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Title: Camping with the K3.
Post by: andy_c101 on July 30, 2018, 11:34:25 AM
So who says you need a modern adventure bike to go camping....
When a 'traditional tool' still does a perfectly good job!
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Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Nurse Julie on July 30, 2018, 11:40:58 AM
Looks great Andy, the perfect bike for the job I recon.
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Green1 on July 30, 2018, 01:19:00 PM
Looks a bit flatter then when I went camping on our Sammy miller meet a few years ago.
Mike the bike knows just how unprepared my dad and I was.  ;D
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Trigger on July 30, 2018, 03:02:11 PM
Nice looking bike Andy.
Mick, you should of had a couple of more beers in the pub or booked a hotel. My hotel was lovely in the New forest  ;)
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Seabeowner on July 30, 2018, 06:39:55 PM
My hotel was lovely in the New forest  ;)
But not much over £15 a night camping for two (>60 rate) in the New Forest camping. Just back.
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Green1 on July 30, 2018, 06:51:49 PM
The cheeky monkeys charged us for 2 vehicles so 2 of us were charged £40 to sleep on a pitch no bigger then 6X4
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Nurse Julie on July 30, 2018, 06:52:56 PM
My hotel was lovely in the New forest  ;)
But not much over £15 a night camping for two (>60 rate) in the New Forest camping. Just back.
If Trig had his way we would sleep in a bus shelter or on a park bench because it's FOC 🙄🙄🙄 It's me that likes a bit of comfort when away on bikes. I slummed it for years when I sailed, not unusual to spend a week or two on boats where the most modern convenience was a bucket on the deck !!!. I would slum it again now on a boat but not on a bike 😀😀😀
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Seabeowner on July 30, 2018, 07:02:14 PM
Camping with a car in good weather is definitely not slumming it these days. Slumming was camping with bike often two up, three to a tiny (usually wet) tent on trips over Europe...and I remember even them only with pleasure now!
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Green1 on July 30, 2018, 07:07:04 PM
Mike probably still has the picture of the tent I had to share with my dad that was tiny.
Thank god it didn't rain
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Green1 on July 30, 2018, 07:16:24 PM
found it two in the zigzag tent
It makes Andy's look huge

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Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Nurse Julie on July 30, 2018, 07:17:51 PM
found it two in the zigzag tent
It makes Andy's look huge

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Cosy 😀😀😀😀
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Green1 on July 30, 2018, 07:21:10 PM
It was a bit couldn't close it.
I don't plan anything properly I just wing it and hope for the best.  :)
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Nurse Julie on July 30, 2018, 07:25:07 PM
It was a bit couldn't close it.
I don't plan anything properly I just wing it and hope for the best.  :)
Yes, you do at your young age....the older you get, the more planning is needed. A week away on a bike for me would be like planning a Military Operation !!! I had to have 2 lists on the go just to plan 3 days away in Derbyshire 😪😪😪
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Green1 on July 30, 2018, 07:39:30 PM
Don't think my dad can do it anymore suffering from heat stroke coming back from Crich he got right stroppy and almost abandoned Peter.

I don't think I told him that ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Rozabikes Tim on July 30, 2018, 08:04:31 PM
Don't think my dad can do it anymore suffering from heat stroke coming back from Crich he got right stroppy and almost abandoned Peter.

I don't think I told him that ;D ;D ;D

Thought I saw Peter  going back towards Crich when I was coming home?
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: Trigger on July 30, 2018, 08:23:12 PM
The cheeky monkeys charged us for 2 vehicles so 2 of us were charged £40 to sleep on a pitch no bigger then 6X4


Mick that is stupid. Just looked up what we paid for the hotel and it was £38 per night for the two of us  :D
Title: Re: Camping with the K3.
Post by: andy_c101 on July 30, 2018, 09:03:44 PM
Good to hear everyone's experiences.
Oh, FYI, the tent is a Vango Tempest. Officially rated as a 2 man tent!
But it does pack up nice n small.

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