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Can bike tourers tell me about their experience with stealth camping?
I've done some tours and I'm sick and tired of paying $100 to pay for a motel room everynight. I want to try to camp with a tent from here on out, but I have no clue about how to go about stealth camping
I haven't done it, but from what I've read online:
1. Nice guy routine
Don't even stealth camp. Just look presentable and talk to people at a church or police office. Explain you are on a multi-day bike ride and are looking for a safe place to set up your small tent. Cops might direct you to a nearby park, and even tell a night patrol car to keep an eye out on you for safety. A church will probably tell you you can sleep on their lawn and maybe use their bathroom.
2. Typical stealth camping
Just hop off the bike somewhere that isn't near homes, walk 15 feet into the woods, and set up camp. Nobody is looking for you, and the chances of someone walking by are slim.
But, if you do it in a public park or nature preserve, there's a chance you'll be woken up by a pissed park ranger. Worst case is a small fine that is less than a hotel. Nobody is going to haul you away in a cop car, so who gives a shit? Just act apologetic and leave.
3. My primary concern about stealth camping
Ticks and lyme disease. Unlike a dedicated camp site, you might walk into a spot swarming with ticks (after dark), and wake up totally f**ked. Lyme disease has exploded in the last two decades, it's worse than people realize. If you are touring in tick country, be very afraid.
If I was going to stealth camp, I would spray the tent, my shoes, socks, pants with permethrin. And, yes, I wouldn't walk into the woods without shirt tucked into pants tucked into socks in shoes all sprayed with the nasty shit. Then I'd get into an enclosed bivvy, also sprayed with the shit, and sweat myself to death overnight. lol
Seriously watch out for lyme. It's not even the disease that's so bad, but the cure - powerful antibiotics that will permanently fuck you up
>>971608
hmm I hadn't thought about ticks. I'm in Southern Ontario, I don't hear about it much but I know there are ticks out here.
I think the church idea is a good one.
>>971608
>>971611
Ticks like wet areas with lots of Deciduous trees. The ticks live under the fallen leaves and lay eggs under them. Ticks do not like evergreen forests, forests where the ground is covered in pine needles, because they can't hide and survive under pine needles as well as leaves.
So to avoid ticks, camp in a spot that is on a hill in a pine forested area with lots of pine needles, rocks or dirt as ground.
I'd also advise you to buy some...
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Is throwing up or feeling naseous after a long ride or a ride during a hot day normal for you guys?
I just did my normal commute ride today where I go up a big hill to get home. It's work to get up it, but I usually have no issue
Today it was 85 degrees and i had gotten a free taco bell taco like an hour and a half before, and i got halfway up the hill and had to stop because i thought i was going to throw up, and had to walk part of the way back up
>>971521
You are weak and or fat. Keep pedaling fatso
It's pretty common when you're unfit
>>971521
Could be dehydration, so make sure to drink some water. Don't gulp huge amounts in one go, it's more effective to take small sips regularly.
I got this beaut' for $100. Exactly the same model but with 9spd Dura-Ace and a CK headset. How'd I do /n/?
Without pics your story is of dubious coolness, bro.
>>971116
Pretty sweet man but is that lugged carbon frame or what? I would flip it or part it out on ebay b/c I don't want to die
Good score for 100 bucks
Hows it ride?
People go bonkers for Colnago C40s which are carbon lug
I come to /n/ for fun and to answer questions. When I have a question of my own I don't usually ask because I don't want to get trolled. So I went to BikeForums.net to ask a question and got way more trolling than I expected.
So here's your chance. Troll me as much as you can. Seriously, it's OK I really do want you to.
I'm predicting this thread will be mostly ignored.
(Also, Riding Troll looks like a pretty good idea for an app.)
best solution is to upgrade form a shitty suntour to a fox fork.
Wd-40 stops disc brake squeal
bikes with saddles above handlebars aren't usable bikes
/n/
What do you wish you had known before you bought your first mountain bike?
>>970565
that 29ers are harder to manual than 26 and 27.5 due to the longer chainstay and generally longer stock stems making it more difficult to position your weight correctly over the back wheel.
There really is a reason for having a dual suspension xc mtb.
You can always case your rim and pinch straight through your tire(even tubeless). Getting stranded with one shredded tire doesn't seem like it could happen with a heady tubeless tire but it can. It always can
My first mountain bike is still kicking (kinda) 18 yrs later so I guess I didn't do too bad.
Anyone here in the cali area thinking about starting to drive for uber?
Uber pay is shit once you substract for mileage.
I make 1500 a week with it.
Prius.
Am I the only one who can only ride bikes when I'm high as fuck?
>>966709
/thread
I feel weak when riding while high. I'm also too paranoid.
Riding drunk though.. now that's fun.
>>966705
if your not high do you just fall off or something?
What does /n/ think of 27.5+ bikes? I'll be getting pic related in about a week.
>>961864
>fatbike with suspension fork
into the garbage it goes.
Fatbikes were interesting when they were an alternative to XC skis for backcountry winter touring.
These days people seem to regard them as a "lifestyle choice". Some kind of bizarre fashion statement. "Look at me, I'm so RANDOM and DIFFERENT XD"
Okay m9. If that's what girds your giggles.
But it's fucking stupid.
>>961870
It's not a fatbike you nog, it's a thickbike
>>961870
I find that people that tend to buy fatbikes are just dudes browsing through a random sporting goods store and like the big wheels then slap a padded seat on it
So I just found this beauty but I am quite skeptical about the price. Thoughts?
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-road-bike/ville-de-montreal/titanium-ultegra-53cm-complete-bike/1166351416?null
>>971226
I'm not clicking your virus, but /n/ hats Ti because we believe useful and good are mutually exclusive. If you buy something better than gaspipe BSO it needs to be loud crackle crabbon, why would anyone with money be on a bike at all? The only reason is cosplay as team movistar and they use crackenpop crabbon. As you can hear from my loud ass frame I definitely am not trying to use my bike for transport
>>971264
Go meme somewhere else, kid.
Anyone?
Looking for a good race bike, used and under 1k CAD. Thoughts?
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-road-bike/ville-de-montreal/specialized-s-works-m4/1171686111?null
That's the ugliest frame I've ever seen. Also that looks like 10 speed ultegra, going by the five arm crank. But then again for canadian monies I dont know if it's a lot or a little.
>>970944
FD/RD are 11sp Ultegra, crank is 10sp 105. You're right, ugly as fuark though.
>>970944
No it's a 11 speed and I don't care about the frame, as long as it is aluminum.
That's around 760 USD
