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Make sure you include an emergency budget for unexpected happenings. Mechanical issues requiring repair shop work, inclement weather conditions that may force you to seek unplanned hotel/motel accommodations, etc. This is money you will not spend but is a good idea to have in reserve.
I get to leave in a week for 30 days on a motorcycle . My GSA is packed. I'm heading west that's as far as i've Planned. I've been doing this now since nineteen seventy four. I drove my seventy three norton eight fifty commando from my basin texas all the way home to my mother's house in minnesota. I've been traveling around the country like that absolutely love it the freedom is incredible
Wow, how was your 30-day trip? That inspires me, I'm just getting back on a bike after decades off. It's a baby ADV, the CB500X, and I'm looking for routes, which is brought what brought me to this video. I live in Washington, so this may be a good first week trip. You've been riding consistently since '74? That is awesome! I have some trepidation about my skills, esp. as I've been off-road only on a mountain bike!
I usually do an after ride cost analysis like this. My 6,000 mile loop from Indiana to Washington down to California and home was 2100 and that was with 10 hotels and four nights of staying with friends really not bad considering that being two weeks worth of time. I think you did excellent cost-wise.
Nice video! My daughter and I also did the WBDR from North to South in late July this year. It was priceless and once you're on the road, it's so inexpensive that I never even considered adding up the costs. (Prepping for it is another story and I was too chicken to add up those costs.. ;-) ) We camped every night for free and, other than one breakfast, one lunch and one dinner @ gas stop towns, we cooked all of our meals. I highly recommend this trip as a vehicle to bond with your son or daughter. I'll cherish the memory forever.
I just got my first bike this year. 2020 CRF250L Rally and I was so excited when I realized that all I would need to get to go motocamping is luggage. I've been into backpacking for the past few years and I already have full camping kit. Super excited to get out there next season or later this season if possible. Thanks for making videos being transparent about finances, I come from a lower income background and traveling always seemed like something I wouldn't be able to do. I know better now though :)
When I do motorcycle trips, I don’t include food as an expense… you have to eat somewhere anyway so that never gets included in my expense sheet… and I’d drink way more beer sitting at home anyway so there is a cost savings… Here being excellent to each other…
Awesomeness! Motorcycle travel is the only way to go! My 21 day tour of Oregon and Washington, not a BDR, cost me just under $2000 including my hotel stays (almost half the cost) due to it being the wettest June-uary in history. That doesn’t include my luggage or camp gear, that was ferry, fuel, food, camping.
Me and my buddies are buying mini bikes ( kp mini 150's) and we are gunna do a ton moto camping and there 5 of us :) cheap fun and adventures 😀 here in Missouri
When you look at food cost remember to compare to what it would cost you to eat at home for the duration of the trip. Unless you eat every meal in restaurants there isn't a big difference. Cooking takes time but I see it as part of the overall experience.
It's so rad that you enjoyed your time on the WABDR, the OG BDR! That's how we got hooked on BDR too! Just wait until you do other ones cause each has their own character that is so different from the others!
It's important to also think about costs that seem general but are specifically due to off road travel. My Inreach plan is one. It's something I would not have if I stayed on pavement all day, so I tend to account for the monthly cost in trips. Another is a "fund" for unexpected repairs. I had to detour to a dealership to repair a fork leg on a BDR trip after a tip over in some rocks. To the tune of ~$300. And once you start talking about really long trips (TAT, TCAT), things like tires, oil changes, general maintenance, heck even your phone bill start to mean something.
Luggage is only part of the cost when it comes to Adventure Camping Gear, I have spent a year gathering up all of the nits and nacks to go bike camping, tent, bag, cooking stuff, ...etc.. it adds up to another pretty good chunk of change.. and yes, can vary greatly depending on what you buy (I only bought stuff when it was on sale) but I'm likely still $1400-$2000 inside the luggage.. and it's stuff I will only likely use while bike camping.. But like the luggage, it's spread over time and divided each trip. So it gets cheaper with each trip you go on, right? RIGHT?!
