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Go Fast Camper’s New SuperLite Hard Shell Roof Top Tent

While we’ve all been staying local, our minds are out on the road. Summertime is for road trips and part of that experience is camping along the way. At least for us. While ground tents get the job done, it’s hard to deny the allure of sleeping anywhere you can park your car in a roof top tent. Be it at the trailhead, bike races, or at a basecamp for hub-n-spoke rides or bicycle tours, lightweight, easy to deploy RTTs are taking over. Go Fast Campers have just announced the lightest tent with the biggest interior and thinnest, most compact design on the market.

The SuperLite is just 80lbs, which is light enough for one person to install. It has a massive sleeping area of 50″x90″ thanks to the wedge design and features panorama windows on three sides with a screen option. Best of all, when it’s closed up, it’s only 6″ thick, so you can still pull into garages and carports.

Pricing starts at $1299. The SuperLite is available now for pre-order with an estimated fulfillment beginning in November 2020 just in time for holiday travel. Hey, let’s hope 2020 has some weeks of salvageable travel!

Reportage By: Erin Lamb & Jen Whalen

LACK OF FOCUS AND ORGANIZATION: BFFs, Bikes, and the Alps

The following trip report is also available on Amazon Kindle, for ease of bookmarking…

Day 1: Wienerwald or bust!

JEN: Good decisions can be made on a whim. That’s how I found myself on this spontaneous bike trip in Europe. It all started in Vienna, Austria. My friend Bun Daniel, also from Los Angeles, was there, visiting and working with BBUC (short for Brilli Brilliant Unicorn Club), and had offered for me to stay with him. I had plans to go to Spain 3 weeks later but the space in between was yet to be determined. That space in-between turned out to be a great adventure. My bike partner in crime and fellow California Girl, Erin Lamb, flew out from Santa Barbara to meet me. We had one mission – to satisfy our appetites for some asphalt spaghetti draped on the Alps.

Reportage By: John Watson

Radavist Road Trips: Trippin’ Out at White Pocket in Northern Arizona

Geological wonders are the largest attraction for Cari and myself to Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. The Kanab, Utah region has countless zones that look like they’re straight from a science fiction film. One of the most popular being the Coyote Butte region and “the Wave.” The problem is, with popularity comes demand and thus, human impact. From people walking on the crypto soil to toilet paper and even the wear and tear on the delicate Navajo sandstone from walking on its surface. The Bureau of Land Management throttles visitors to this space by running an online lottery, four months in advance, or an in-person at the Kanab BLM office, for the following day. Each morning, hundreds of people show up for the Wave lottery, or one of the other Coyote Butte zones; North and South.

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Mountain Flyer Magazine Featured Our Road Trip

“Ask Sean Talkington how he got his 1970 Volkswagen van ready for a 550-mile road trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, and he and his traveling partners will bust out in laughter — we’re talking good, hearty guffaws.

He changed the oil, and checked the brakes, “but nothing too major,” Talkington says. In other words, hardly anything, and the team that was headed for Interbike on behalf of Mission Workshop and Acre, piled it up with bikes and camping gear (including Talkington’s Tempur-Pedic-style packable mattress), took the gamble and headed for Sin City.”

Check out more at Mountain Flyer and Sean, let’s do that again!

Reportage By: John Watson

Ride Along: Hanson Little and His Dodge Sportsmobile

Leaving your nest ain’t easy, especially when your home town has been good to you. Hanson Little used to be a pro BMX rider – on paper – he still rips and takes trips from time to time, but his days of going big are limited by past injuries and the desire to keep on the bike, not healing off it.

Recently, Hanson bought a van and sold all of his belongings, save for a few bicycles. He plans on spending a great deal of time on the road over the next few months, but before he left town, I met up with him and shot some photos of his new mobile digs.

This weekend, I sent over some interview questions, which he promptly replied to… check them out below in a special Ride Along!