I Got a Flat Tire AND Dropped My Africa Twin on My Way to Go Motorcycle Camping

Hello friends, welcome back to the Dorkside. Thanks for coming along. Today we are going camping in the Tillamook State Forest with Beards Bikes and Camping and tomorrow we're going to meet up with As The Magpie Flies and a bunch of really cool people to help clean up the Tillamook State Forest. Let's go camping. Let's go pick up some garbage. It's going to be great. Tillamook State Forest is about two, two and a half hours from me. I'm going to meet Beards Bikes and Camping up there actually at Browns Camp in the OHV area. Thanks for coming along. Let's go. Minimal, we're talking less than 10 percent chance of rain. Well it's raining and I'm in my Kalei Merakesh gear which is not waterproof. It's supposed to be mildly hydrophobic so let's see how hydrophobic is it. Just a drizzle at this point but damn it doesn't look like it's going to get better and I don't have any waterproof gear. So way to not be prepared for Oregon idiot. This is why you should never trust the weather forecast in Oregon especially in the summer but I'm actually really happy because it's been really dry and the fire danger is crazy and really needed some moisture in the air so this is good stuff. But anyway I might get a little wet today. I'm already getting a little wet. Good time. I'm coming for you Beards. There's a guy up there on the KLR wearing a Merakesh jacket and a Krios helmet so he knows how to dress. I decided to just take a little detour. Honestly just looking for a place to stop and pee. This is Hag Lake. Never been here before. There's the lake. Pretty. Thought you should see it. Pretty low. Right outside of Newburgh. Never been here. Weird how sticky it is. 20 minutes later. And uh definitely got a little wobbly coming down this hill and she is flat bro. Flat. I don't know what's up with that. It's a problem. Try pumping it back up and see how long it lasts. Maybe I can get there. Not very far out. Gales Creek gas station is five miles. I'm gonna try to make it. We'll go slow. Head shake. Oh yeah okay. We didn't make it all the way. This is not good news. I've been lucky. I'm finding places to stop every time. God we're so close. So close. Well that was like three minutes and it went all the way flat so this maybe this plan is not the safest. I may need to change the tire here. It seems to be getting worse more quickly so probably continuing to ride is stupid. So let's not do that. Oh yeah. Coming out bro. Coming out. Okay she seems to be proper. Okay that's odd. Here's the MVP of this kit. If you ever have to do this. Let's twist it a bit. Get in there. She's in there. You better hold area bastard. All right it's going. It's going. Hey she popped. Excellent. It's holding air. Let's put this tire back on. Sweet. Bruh. Bruh. Why haven't the pinch bolts still I get? I just got to pump the forks a little. Tighten the pinch bolts. We're good. I think. I'm so glad I've done this before at home. I can't imagine this being the first time I'd ever tried it. So put your own tires on at least once or twice. Now how do I find Travis? I'm an hour and a half late from when we were supposed to meet. I can't imagine he waited an hour and a half. But I'll probably go to Brown's camp because we were supposed to meet. See if he's there. If he's not. He talked about trying to get a campsite at Jones camp. I'll go there and look. And if he's not there. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do. Camp by myself. My little proper uppers. Gotta go. I'm gonna drop this back down. Handy piece of wood I found. A couple of them. Not one person stopped while I was here. Not one. Not even the person that owns this house. Oh no. Hilarious. This is my life guys. I've never actually had to pick this up by myself before. Kickstand. Might be hard with the panniers. We got it. We got it. What a day. I'm gonna assume I won't knock this over again. Put this camera away and get back on the road. Tires fixed. Adventure mischief managed. On the road again. He was not at Brown's camp where we were gonna meet. But I can't say I blame him because I'm so late. So Jones Creek is where we're gonna come next and look. So I'm just looking here for Beards to see if he's camping here. There he is. I'm gonna do it this way. I'm gonna go illegal. Don't tell anyone. Thank god. What happened? Got a flat. Had to change it. Yeah. Well I did. Yep. And it was empty. But I knew you said this was your first choice. So basically as soon as I saw there were empty sites I knew you were here. So that worked out. But I know there's a rule. You're not supposed to. You're supposed to set up your camp first. But I've earned this. I'm gonna drink it. I haven't told you the most fun part. Change the tire took about an hour. Hour and a half. And then I'm putting everything back on the bike. Tightening down this strap. And I got it back on the side stand everything blah blah. And I pull on the strap and let it go and the bike fell over. So I had to pick it up on the side of the road. And I've never done it by myself before. First time. So after going through this whole ordeal it was easy. It's so much easier than I thought if you just do this thing. But then I went to Browns and was taking a ride into the day use area there. And there's some brand new loose ass gravel. And I'm looking up for you. And my front end goes whack. Ran off the bike again. Had to pick it up again. So hopefully my chair and table are not destroyed. Cheers bro. Cheers. You definitely earned that. Oh it's still not fixed. No bro. That's what Cameron said. Yes. I had two giant beers. What is your excuse?