The Basics of Motorcycle Camping

A few activities you do on a motorcycle are likely to bring you into such close contact with non-motorcyclists as camping. Even though you might be surrounded by car traveling campers with loud kids scaring off all wildlife within a 10 kilometer radius, it's you and your motorcycle everyone will be peeking out when you not looking.

Defy their expectations by setting up camp quietly, especially if you arrive at night. Besides being a great way to show non-motorcyclists that there's a genuine human being under your leathers, getting to know other people from other places is part of the fun of camping.

But when it's finally time to break camp, clean your campsite thoroughly. Put yourself in the place of the people who will use your site next, and ask yourself how set up camp. Drown the fire, pick up all your trash and leave as quietly as you arrived. Ideally, after you're gone, no one will be able to tell you were ever there. Leave no trace. Don't look at other people and say... they don't do clean well so I don't need to do as well, set your own standards.