Some sleeping bag sacks are sold with air tight dry bags that allow you to squish them right down, roll the top and lock it. If your bag doesn't have this feature see about a compression sack. You should be able to get a quality summer bag down to the size of a volleyball. Use compression sacks for your (clean) clothes too. Ziplock bags for dirty clothes. Happy camping.
You still lose space in your luggage bag when compressing down a sleeping bag - also you should be careful compressing Natural Down Sleeping Bags so aggressively as it will ruin the loft and reduce insulating capabilities. But definitely agree with compression sacks for clothes and extra zip lock bags for dirty clothes and rubbish!
I learned the same thing, re bag. I run a similar setup, but I stuff my tent inner and fly, sans sack, right into the dry bag where I also stuff my sleeping bag and sleeping pad (pad is in its sack, though). Thus, my “house” and “bedroom” are detachable if needed, and I can easily carry to the campsite for initial setup.
I like to keep anything I don’t want to break in the rear bag. I use soft pannier bags and when you crash (we all do if we’re doing it right 😂) items in the side bags will get mashed between the bike and the ground.
Ha true! The only thing I carry that is at risk of breaking is my drone which I keep in the rear bag amongst all my soft sleeping gear! Otherwise my camera is on my back 🤙
I should have seen this video before my ride and camp. My mistake was my left saddle soft bag where i kept my clothing, shower kit bag was rubbing against the rear tyre. After riding 20km my friend notices my shirt was in the bag was flapping and ask me to stop. The left bag was useless and i have to dump everything on the right side bag and other things have to be on top of my rear top bag, and my bike rear looks like christmas tree, hahahaha. When I reach the camping site and almost dark, it was raining heavyly and my new tent i was not able to set it up, as i m not sure how to do it, i was very lucky my friend help me to do it in less than 10min, but it was a horrible night my tent liner was wet because the delay of setting up the tent. I learn a lot of lesson on the ride and camp. It was not comfortable to ride 300+km off road with more load on the right side. As mentioned here I never tested the bike before the ride and also did not practicing setting up the tent. Bike i m using is KLX150. Thanks bro for the nice content.
Yeah a lot of times I get back from a over nighter and unpack the bike and see stuff I didn’t even use. And it’s worse when you use two or three different ways to cook, I’m more inclined to take a couple of different cooking systems just in cast one fails
I suggest using your dry bags to separate your different tasks. So when it comes time to set up your shelter you can just dump out all of the stuff to set that up. Time to cook dump out your cook set. Need your tools or 1st aid ya can dump it all out and get to work.
How ironic. When I got back from a 6 day trip and was just trying to optimize my set up for next time and sure enough, I found that leaving the sleeping bag out of the stuffsack makes a tremendous difference. Sure wish you would have made this video about 3 weeks ago😆. That made so much difference that I could have left my top bag (40L) at home since I have the Mosko backcountry 35. That was my 4th ever moto camping trip and 2nd with the Mosko. Also, great advice on riding around with your load out. I have a large field with a drainage ditch and rode up and down, side to side because I knew I would probably encounter some crazy stuff off road, boy did I ever.
Ha! That is awesome to hear mate, sounds like you had an awesome trip! Always learn something new with every trip I take, each time I get more efficient at packing up the bike! 🤙
@@TheMotoBarista Oh it was awesome. I had to go solo so that put a whole different twist on it as well, 2,700 miles. That’s what I’m shooting for as well. Pretty soon I will be able to pack In 20 minutes for a weeks trip👍
My sleeping bag goes in its compression bag and then into a dry bag. It's a down bag and I do not want it getting wet. The bag fits neatly into the back of my soft panniers. Other camping gear goes in the front.
@@TheMotoBarista Yes. A down sleeping bag should be stored out of its compression bag. In cold weather, I'll pull the sleeping bag out of its compression bag as soon as the tent is up. For most of my camping, I use the sleeping bag more like a blanket. I'm usually nowhere near requiring the full capabilities of the bag, but I have it when I need it.
Put your tent in your gear LAST, so that it's the First item you pull out, as that's what we set up first, and your items are not thrown all out scattered, and even better in bad weather.
Thinking about your order of packing is so important for this reason! The only thing that packs on top of my tent are the layers I might remove during the day!
Depends if you’re camping or not? Or if you are planning on passing through towns to restock food and water (which you would probably have to). My setup is 54L of space in the bags on the bike, plus a tank bag for bits and pieces, plus backpack for camera gear and camelback. I would use this setup for any camping trip whether it is 1 night, 7 nights or more! But it depends how minimal you like to travel!
