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Van life on motorcycle

Anonymous Wed 28 May 2025 18:41:17 No.2821608 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2821617 >>2821676 >>2822758 >>2824759

Anyone try doing "van life" but on a motorcycle?

I work remote and want to ride + work. Not really looking to get a van or overland rig.

Is it possible to explore on a motorcycle but still get work done and be comfortable?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 May 2025 19:01:55 No.2821617 Report

Quoted By: >>2821618 >>2821634

>>2821608
>I work remote and want to ride + work
This will not work out if your job expects you to actually be online and doing work. Also riding "van life" is hardly a thing. You will stink, you will get miserable, you'll have to go from campsite to campsite as most won't allow you to stay longer than a week, and worst of all motorcycles require actual maintenance, esp off roading on them. If you go anywhere remotely remote you'll also have to carry extra gas just to be safe or plan everything around where gas stations are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 May 2025 19:02:56 No.2821618 Report

Quoted By: >>2821621

>>2821617
Also just to add to this your bike will 100% be a theft target with all the gear on it. Get out into the boonies and crack heads will gladly steal it or shit off it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 May 2025 19:05:08 No.2821621 Report

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>>2821618
Lmao you aren't making it to the boonies on a bike like that. Someone in the city will run you off the road and/or will hold you at gunpoint as soon as they see it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 May 2025 19:23:19 No.2821634 Report

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>>2821617
> You will stink, you will get miserable, you'll have to go from campsite to campsite as most won't allow you to stay longer than a week, and worst of all motorcycles require actual maintenance, esp off roading on them

Those are all very good points.

It just sucks that riding from hotel to hotel gets expensive very fast. Even worse, check-in at 3pm and check-out at 11am don't really fit a normal work schedule...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 May 2025 23:45:33 No.2821674 Report

Quoted By: >>2824841

I met one guy in Sequoia that was living like this. He has one of those bike top tents and would work on his laptop for a week then head into town and upload his work

Mule

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Mule Wed 28 May 2025 23:46:14 No.2821676 Report

Quoted By: >>2822741 >>2824864

>>2821608
get a job where you can ride to work

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Jun 2025 14:19:17 No.2822741 Report

Quoted By: >>2824918

>>2821676
what do you do? I rode through the SW this winter and came across a bunch of towers/repeaters in remote areas.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Jun 2025 16:50:43 No.2822758 Report

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>>2821608
>this thread again
do you really expect different replies the third tie around?
Yes, you can live of a bike. An old BMW GS or a Motoguzzi v7 takes little maintenance (valves and oil every 10.000km or so) and can carry enough shit.
Getting internet often enough to work remote is gonna be a problem, and comfort is in the eye of the beholder. Since you (repeatedly) ask in such a general manner, chances are you have little prior experience with riding and most likely, you're gonna give up the first time you get rained on.
Even riding to work in the rain isn't for everyone, and for example at my workplace, the first hints of clouds already mean 2/3 bikers take the car or bus. Now imagine having to pitch a tent in a thunderstorm. Doing it is easy (done it myself a couple of times), but most people won't exactly enjoy it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Jun 2025 13:56:43 No.2824759 Report

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>>2821608
whole point of van life is you can just drive off from a camp site or make camp by just pulling over. you can get the same level of freedom with a bike but its a whole lot harder to make camp.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Jun 2025 21:04:20 No.2824841 Report

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>>2821674
>Sequoia
The tree?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Jun 2025 22:26:04 No.2824864 Report

Quoted By: >>2824918

>>2821676
You the tower dude in Idaho?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 17 Jun 2025 03:30:43 No.2824918 Report

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>>2822741
>what do you do?
"Communications Technician", usually what I call myself. Mostly public safety and commercial (schools, utilities, etc) work.
I'm a full-service radio tech; everything from site work and installation at the ground (certified R56 installer) to the tower. Most of my work is on infrastructure equipment, but I also do some vehicle installs/upfits (law, fire, ems vehicles, utility trucks, school buses), subscriber/fleet updates, and emergency management/COMT/COML work.
Motorola, Vertex, and Kenwood are mostly what I work with on the two-way side, with some Icom, Harris, Pyramid, Tait, GE stuff thrown in.
Broadcast is mostly antenna/tower work, everything's big there. Mainly FM, some AM (those are spicy). TV's out of my budget for insurance requirements (they usually want $2M policy, bitch i ain't got that kinda budget, ABC/NBC/CBS wants $5M for working on their main transmit sites).
Shit breaks, I fix.

>>2824864
>You the tower dude in Idaho?
I've climbed towers in Idaho before. Right now I'm the tower dude in Utah. Friday I'll be the tower dude in Denver. Monday I'll be the tower dude in Steamboat. July I spend a week+ in southwestern CO doing firmware and fleet updates on nearly 1400 radios.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Jun 2025 09:07:29 No.2824936 Report

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>>2824918
Bathing in high voltage EM fields all day mmmmmmmmm how do you usually like your balls, medium rare or well done?

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