One thing to consider is that you have to eat whether you’re on the BDR or not or any trip for that matter so that cost is there no matter what. So I don’t like to include that because that cost as a given. If I’m going to eat out more than normal and that is the cost that I add.
Everything you said was spot on. I spend significantly less on a weeklong motorcycling trip than any other. Five days and four nights on the NEBDR cost me $72 for gas, $115 for campsites, $100 for freeze dried meals (my preferred way of traveling light), and $60 for drinks and cigars around the campfire. Compared that to the $20K spent taking the wife and grand kids on holiday to the Mediterranean. Which by the way is a Husky 701 with upgrades.
I did the trip solo. I only stayed at a "hotel" one night for $60, spent a little over $200 on gas, and ate a lot of snacks and freeze dried meals so restaurant bills were under$100. I'd roughly guess I spent around $350.
Good Info. I am about to set off on the NMBDR and I will probably have to do some rerouting if the rain gets bad. I have saved a little over twice what you spent but it will be a total of around 3K miles + - when i'm done and I will probably have to get a hotel if the rain gets too bad and also on the ride home. It will be a 14 hr trip back home and you can always add 2 hrs for rest stops and gas, minimum. Whoo boy I am excited. My first BDR trip and solo at that. A couple friends and I went earlier this year but it didn't pan out as well as we thought it would. Time for round 2
I rode the CO BDR with some buddies in Sep 2020. Expenses were similar to this. We had one motel in the middle of the ride so we could get showered and a yurt at the end so maybe and additional $20 - 30 each. This year I plan on the NM, AZ, OR, WA and ID BDRs so see you out there.
Dude. I have not done a Bdr yet but looking forward to doing so with my son. I did a 7500 mile trip cross country and man bdr is a lot less expensive and seems like more fun
I started riding last year and hope to ride Washington bdr next year on my wr250r. Been working on lots of mods for bike and gear needed to ride. I live in middle of section 3 and excited for the trip. Im 3 days away from taking the pacific coast highway trip right now.
I've never added a trip up but this past May we did a trip from Bend to Joshua Tree and back up the 1. I am guessing around $750 total, not bad for 10 days and 2500 miles on the road.
I live in NC and was thinking about doing the TAT end-to-end. I was really surprised when I was trying to add up the cost of the trip 😲. And reading what other people spent. Of course there are so many variables, like whether you use hotels, pay camp, free camp, etc.. It's right around $3000.00 to $4000.00. In that expense is shipping the motorcycle back at about $1400.00. Had to put off that trip😂.
I use $75 per day to estimate the cost of my trips. I have never packed food, so my daily estimate includes eating out which many times means breakfast and diner at a restaurant and a snack at a gas station.
We did the wabdr in a total of 1052 miles.....and i spent less thsn 125 in gas.....why are we so different....weird...im with you and definitely will be donating to the bdr...that is money very well spent..awesome experience and will definitely be doing more..already planning idaho next year...
Planning on doing Wyoming BDR and I'm budgeting $3-4K. $500 seems pretty unrealistic and not everyone has all the gear to just be ready to pack up and go. Also need to have budget for emergency breakdowns/repairs... I'll try to remember to come back here after my trip and give details of what I spent. Hopefully I've way over-budgeted so I can justify buying more stuff, lol
Yes, but as I mentioned the cost of your gear gets spread out over many trips. The expenses specifically related to this trip for what I was cataloging. Unless you're staying in hotels, there's no way you're going to spend that much. You could take a fully supported and guided trip for that.
