http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/caravans-clarkson-can-off#post-6105252 is a very carefully cropped photo!
you're going to end up on a caravan site with the sort of people who frequent such establishments.
How many caravan sites have you been to? I don't get the anti-aravan thing; they're a great idea! Far cheaper than a campervan/motorhome, And you can unhitch it and drive somewhere for diner etc. And they help reduce motorway speeds, which is better for road safety nd helps savelives.
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1 have a yearly MOT
2 Pay road tax
3 Pay rates because they are another form of accommodation
4 keep off the roads between 08.00 - 20.00
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On point number 2, only vehicles that emit more than a certain amount get charged 'road tax', caravans, don't emit anything so they don't need to. just like your bike.
a caravan won't fit in my panniers
I can't tow a caravan with my bicycle or my motorbike
for the price of this cheap £500 caravan I can stay 50 nights on a campsite
I can drive at 80mph & get 50mpg from my car without risk of being turned around & laid on my side by a big white box behind me
I can carry my house in a rucksac to the remotest parts of the world
QED caravans are shite
My brother has a caravan and to be accepted you have to wear crocs and a leather cowboy hat.
Sell it while you can.
Ignore the haters and enjoy your 'van!
But why are they all white or beige? Why not colours that blend into the landscape?
And why are the graphics and internal textiles always so minging?
£500? I nearly bought one of those a few months ago for 2.5k...
If you decide you don't want it I'll take it off your hands.
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I nearly bought one of those a few months ago .
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£500? I nearly bought one of those a few months ago for 2.5k...
Yeah we are buying off a good friend who is not worried about the cash, very lucky. Would prefer a campervan but cannot afford one. Its a bit on an experiment but worth a shot for that money.
Bloody shed dragger.
Why is my wife obsessed with getting a caravan?
She wants to join in with the swingers?
At my age she has access to all the swingers I have
*spits morning coffee*
Personally I'd prefer a well kitted out T5 or some sort of motor home but £500, that's a bargain! Can't go wrong with that. Just make sure you pull over every now and again to let the frustrated traffic behind past 😉
Where do you live. Basil?? 😆
Wow not even the fatties get this much abuse! I'm going to join in before it is socially unacceptable to abuse them too...
I camp in tents quite a bit, sometimes in campsites that have caravans in them too, and other than a slightly quicker setup and more space in the car I can't see any advantage in a caravan over a tent. You would expect that caravan users would be a grade above tent goers in the echelons of holiday accommodation but far from it; tent goers are just so much nicer human beings.
BTW I say this from the position of having spent 2 weeks a year the first 14 years of life holidaying in a static caravan in Torbay, a position possibly lower in the echelons.
I can drive at 80mph...
Not in the UK, presumably.
I can carry my house in a rucksac to the remotest parts of the world
So can I. I have a lightweight bikepacking setup, and I have a lightweight family camping setup too. My next camping trip will be with the family in the tent, cos we have to take it all on a plane.
But for a weekend away in the car, which we also do, the caravan does the same job as the tent but is much more comfortable. That's really al there is to it.
You don't have to be one of those insane old people who sit in their caravans watching telly and treat caravanning as an activity in itself. It's just camping, but comfier.
Another caravan owner here 🙂
Done a fair bit of camping over the years and its great when the weather is good but when its not its not fun
We do a lot of bike races across the UK including the MTB XC Series, 3 day tour of Wales etc and apart from a motor home the caravan is by far the best option
They are warm, dry, comfortable and you can cook a good meal easily.
Given you want to be in decent shape for a race no contest really
They are better than campervans in some respects - you get far more space, and you don't have to pack it up to go out for the day.
Wish I could afford one so my kids could experience what I experienced with my grandparents when I was young. But fear they are getting a bit old?
Bloody awful things.
However you dress it up - its still a plastic shed on wheels.
I've got four kids and going on holidays in hotels is firstly prohibitively expensive and secondly is nothing but stress getting everyone organised for the meal times etc. For us having a caravan makes us pretty flexible (we never book anything and just turn up) the kids get to make new friends and are busy the whole day which makes the whole experience more relaxing for us the parents. I've always hated camping in tents... was never able to sleep very well in them.
If we had better roads, better trained drivers (lets make towing tests/lesson cheaper and compulsory) and caravans were better designed I think it would make caravanning a lot better.
Oh and if we ditched the horrible fibreglass and wood boxes and went back to these then they would be a lot prettier:
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Caravans are ace just for the names. Great way to pass miles of motorway.
Explorer
Great Adventure
Apollo
Wilderness Explorer III
etc
anybody know a good source for "Don't come a knockin'..." stickers ?
its still a plastic shed on wheels.
A car is a metal box with wheels on each corner
Caravans? Meh. Now, this on the other hand...
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Plus it more than pays for itself with the methamphetamine production! 😀
Spotted in a pub car park.
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its still a plastic shed on wheels.
So? Better than a bag with sticks, or a builders van, or an old person's house etc. I can make anything sound bad by using disparaging language, it proves nothing.
It's a little tiny portable house. Brilliant 🙂
Re Airstreams - they look cool but are very expensive and very very heavy. You need a truck to tow, and I think.some of them may not be towable on a normal license.
Caravans are ok, it the inconsiderate drivers that really hack me off
dawdling along at 35-40mph then when you can safely overtake they miraculously speed up to 50-55mph Grrrrrr
it the inconsiderate drivers that really hack me off
Yeah me too. Caravanning is not short of idiotic old people. I take great care to minimise annoyance to others when I tow, but many don't. But then, that goes for pretty much all motorists regardless of vehicle.
Couple of weeks ago at Kippford so we could ride Dalbeattie. Only issue was the guy who tried to overtake the "f*****g caravan" when all of the traffic was travelling at 60 behind the traffic police car.
Only other issue we have is people on dual carriageways passing slowly to take photos.
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Caravans are ace just for the names. Great way to pass miles of motorway.Explorer
Great Adventure
Apollo
Wilderness Explorer III
Not forgetting the optimistically, and generally not eponymously, titled:
"Swift"
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"Rapide"
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Worked for a customer once, neighbour had a plastic tupperware van on drive,no wheels just plastic bags on hubs, reason being the steel wheels fo rusty, the neighbour told me, when he heard me joking that it must be a static van.Pointless.
Then you see them covered with a tarp, again why, you cant disguise its a caravan.
onehundredthidiot nice
People sometimes take wheels off because tyres can develop a flat spot over the winter. Also the cover is obviously not to disguise the thing, it's to protect it against weathering and keep it lasting longer.
Some people really want to hate on this thread, to the extent of choosing the worst possible interpretation of events when more reasonable ones make more sense. Confirmation bias in fine form.
I like camping, and bivvying for that matter, the caravan is just another way of spending time in nice places, mainly high summer when the midgies are at their height and the tent can be stuffy. Id like a camper but I do too many miles.
Those two small vans look ace, I like a simple van. The europeans do some nice vans aimed at the outdoor person rather than the traditional caravanner.
Enjoy it aa, looks like you got a bargain and almost national colours!
Airstream caravans just look like giant posh toasters to me.
I wonder if all the caravan haters on here are childless? Just a hunch 'cos people generally seem less bothered about being cool once they've got kids.
Been mulling over getting one myself tbh.
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Another packed camp site
Another beautiful view destroyed by recreational Minkiers.
🙂 For a few days it was [i]our[/i] view, then we were gone and nothing was lost.
