it burn out all the contents and then just wipe it out with some water on a rag and you're good to go it can be a little bit bulky to pack in but I've managed to sit it in the top of my uh 20 L bag it's just if you want something more versatile to cook with I recommend the Pathfinder light easy to use squeaky boots so sometimes I don't always cook in the fire particularly over the winter time so I like to use a stove and the stove I've picked um is a pretty basic one and it's from MSR and this is the MSR Pocket Rocket 2 and the name says it all it is a pocket rocket so I can boil a liter of water in about 3 minutes which is really really quick it's Compact and light and actually stores really well into my pots it only weighs 73 G so it's super super light pair that up with a gas butane bottle one of the small butane bottles they last enough for me uh if you want to get bigger ones obviously there's there's bigger sizes now just to put this in comparison to price-wise this is around 94 bucks it is pretty expensive there is a lot of these aren't out on the market they can get really really cheap you don't necessarily have to get this one putting in comparison with the $24 pots you look at like say a jet boil for instance which is around I think 230 bucks with your pots your burner you know that's pretty expensive so you can do it a lot cheaper and it does exactly the same thing I don't use this as much as I do now cuz I love that pan is the Alon Goods ultra light titanium Grill now there is a flat of these on the market I like Alon these are an Australian brand and it's not that expensive it's made from titanium this only weighs 240 G and it is really really good to use now obviously only can be really used on an open fire so you have to have your fire skills on point obviously just put your logs either side of it and then just build your cold bed underneath great for cooking snags awesome for cooking steaks on the Open Fire and it's easy to pack in your bag one of the other things I like is this case it's got a grease proof protective carry bag nothing worth than having that kilo and a half T-bone steak juice still sitting on your grill and going through your bag holds in this and um doesn't go through the rest of your bag so really really good light cheap I think it's only about 63 bucks for this um another good option all righty utensils this is just what I use and it's nothing special it's literally just some cedar Summit Plastic Knife and Fork and Spoon this set you can get and it's really easy to replace I think they're only about 7 buck so it's really really cheap food grade plastic it's also too it's a little bit heat rated so if you're going to use it to stir in your pots it's not going to melt them um I've been running these for a while now and they're fine the only thing with the knife obviously if you're going to go through that T-Bone steak you need to pack a sharper knife so I just use a Swiss army knife style knife for cutting through steaks and the fork and the spoon are all good it's all handy on a carabina now what I also have is the spatula and I've just drilled a hole in this and just added it to my um added to my setup and that just helps me particularly if I'm cooking on a pan that spatula is really good to mix with and it's doesn't melt as much as what the spoon does if you're worried about melting forks and stuff there is titanium options of that what I've found with the titanium stuff it can scratch the pots um then that's what you're going to eat later and you deter you can go through pots really quickly with the titanium stuff but if you want something that's going to last for a lifetime the titanium Cutler is definitely the way to go I haven't found this to be any issue to replace and if it does it's only seven bucks when they wear out I'll replace them yeah when it comes to Camp bowls I go with a cedar Summit XL Bowl I don't normally bring both of these with me I usually just take one or it out of the out of the pan but when I do I like to use these bows and same as the uh the mug same material again easy stores packs down nice and flat they shove in really well into your bags um also too they got a good B good back on them so you can use it as a chopping board uh for for eating so this is a little kit that I made myself s and this is my fire lighting kit particularly if you're using a fire a lot and you get to camp and you want to get that fire raging for us we like to cook on our fire so we need to get it fired up pretty quickly and what I've got in there I've got some my homemade fire lighters which is pretty much a cotton wool uh wrapped in Vaseline dipped in candle wax they burn for about 10 minutes um and they're really really good so I have my Flint lighter in here as well also have dry Tinder so if I can't if I rock up to camp and it's been pumping down rain and everything's wet and I just need to get that fire going that's where this fire bag comes really handy you can make these yourself this is just a tiny little dry sack that I picked up from an outdoor shop filled it with dry Tinder whatever you can find and fire lighters Flint lighter and you're always good to go packs in nice and small sits in your bag and it's a very very handy bit of Kit nice little crossing here uh water storage cuz I'm traveling out into really remote places I like to travel with a bit of water so this is a 4 L MSR Mountain safety rescue pretty much water bladder I have a couple of different versions of these I have a 6 l and a 10 L just depending on how far I'm going and how much water I need to carry I like to carry water it's one of those Commodities that if you run out of it and you need it it's going to bite you in the bum so therefore I like to carry a little bit extra packed up against my back here and it's sort of out of the way and it's