I have done these sort of cost breakdowns as well, don't count the price of the gear. You can really save big money by doing some cooking and camping in free areas, it's a great way to take a cheap vacation!
and camping gear is good and cheap these days. walmart tents, budget camp stove from amazon, stanley boiling pot with 2 cups that fit inside is handy and fits the cheap stoves inside it which is like $15 i think, canned soups are pretty good these days for $2 or 3 per meal. In case you spent all your money on your ride and gear, it can still be done on half a paycheck
Hay thanks for the video I’ve been on the BDR 3 times this year just throw this out if you get to the east side you will pop out close by a restaurant named Whistlin jacks just passed that there’s a rd to your right called Little Naches if you turn on it there’s a trail off of it and a road it’ll take you to Raven‘s rest it’s worth going to just review thanks agin for the videos
great video mate , your doing a great job , i do enjoy motorcycling and have done for many years , there is so many ways to enjoy it . just gey out there and ride !!! .
My buddy and I did a 4 day trip I was on a ktm 500xcw my buddy used a klr650 we used Nelson rigg dual sport $129. A $30 40letter back pack i spent about $60 camping hammock with a sleeping pad and used a blanket $40 on a cook set Then when to the thrift store and bought 2 of the biggest pares of jeans I could find cut the legs off and used tarp groomets and made more luggage. Less than $300 for all the for all the gear I needed to be comfortable. You could start from scratch buy a used klr650 riding gear and camping gear 6k or less.
Did the Wyoming bdr from Cincinnati spent about a 1000 bucks and definitely could of made it cheaper, hotels and good eating. Was way cheaper then what I was expecting.
I like the old logging / winch truck at 1:02 ! If I go this dual sport rout it will be on charged on the hour . I'm thinking about 100$ and hour for trip and service from port to port ?
IDK that I have ever spent $500 on a trip if don't factor in anything bike related except gas. Once after 4 days of straight rain I got a hotel, still disappointed in myself 10 years later but not because of the money. For sure a great VALUE if your into some balanced adventuring. Nothing makes me feel all emotions like a adventure ride!
@@DorkintheRoad Thank you it’s interesting to here what other guys are spending. To compare to my spending. Lol 😆 ammo for the wife. This one won't help that much.
I found your channel because I have been wanting to do moto camping for some time now. I have bikes but only one out of them all I could use would be my Honda ct90 lol the thing is fun but its lacking in power to say the least .
If that ct90 has the low range built in like some of them do it will climb a tree if the bark would hold. If it does not have that just put a much larger rear sprocket on it and it will get you there just not very fast. Do a search for ct90 on RUclips and you will see that there are people who have traveled the world on one of those little under powered bikes. You don't have to do all of the BDR in one go you can do it in sections also.
@@DorkintheRoad That's about my thought too. I rode it this past Sunday on my DRZ just to see what it was like. I'd never ride my T7 on it after seeing how littered with rocks it was. The moon dust wasn't fun either, combined with it being relatively steep up hill (I went South).
Consider this. Having a good set of bags for my bike not only lets me tour and camp with the bike but it allows me to use the bike for other things like commuting to work and running errands. The fuel saved by taking the bike instead of the car More than covers the cost of the bags. That's what you tell your wife anyway.
So, have you considered other BDRs? I’m looking at NMBDR and AZBDR next year, provided I can still afford it after setting up the new bike. (Ps- videos are on RUclips ) So, mistaking Travis pooping for Sasquatch was epic, believable too, I mistook my chubby buddy for a bear once. We both pooped a little. 😮 Which brings me to saying thank you for giving the break down of your expenses video. Muchachas Garcia’s. (I’m not Spanish, obviously) But thank you sir, I do appreciate it. I do hope to meet you one day, then we can be two overweight bearded middle aged guys making it up as we go and talking about it for a few.
What an astoundingly condescending piece of gatekeeping. I'm always impressed by how much empathy one must lack to not even be able to imagine there being a reason for others to do things differently than they do. Bravo.
Jesus that’s crazy more expensive than I spend! Like probably by a factor of 4! I’m on a 650 getting 65 mpg and cooking pasta every night. I mean I imagine there are a lot of variables people could use to make it outrageously more expensive than you. Like hotels and paying for portage in a tour package. And variables making it cheaper than me. But yeah if $500 scares people I’d hazard to say it could be done on more like $100 with some effort.
