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FlightRisk
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PostPosted: 23:49 - 17 Apr 2015    Post subject: Camo netting for wild-camping? Reply with quote

Ok, I'm hoping to go euro touring in summer, probably solo, and was thinking maybe it would be a good idea to invest in some sort of camouflage netting to cover up the shiny bike at night when wild-camping.

I've maybe camped twice when I was a kid so I don't know if this is a good and sensible idea or have I gone bonkers paranoid? Confused
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Ste
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PostPosted: 08:08 - 18 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wouldn't bother, you don't need to worry too much about helicopters (or anyone else for that matter) actively looking for wild campers.

Choose somewhere that's suitably out of the way and nobody will see your bike, your tent, you when you're doing lines of coke, the massive bonfire you build, and whatever else it is you get up to that night.

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Tungtvann
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PostPosted: 10:05 - 18 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v76/rapidboy1/bushcraft/DSC03729.jpg
If you must, get one of these rather than camo netting. They actually have a use beyond hiding shit, and they won't be completely disgusting when they get wet.
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doggone
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PostPosted: 10:44 - 18 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Far too bulky to take on a bike.
You need:
Tent
Sleeping bag
Spare undercrackers #1
Spare T shirt #1
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G
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PostPosted: 10:54 - 18 Apr 2015    Post subject: Re: Camo netting for wild-camping? Reply with quote

I wouldn't bother - suspect it'll make you look dodgier rather than less.
Park up late, don't make a mess, leave in the morning and you should be fine.
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Ste
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PostPosted: 10:57 - 18 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reading the thread title made me think of the Brown Dirt Warrior.

https://youtu.be/9_N4nhYDmj0?t=45s

You've got a summer job working on a plantation in sunny Spain? Shifty
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rawdred
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PostPosted: 14:10 - 28 Apr 2015    Post subject: bells and whistles Reply with quote

Get some cheap bells and hang them on your bike at night, or tie tin cans to it.

If you behave, like previous answers, and don't attract attention, the chances of theft are small.

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FlightRisk
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PostPosted: 19:54 - 28 Apr 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
I wouldn't bother, you don't need to worry too much about helicopters (or anyone else for that matter) actively looking for wild campers.


Do the gypsies have helicopters now!? Shocked
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