This is for all you whiners out there suffering in the last throes of PMS:  What do you pack on your bike for a 3-5 day solo rally trip?   And if your other half is riding, 2-up, with you?  Or your other half is bringing the biker support vehicle?  Camping is primitive or near primitive.

Well we travel 2-up, and have to carry lots of CycleFish stuff - banners to hang around camp, and beer sticks, hats & shirts to give away, and of course the famous CF temporary tattoos).  For clothes, usually not too much, change of underwear and socks for each day, couple of shirts, and an extra pair of jeans. 

Now for the camping stuff, I do like to be comfortable... a 12x12 tent we can stand in, air mattress, and 2 chairs.  One thing we learned to save room and even be more comforatble is to forget the sleeping bags and just bring sheets and blanket to make the air mattress up like a bed.  The sheets and blanket roll up much smaller, and much more comfortable than sleeping bags.  We usually save opur old sheets just for this so we can leave them.  So between leaving the sheets, and giving away all the CF goodies, we go home much lighter.

Deb you kill me! I think Malissa does the same thing!We go bare bones on the clothes(buy shirts along the way) tent,sleeping bags,air matress....that is a must!,pillows,colapsable cooler,and some times chairs or not depending on whats planned.Usually works out good...we have done the sheets and blanket instead of sleeping bags thing before too!Don't forget shorts/trunks,flip flops,sun screen and a towel:-)

in most cases we book hotels along the way, I know I am a bit of a pussy when it comes down to it, this year we are riding from WI to WV, thats a long way to sit in a saddle, when i get there I want a shower a bed and cocktails.

I do pack 1 pair of jeanes, a few shirts, socks and underwear for each day, comfy shoes, personal crap and buy everything else along the way.

I have 2 years left until its paid off, my next one will be a bagger this I promise you. I have bags and a tbar bag but she rides like a lowered soft tail.

I am DONE with rallies. I just don't have it in me anymore. Too many posers and I've seen my fill of naked tweakers. Sorry to be a bummer...

Lucky thats a helluva lot neater than my packing jobs !!  Nice work!.

Anygody have any suggestions for a stove?
* The "Primus" type, white gas, stoves are expensive
* The Coleman type, compressed gas stoves are bulky

Colman has some small light weight propane backpack stoves, They work well and don't take up much room.
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That's pretty much the same thing I use...just buy propane somewhere near camp.

When sleeping on the ground got too hard on the body we did the motel thing for a while. Then we had a few times where we could not find a room and were forced to ride a lot longer than we wanted. So now we pull a pop up camper, and have have room to carry all the comforts we need.

Clay carries 2 camp chairs, tent, bad weather gear and one dog. Love my T-Bag! I can fit a queen size air mattress, fitted sheet, blanket, airpump (connects to bike battery), clothes, toiletries, towels, flip flops, pop-up kennel, collapsible cooler, first-aid kit and still have room for the other dog on the tank.

I just pack my good looks with the hope I can find a young sweetheart to let me in her tent. Probably why I always wind up sleeping on the ground under the stars !

Tent, air mattress, camp chair, sheet and 2 blankets, flashlight, underwear and socks, 1pair jeans and 2 old t-shirts to throw away when I purchase others along the way, toiletry's including a battery powered razor (double's as a vibrator for the wife.) and normal bike stuff. Anything else I need, I buy.

We added a CF beerstick last year to our musthaves and it works great when your wandering around the camp meeting new people. We also use the small packing bags that you suck all the air out of them when your done filling them. They work great on items that you want to have but rarely use, a great space saver and any self service car wash along the way has vacuums if you do have to get in the bags.

Have the same issues & I prefer the mature, cranky ones, so as not to get homesick.

Don't rally but do camp -
Some items that enhance safety & comfort:
1. A few shanks of parachute chord to - guy the tent in wind - put a tarp over it in heavy rain - lash down gear that refuses to go back into the places you took it out of - Lean all the Tenderfoot knots + the Teamsters Hitch
2. Gurka Knife - Does the tasks of entrenching tool, axe, & hammer + makes you feel just a little better when sleeping in bear country
3. Weather Radio - Helps when planning the trip & gives advance warning of the times you really should find shelter - Not much bigger than pack of cigarettes - Get one
4. AM Radio - ditto
5. Tarp or Poncho Liner - Really nice to sit on a dry seat 1st thing in A.M.

p.s.: Thanks for advice on stove -

camping! yeah! my son is a boyscout, so he packs me up real good!

Tent, sleeping bag, survival knife, (coat serves as a pillow), toiletries, one extra pair of clothes, personal items, matches (campfire for cooking) boyscout cooking gear (tin cup, plate and set of silverware - small frying pan and small pot) rope, (to hang my gear in bear country)... hmmm, can't think of what else off hand!

I like to keep it simple, but still my bike is loaded to the gills!