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Make sure you include an emergency budget for unexpected happenings. Mechanical issues requiring repair shop work, inclement weather conditions that may force you to seek unplanned hotel/motel accommodations, etc. This is money you will not spend but is a good idea to have in reserve.
I get to leave in a week for 30 days on a motorcycle . My GSA is packed. I'm heading west that's as far as i've Planned. I've been doing this now since nineteen seventy four. I drove my seventy three norton eight fifty commando from my basin texas all the way home to my mother's house in minnesota. I've been traveling around the country like that absolutely love it the freedom is incredible
Wow, how was your 30-day trip? That inspires me, I'm just getting back on a bike after decades off. It's a baby ADV, the CB500X, and I'm looking for routes, which is brought what brought me to this video. I live in Washington, so this may be a good first week trip.
You've been riding consistently since '74? That is awesome! I have some trepidation about my skills, esp. as I've been off-road only on a mountain bike!
I usually do an after ride cost analysis like this. My 6,000 mile loop from Indiana to Washington down to California and home was 2100 and that was with 10 hotels and four nights of staying with friends really not bad considering that being two weeks worth of time.
I think you did excellent cost-wise.
Nice video! My daughter and I also did the WBDR from North to South in late July this year. It was priceless and once you're on the road, it's so inexpensive that I never even considered adding up the costs. (Prepping for it is another story and I was too chicken to add up those costs.. ;-) ) We camped every night for free and, other than one breakfast, one lunch and one dinner @ gas stop towns, we cooked all of our meals. I highly recommend this trip as a vehicle to bond with your son or daughter. I'll cherish the memory forever.
I just got my first bike this year. 2020 CRF250L Rally and I was so excited when I realized that all I would need to get to go motocamping is luggage. I've been into backpacking for the past few years and I already have full camping kit. Super excited to get out there next season or later this season if possible. Thanks for making videos being transparent about finances, I come from a lower income background and traveling always seemed like something I wouldn't be able to do. I know better now though :)
I hope you're able to get out there and make it happen!
Where are you from Michael?
@@RugerM77 I'm in Idaho. It's perfect for dualsports
When I do motorcycle trips, I don’t include food as an expense… you have to eat somewhere anyway so that never gets included in my expense sheet… and I’d drink way more beer sitting at home anyway so there is a cost savings…
Here being excellent to each other…
good points!
Awesomeness!
Motorcycle travel is the only way to go!
My 21 day tour of Oregon and Washington, not a BDR, cost me just under $2000 including my hotel stays (almost half the cost) due to it being the wettest June-uary in history.
That doesn’t include my luggage or camp gear, that was ferry, fuel, food, camping.
Me and my buddies are buying mini bikes ( kp mini 150's) and we are gunna do a ton moto camping and there 5 of us :) cheap fun and adventures 😀 here in Missouri
Please talk more about the bikes on the trip, how they performed.
When you look at food cost remember to compare to what it would cost you to eat at home for the duration of the trip. Unless you eat every meal in restaurants there isn't a big difference. Cooking takes time but I see it as part of the overall experience.
It's so rad that you enjoyed your time on the WABDR, the OG BDR! That's how we got hooked on BDR too! Just wait until you do other ones cause each has their own character that is so different from the others!
It's all your fault!
It's important to also think about costs that seem general but are specifically due to off road travel. My Inreach plan is one. It's something I would not have if I stayed on pavement all day, so I tend to account for the monthly cost in trips. Another is a "fund" for unexpected repairs. I had to detour to a dealership to repair a fork leg on a BDR trip after a tip over in some rocks. To the tune of ~$300.
And once you start talking about really long trips (TAT, TCAT), things like tires, oil changes, general maintenance, heck even your phone bill start to mean something.
