Hey Sidecar Mike,
Where did you get the french press thermos?
Thanks, Sam
I use an Optima SVEA 123R Climber stove that I will use forever. I carry a small litre bottle of white gas but if I am out for extended periods I can just drain fuel out of the bike and use that. I don't drink coffee so a cup of green tea n the morning with a bowl of instant oatmeal is the normal breakfast when traveling. I have a small set of nesting MSR titanium pans for cooking more elaborate dinners. I usually stop at a store just before stopping for the night and pick up dinner supplies. There are some really good 1 pan dinner recipes out there if you look. Ara has some good ones that he is letting people download for free on his website: http://store.theoasisofmysoul.com/
123R Climber:
Wow, the svea stoves are classic. I used my brother inlaws svea one summer about 25 years ago, it was noisey but always worked and could get a rolling boil pretty quick.
One of the things I like about sidecars is i can bring a bit more kit than I would on a solo bike. Here is a breakfast I made about a year ago when my brother and I did a winter camp on our sidecars
Hoe Cakes
A variation of corn pone, using boiling water instead of cold water or milk, fried instead of baked. A pinch of salt, a bit of baking powder(optional), equal parts cornmeal and boiling water.
Combine dry ingredients and add boiling water, mixing to a thick mush. In an iron skillet get a generous amount of oil or bacon grease very, very hot(popping, just short of smoking).
Dollop wads of mush into the oil, mashing them flat into patties. Fry until crisp and golden brown. Flip and do the other side.
Serve hot with honey or molasses.
The trick is to get the oil really hot and get them crisp.
Low fat, low carb, low calorie. Just my kind of breakfast . . . . and lunch . . . . and supper!
That looks sooo good.
That was from a campout where we went a little overboard with gear: cast iron cookware, 5 gallon water jug, a 9 foot tipi with poles, all hauled though snow and mud on two sidecars! Temps dropped below 17f at night. We were snug and warm inside the tipi with the fire going, though the small tipi does get a little smokey when the wind blows the wrong way. We smelled like smoked hams at the end of the weekend 🙂
A February Expedition
Andy and I loaded the 9 foot tipi and the rest of our camping gear on our bikes and headed up into the hills for a camping trip
This was the first time I had tried carrying tipi poles on a sidecar. This is far from an ideal distribution of weight, and we had trouble lashing down the poles so they wouldn’t shift. We stopped several times to adjust and secure the load.
We started seeing snow as we neared my intended destination
Unfortunately, the campsite I had in mind was clear cut recently. In place of the tall trees on a scenic bluff was a muddy tangle of slash and stumps.
We pressed on and the road disappeared under snow.
I was nearly stuck when my bike broke through thick ice into a deep mud hole.
The snow covered deep ruts making driving challenging
Eventually the heavily laden sidecar lost traction and bogged down in the s
now covered ice
We took a little hike to see if the road ahead was passable
We decided to backtrack and look for a camp site a little lower down the mountain. I chained up and we headed back down
It was getting late but we found a good camp spot
the temperature dropped quickly after night fell
Dinner was late, and we were hungry! Bratwurst, lamb and cabbage stew, hoe cakes and honey washed down with dead guy ale
After dinner we retired to the tipi for a hot whiskey night cap
lulled to sleep by the flickering fire
the fire was out when I awoke, and it was 17f inside the tipi, somewhat colder outside.
a full moon hung low in the West when I got up
Behind camp, Mt.Adams was beautiful, softly lit by the first rays of dawn
Andy made a fire in the tipi while I was wandering around. Our water jug had frozen overnight. We set it near the fire and it soon thawed enough to make our tea and coffee
I was pleased to find the eggs had survived yesterday’s ride, safely packed in corn meal
I got started making breakfast
bacon and eggs, fried taters and onions, hoe cakes smothered in honey
After breakfast we doused the fires, packed up and broke camp
We loaded the poles butts forward and added a tie down strap to cinch them tight. This proved to be much more secure and we made the trip home without needing to stop to adjust the load
and a good time was had by all
We have summer and I had been on the road these days. Snow weould be good when you ride in the dust at 30°C.
But in the snow you can not have a jump into the Pacific.
Sven
That's awesome guys, looks like a great trip.
Yep, looks like a great trip. Thanks for the report and pics, especially for us low-landers down here in Louisiana.
Lee
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