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One guy built a tiny camper with a slide-out and mounted it to the back of his motorcycle.
The other pulled a pop-up trailer, which shouldn't have made him claustrophobic, but it dropped to 8°F.
I expected a slightly larger camper on a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX5i_swivTU

I made it to youtu.be...?t=536.

The Arcimoto MUV would be a stable arrangment, but lack the range for a road trip (w/o a pusher trailer).

Depends on how you define road trip. 40 miles here in reno can put you out in the boonies of your choice: mountains,lake, desert.

I guess none of those options to use a bike for camping would be legal in my country due to the dimensions of the box or the trailer, yet a couple of times I saw trikes pulling camping trailers.

But if I were willing to make an "unorthodox" choice to build something in-between a motorcycle and a campervan, most likely I would resort to some tricycle.

In the 1960s Micheal Webb of Archigram design the Cushicle and Suitaloon. The cushicle was three wheeled articulated framework and the Suitaloon was a room you could wear like a suit or inflate into a room.

http://hiddenarchitecture.net/wp-con...1-536x1024.jpg

https://cushicleandsuitaloone3.wordp...and-suitaloon/

Quote:

The Cushicle and Suitaloon are a pair of conceptual designs made by Michael Webb and published in the Archigram magazine in the 1960’s.

The Cushicle is an invention that enables a person to carry with them all the essentials of living – a self sustaining nomadic unit. It consists of two parts, both of which can open out and be used independently or simultaneously. One is essentially a spine-like chassis that carries all appliances needed for living. The helmet includes a radio and a mini-tv and and the food and water supply are carried in the pods attached to the chassis.

The second part is the actual enclosing, habitable element, which consists of an inflatable envelope with “extra skins as viewing screens”. (A Guide to Archigram, Archigram Archives, pp 186) There is also the option of adding additional service nodes and apparati, allowing the Cushicle unit to develop and become a part of a larger, widespread urban system of smaller personalized enclosures.

That's too much of a sci-fi nightmare...

It was the 1960s, what can you say. The future seen through a glass darkly....

I found a newer interpretation of the concept, recast as a hexapod.

https://www.yankodesign.com/images/d.../10_robot5.jpg
www.yankodesign.com/2009/05/20/top-ten-robots-that-you-never-knew-you-wanted/

It gets even worse as that hexapod...

I thought this was clever and wish the guys from the original video had done something like this.

It weighs 135 pounds, took him 250 hours, and cost $3,000, plus a free eBike and battery pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBVnuXvfNQ I finished everything due tonight. I just go to bed now?!

Tomorrow I start working on stuff due Monday or whenever?!

I have an enormous, gratuitous family tent that sets up in like 1 minute. Don't know why people are opposed to tents. Probably paid something like $40.