Luggage is only part of the cost when it comes to Adventure Camping Gear, I have spent a year gathering up all of the nits and nacks to go bike camping, tent, bag, cooking stuff, ...etc.. it adds up to another pretty good chunk of change.. and yes, can vary greatly depending on what you buy (I only bought stuff when it was on sale) but I'm likely still $1400-$2000 inside the luggage.. and it's stuff I will only likely use while bike camping..
But like the luggage, it's spread over time and divided each trip. So it gets cheaper with each trip you go on, right? RIGHT?!
Yes, but only if you stop buying new stuff...which I struggle with
Hey, if you need the excuse to justify the cost, you just need to take more trips the lower the cost per trip will be.
One thing to consider is that you have to eat whether you’re on the BDR or not or any trip for that matter so that cost is there no matter what. So I don’t like to include that because that cost as a given. If I’m going to eat out more than normal and that is the cost that I add.
Everything you said was spot on. I spend significantly less on a weeklong motorcycling trip than any other. Five days and four nights on the NEBDR cost me $72 for gas, $115 for campsites, $100 for freeze dried meals (my preferred way of traveling light), and $60 for drinks and cigars around the campfire. Compared that to the $20K spent taking the wife and grand kids on holiday to the Mediterranean. Which by the way is a Husky 701 with upgrades.
I did the trip solo. I only stayed at a "hotel" one night for $60, spent a little over $200 on gas, and ate a lot of snacks and freeze dried meals so restaurant bills were under$100. I'd roughly guess I spent around $350.
Sounds right.. hauling to a bdr out of state usually runs me $800-1200 with bdr in total.. splitting gas costs helps
Good Info. I am about to set off on the NMBDR and I will probably have to do some rerouting if the rain gets bad. I have saved a little over twice what you spent but it will be a total of around 3K miles + - when i'm done and I will probably have to get a hotel if the rain gets too bad and also on the ride home. It will be a 14 hr trip back home and you can always add 2 hrs for rest stops and gas, minimum. Whoo boy I am excited. My first BDR trip and solo at that. A couple friends and I went earlier this year but it didn't pan out as well as we thought it would. Time for round 2
I live in the Tri-Cities area of Washington and have been considering doing a few sections of the trail this month before the snow starts to fall 🤞
Let me know how it went. I'm considering doing some next summer.
I rode the CO BDR with some buddies in Sep 2020. Expenses were similar to this. We had one motel in the middle of the ride so we could get showered and a yurt at the end so maybe and additional $20 - 30 each.
This year I plan on the NM, AZ, OR, WA and ID BDRs so see you out there.
Dude. I have not done a Bdr yet but looking forward to doing so with my son. I did a 7500 mile trip cross country and man bdr is a lot less expensive and seems like more fun
Awesome job! Thank you for the advice and info! 👍✌️
I started riding last year and hope to ride Washington bdr next year on my wr250r. Been working on lots of mods for bike and gear needed to ride. I live in middle of section 3 and excited for the trip. Im 3 days away from taking the pacific coast highway trip right now.
I've never added a trip up but this past May we did a trip from Bend to Joshua Tree and back up the 1. I am guessing around $750 total, not bad for 10 days and 2500 miles on the road.
I live in NC and was thinking about doing the TAT end-to-end. I was really surprised when I was trying to add up the cost of the trip 😲. And reading what other people spent. Of course there are so many variables, like whether you use hotels, pay camp, free camp, etc.. It's right around $3000.00 to $4000.00. In that expense is shipping the motorcycle back at about $1400.00. Had to put off that trip😂.
I use $75 per day to estimate the cost of my trips. I have never packed food, so my daily estimate includes eating out which many times means breakfast and diner at a restaurant and a snack at a gas station.
We did the wabdr in a total of 1052 miles.....and i spent less thsn 125 in gas.....why are we so different....weird...im with you and definitely will be donating to the bdr...that is money very well spent..awesome experience and will definitely be doing more..already planning idaho next year...
I do loads of 2 night camping trips and I end up spending more on beer at camp than all other costs combined.
