Totally Consumed

Since the kids mentioned the dirt bike camping it’s all I can think about.

Where will we go?

How will we haul our gear?

Who else wants to go?

The “where” will be somewhere around Thorpe. The “how” at first was mostly me carrying a giant backpack, but I’ve refined that a bit.

Obviously a rack like this would be super useful, as well as saddle bags like this.

The kids can strap their sleeping pads to their handlebars. That’s super effective and will look super cool as they ride down the trail. Backpacks aren’t too practical for them, but maybe some kind of rack option is. They don’t make racks for bikes of their size, but that doesn’t mean I can’t make them. Both bikes have pseudo attachment points where I could affix a rack big enough and sturdy enough to carry their sleeping bags. Between their pads and bags, that’s the bulk of their stuff.

Now if this shameful mess of a winter would end, I could get started on these projects and get us all out there camping with our bikes.

– b