Episode 88 – Planning an Overlanding Adventure!!
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Episode 88!!
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Main Topic: Planning an Overlanding Adventure!!
Overland planning
Vehicle Planning
Car Camping
Traveling in a vehicle to an established campground. If there is a picnic table there, it is probably car camping.
Back Country Adventure
A one-day or multi-day off-highway trip on an adventure motorcycle or in a 4WD vehicle.
Overland(ing)
Vehicle-supported, self-reliant adventure travel, typically exploring remote locations and interacting with other cultures.
Vehicle-Dependent Expedition
An organized, vehicle-dependent journey with a defined purpose, often geographic or scientific in nature.
Expedition Vehicle
A 4WD vehicle or adventure motorcycle prepared for self-reliant travel over long distances, through unpredictable weather and over variable terrain
Step 1. Consider your goal?
Step 2. Campsites and destinations.
Step 3. Use your resources.
Step 4. Create your map.
Step 5. Review your route.
Step 6. Share your adventure!!
Both with friends, family, companions and other adventures!
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Easter Jeep Safari!!
Listener Feedback:
I’m the guy who wants to run no spare rim but here is my story….. Buddy bought a set of “custom” beadlocks, they were trailready do yourself locks that were put on pretty nice rims. I don’t even think he ran them before I bought them off him. There were only 4, I don’t know what they started as and i’m normally a guy who wants a spare…. However getting a matching spare was going to be hard enough then there was the issue of new lock and installing it. I got thinking about the dead weight that wheel adds to my rig and money that getting another would take and decided that by building a square box that the 15″ tire would fit over I could have storage space. B building it myself i’d be into it very little money, create more storage and still have a spare, seemed like a cool way to do it.
yes swapping a tire on the trail wouldn’t be the fastest way to do it but I’d ask to use someone else’s spare if they had one that would work handy, then swap my good spare onto my rim when we got to camp or out. I do however carry electric impacts and this DIY kit allows me to push the tire right on by hand and not have to fight with a bead so breaking the back bead, taking off 18 bolts and putting it back together would be all it took to get it going. Yes time consuming but how often do most of us get flats on brand new tires? Id say not often enough for the work to be a frequent pain in the arse.
As for the DIY, my jeep isn’t my DD, but it’s also not a trail only trailered rig. If it’s just me and the fiancée going somewhere within an hour drive we take it. if dirt roads are involved I take it, and I always take it hunting. It def sees a lot of driving, I have a small shimmy at 45 that was there before the beadlocks and has increased a little now but other than that I have no issues. I do run dynabeads and did the dismounting with a buddy’s tire machine then mounted myself and didn’t have to worry about balancing due to the beads. I loctited all of the bolts and will maintain them and have no issues in my mind running them down the highway.
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