not going to get damaged it's not in in the way of my riding you can slot your water down low obviously it's one of the heaviest things so if you want to pack that in down the low in your pack this probably is going to take a bit of space and if you do fall over on the side of your bike and Pierce that then say good night to all the rest of your gear in your bag you're going to have 4 lers of water in there so I like to have it somewhere a little bit higher up ways to break down water pretty easy get yourself 2 L bottles of water slot them in either side and that way you've got enough but I like to carry that 4 lers with me uh just in case I break down in the woods and I ain't got no water and I need to stay there for a couple of days so it's good to carry a bit of extra water now I've tested a ton of ton of head torches and I've been really really struggling to find what I like until now and this is the Phoenix hm 65rt and it's actually a CrossCountry running um headlamp and the reason why I like it is just cuz it's got this single strap and the other reason why I like it is because it is really really bright it's 1500 lumens um it's got an exceptional battery life and it's got two different beams on it so obviously got a short Beam for when I'm just kicking around in camp at night but also two if I want to go spotlighting or point something out it's got a Max beam of 170 m which is plenty enough for what you what you need it for it has a run time on 10 Lum for about 3 300 hours uh weighs only 91 G and most importantly it's got that USBC charge port and it's waterproof I don't have to charge this when I go on multi-day trips cuz the battery lasts that long the other reason I really like it it's cuz it's got the single strap I don't like the strap over the top I know what going to stay on my head and it's actually got this really handy tight Titan Buckle at the back which you can tighten up and loosen really easy doesn't move anywhere and really really enjoy it so I highly recommend this head torch it's only 180 bucks that's not too bad and I can justify the 180 bucks going you know what I'm going to have this probably for a good 6 years they do sell replaceable rechargeable batteries so if that battery starts to lose its life I just go buy another battery and I'm good to go this thing's going to last a while so yeah really really happy with this head torch and um recommend it if you're in the market so other lighting I carry um and this is just something I need to light up camp it's the Biol light sunlight 100 solar light um nothing super powerful but it's got a rechargeable solar panel on the back um so I just sit this on the top of my bag and it charges itself and I'm yet to run this thing out it's really tough and drawable solid charge takes about 7 hours to charge it up but you can charge it quickly for about 2 hours just on the USB port it has a run time of 50 hourss so I left this running one night when I was out camping and it was still going in the morning when I woke up the next next day so really good not super bright it's only 100 lumens but tough waterproof if you just need some basic ambient lighting recommend this all all right creat Comfort time chairs it's one of the things I struggle if I didn't have my camping chair um I don't know what I would do I still remember my first real camping trip and one of my mates had these chairs and I was just sitting on the ground and I was like I have to have one um this one that I've got here is the hinox this is the chair 2 now this is the bigger version I do run a smaller version which is the chair one which is a little bit smaller if I was going to save pack weight and I needed to these are one of the things i' would probably pull but have to be a pretty garly trip for me to get rid of my chair so this particular one the chair 2 um is 46 cm long so it's not too bad and it weighs 1.8 Kil so it is starting to get on the more heavier side of gear but this one the chair 2 has a much higher back rest so it's really really comfortable so the smaller version that's only 35 cm long and that's 960 G so we lose a bit of weight there um with the chair but this one is so so comfortable one of the things I will say about these chair 1 and chair 2 they do sit quite low to the ground so if you've got sort of bad knees and you have struggle getting up you can get Sunset chair which obviously is going to be a little bit more weight but if you want more comfortable um sitting at a much higher distance recommend the sunset chair one of the things I recommend too when you buy the hinox is to get yourself some balls for your legs and what I mean by that these are little balls that slot onto the bottom of the feet of the chair and what that prevents you from doing a sinking in the mud especially if it's wet makes it really really stable on uneven ground used it in the desert in the sand used it in the snow it's not too bad used it on really muddy um surfaces and it's done the job so yeah recommend getting the balls these are one of the things if you're wanting to save some weight and you're not too fast these you can pull out and ditch there only don't weigh too much they're only a couple of grams but once again those Creature Comforts sometimes start to creep in and uh got to be comfortable all righty folks thanks for sticking with me and checking out all my gear that I take out on the trail this is my personal gear I've come to my own personal opinion of this it may not be your opinion as well but if you want to know more about it leave me a comment below I'm happy to answer any questions until then thanks for tuning in to this video and I'll see you out on the trial [Music] you

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Length: 21min 51sec (1311 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 30 2024