Planning on doing Wyoming BDR and I'm budgeting $3-4K. $500 seems pretty unrealistic and not everyone has all the gear to just be ready to pack up and go. Also need to have budget for emergency breakdowns/repairs...
I'll try to remember to come back here after my trip and give details of what I spent. Hopefully I've way over-budgeted so I can justify buying more stuff, lol
Yes, but as I mentioned the cost of your gear gets spread out over many trips. The expenses specifically related to this trip for what I was cataloging.
Unless you're staying in hotels, there's no way you're going to spend that much. You could take a fully supported and guided trip for that.
Awesome! Fantastic! Well done Dork!!
Great vid...thanks for all that info
Always take a Ben with you on an extended trip. A Tim too. A Tim is great for a bushcraft EDC kit…….
this housewife demographic finds Tim easy on the eyes, as in "Dang!".
I have done these sort of cost breakdowns as well, don't count the price of the gear. You can really save big money by doing some cooking and camping in free areas, it's a great way to take a cheap vacation!
and camping gear is good and cheap these days. walmart tents, budget camp stove from amazon, stanley boiling pot with 2 cups that fit inside is handy and fits the cheap stoves inside it which is like $15 i think, canned soups are pretty good these days for $2 or 3 per meal. In case you spent all your money on your ride and gear, it can still be done on half a paycheck
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Thank you.Enjoyable channel.
Thanks for putting this together. Very enlightening!
Thanks for watching!
Hay thanks for the video I’ve been on the BDR 3 times this year just throw this out if you get to the east side you will pop out close by a restaurant named Whistlin jacks just passed that there’s a rd to your right called Little Naches if you turn on it there’s a trail off of it and a road it’ll take you to Raven‘s rest it’s worth going to just review thanks agin for the videos
This is the nitty-gritty stuff to watch! it IS doable!
Thanks for the video.
great video mate , your doing a great job , i do enjoy motorcycling and have done for many years , there is so many ways to enjoy it . just gey out there and ride !!! .
Thank you!
Nice Luggage👌🏻
I am buying that Luggage as well right now👍👍
My buddy and I did a 4 day trip I was on a ktm 500xcw my buddy used a klr650 we used Nelson rigg dual sport $129. A $30 40letter back pack i spent about $60 camping hammock with a sleeping pad and used a blanket $40 on a cook set Then when to the thrift store and bought 2 of the biggest pares of jeans I could find cut the legs off and used tarp groomets and made more luggage. Less than $300 for all the for all the gear I needed to be comfortable. You could start from scratch buy a used klr650 riding gear and camping gear 6k or less.
Did the Wyoming bdr from Cincinnati spent about a 1000 bucks and definitely could of made it cheaper, hotels and good eating. Was way cheaper then what I was expecting.
Amazing! Beer included….cool.
My main problem for me, Houston Texas….far from everywhere and nothing in Texas.
I'm in San Antonio. I just rode the NM BDR with a friend from Houston.
I like the old logging / winch truck at 1:02 ! If I go this dual sport rout it will be on charged on the hour . I'm thinking about 100$ and hour for trip and service from port to port ?
IDK that I have ever spent $500 on a trip if don't factor in anything bike related except gas. Once after 4 days of straight rain I got a hotel, still disappointed in myself 10 years later but not because of the money. For sure a great VALUE if your into some balanced adventuring. Nothing makes me feel all emotions like a adventure ride!
*_It great Video thanks for sharing._*
Thanks for watching!
@@DorkintheRoad Thank you it’s interesting to here what other guys are spending. To compare to my spending. Lol 😆 ammo for the wife. This one won't help that much.
I found your channel because I have been wanting to do moto camping for some time now. I have bikes but only one out of them all I could use would be my Honda ct90 lol the thing is fun but
its lacking in power to say the least .
I mean, I went motocamping on my Grom, so anything is possible I suppose.
