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    Living on the road

    There’s a few good channels out there detailing the motorcycle drifter (homeless) lifestyle. It’s quite a romantic idea at first, quit your job, sell your possessions and basically freedom camp your way around the world and occasionally work for cashflow to pay repair bills.
    Cod you do it? It’s not for everyone, I’m over camping for the near future but maybe just need to harden up a bit lol
    Thoughts???
    What would be your bike choice?
    Is it doable in NZ or are we too small to hide off grid?

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    Quote Originally Posted by R650R View Post
    There’s a few good channels out there detailing the motorcycle drifter (homeless) lifestyle. It’s quite a romantic idea at first, quit your job, sell your possessions and basically freedom camp your way around the world and occasionally work for cashflow to pay repair bills.
    Itchy Boots and others actually do this. If your YouTube following gets big enough you won't have take jobs to get cash. Of course you could spend half an hour injured and pinned under your bike hoping a car turns up before a leopard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Itchy Boots and others actually do this. If your YouTube following gets big enough you won't have take jobs to get cash. Of course you could spend half an hour injured and pinned under your bike hoping a car turns up before a leopard.
    I donÂ’t think my man boobs are big enough yet to get that level of followers. She still stays in paid accommodation a lot. IÂ’m talking more of the likes of Scooter Tramp Scotty, he does some good vids on pros and cons and is of a more humble lifestyle.

    Do it for the experience not the view count.

    YouTube deleted his original channel for political comments(a small part of his videos) so hard to find a current vid that encompasses his ethos.

    This vid is a collection of interviews with him by a bike mag

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    Might have to check this out as a retirement option the way the economy is going…
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    Be hard to do from a motorcycle. Just come back from a weeks trip down south camping and 4wd. it rained on and off for the first three days and nights .Was hard to keep everything dry even with a perfctly dry wagon to work from. I only had a small tent that made it even harder.
    would be easier if you could pick and choose the days to move

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