If that ct90 has the low range built in like some of them do it will climb a tree if the bark would hold. If it does not have that just put a much larger rear sprocket on it and it will get you there just not very fast. Do a search for ct90 on RUclips and you will see that there are people who have traveled the world on one of those little under powered bikes. You don't have to do all of the BDR in one go you can do it in sections also.
Good video. That’s a very cheap week long vacation.
Would you ride the “Jungle” section again?
On my 450l, sure ;)
@@DorkintheRoad That's about my thought too. I rode it this past Sunday on my DRZ just to see what it was like. I'd never ride my T7 on it after seeing how littered with rocks it was. The moon dust wasn't fun either, combined with it being relatively steep up hill (I went South).
Great video!
Hey, thanks!
Are you out of Eugene? I’m new to Adv and looking for a club/group
Consider this. Having a good set of bags for my bike not only lets me tour and camp with the bike but it allows me to use the bike for other things like commuting to work and running errands. The fuel saved by taking the bike instead of the car More than covers the cost of the bags. That's what you tell your wife anyway.
You have eat if you stay home, so you can subtract that cost from your food costs! ( that's my story....)😃
You're not wrong.
I went around the planet (in 2011) for $3500 (including the price of the bike - no kidding)! ADVENTURE!!!!!!
That's awesome!
“Excellent “ video.
Very “Confidence inspiring “ to get out and do it…
Glad to hear it!
So, have you considered other BDRs? I’m looking at NMBDR and AZBDR next year, provided I can still afford it after setting up the new bike. (Ps- videos are on RUclips )
So, mistaking Travis pooping for Sasquatch was epic, believable too, I mistook my chubby buddy for a bear once. We both pooped a little. 😮
Which brings me to saying thank you for giving the break down of your expenses video. Muchachas Garcia’s. (I’m not Spanish, obviously)
But thank you sir, I do appreciate it. I do hope to meet you one day, then we can be two overweight bearded middle aged guys making it up as we go and talking about it for a few.
Sorry but paying to camp under any circumstance is absolutely laughable, that's the nicest way to put it
What an astoundingly condescending piece of gatekeeping.
I'm always impressed by how much empathy one must lack to not even be able to imagine there being a reason for others to do things differently than they do. Bravo.
Can’t really even count food because even if you sit at home on the couch for a week you still have to eat!
Well said,
Just a question I lived in Washington state for 22 years what does PDR mean public something roads?
BDR. Backcountry Discovery Route
Do you have a brother named chris?
How do we get raffle tickets for the norden 901 give away and what is the price of tickets?
ridebdr.betterworld.org/giveaways/bdr-norden
Camping fees? I just set up a hammock on state land next to the trail lmao
True story.
Eating at gas stations? NO WAY !! I can’t handle squirrel meat wrapped in an inner tube and those upside down, road kill pies are nasty.
Officially inspired
You can do it!
Jesus that’s crazy more expensive than I spend! Like probably by a factor of 4! I’m on a 650 getting 65 mpg and cooking pasta every night. I mean I imagine there are a lot of variables people could use to make it outrageously more expensive than you. Like hotels and paying for portage in a tour package. And variables making it cheaper than me. But yeah if $500 scares people I’d hazard to say it could be done on more like $100 with some effort.
Sure if you ride a mountain bike. Gas alone is going to run you more than a hundred bucks, man. That's just physics.
Rough numbers here...Great ADV Bike $20k. Jeep wrangler $45k. 4wd Pickup $80k. So, there's that.
I am a carnivore and could have eaten for $50. I ride with pemmican and water. Healthy and cheap
Camping fees? Never
note with these more premium bikes, you'll be using premium gas
That is what I used in the Norden. It requires premium. Still less than 200 bucks total.
Mr. Puff Puff?
I have a good supply so they don't count as a trip cost ;)
ADV. Best 250k ever spent.
You ain't kidding.
Ummm… you have to eat anyway. I say, delete that…
I had to doubletake @3:02 totally thought you said I did not poop one time 🤣
Dork go to bc… best riding…