Show us your support vehicle

I'm curious to know what some people are using as their support vehicles for Dual Sport events a long distance from home, be they RV, truck or car and trailer.

I'll start things off with mine.

When I have a dedicated place to stay (ie: a friend's house, prepaid hotel, ect...) I use my trusty 1995 Ford Ranger XLT 4x2 to get my "Torch" (1995 XT 350) anywhere over 150km away.



When "camping" is called for I travel in something a bit more "luxurious", my 1990 Dodge Ram 3500 Van




Anything under 150 or so km away I just ride there and then ride home after wards.

We have a 1992 Toyota Hilux dual cab UTE for transporting my bike to and from enduro's and our farm. Photo's not working now but I wil have them up soon.

Got the photo's working so here's the Hilux.

Here it is with my WRR and now sold CRF230F on the back.

And again.

Heading to a rally with one of the other bikes.

Nice bed extender Chris.

Sam: The Hilux seems to be very popular over there, almost every picture I've seen of Australia's small towns and cities has at least one in them.

I'm taking the van into a tranny shop this morning... Darn thing's rear end is letting go. *sigh* It's just money right?

My ride when I'm not out chasing fires. I also have the trailer but it's been taken away to a safe place until the threat of fire is gone.

Until yesterday it was my Tacoma:


Right now, R² is my sole mode of transportation.

macfast wrote:

What make is that carrier of yours?

"The Moto-Tote" Ihave had it about 11 years.

My support vehicle....

Toyota Tundra

cell phone pic of my current stuff....taken at the dealer when i bought my bike.
04 silverado and my 5x10 trailer i modified to carry 2 full size atvs. with this set-up i can haul 2 atvs and 2 bikes(in the truck)...or various combinations of them

The faithful cruiser... sometimes it goes places the bikes quiver

This is all the support we need....

SpaGuru wrote:

This is all the support we need....

Sweet....

Spa, lol. nice. What do you do for a living? army?

I own a pool & spa business.....

haha obviously you say? Just thought from your parachute jump photo, that hummer & MASSIVE trailer I was thinking army... Nice set up again :]

LOL! Parachute jump!

Here's my Discovery that gets me everywhere I need to go right now until i get a R². Its pretty good
at hauling the family around too.

It's rare that we haul a bike, but it does happen occasionally. Here's ours.
It's a 1963 Mercedes Benz Unimog 404s. It's slow, but if it can't get there, then you'll likely need tracks, or a floatation device.

It comes in many guises. Sometimes it's a bike hauler. Sometimes it carries landscaping supplies (since we can't seem to stop landscaping and renovating the @#$%#$ yard and house). Most often it carries our camper and then uses the trailer when required to rescue a bike.





Our Unimog gets on well with others and usually sports the home built pop-top camper shown here with a few others on a trail ride at http://www.northwestmogfest.com/


Being the 404 model, ours is considered a 'small' unimog. Here it is next to a 'large' U2450 model. If you can imagine it painted green, then you may recognize it as 'Dino Hunter' from the movie 'Jurasic Park'. This blue Unimog was in the movie and is owned by a dealer in Oregon.


More info on the Unimog can be found at http://www.volkswagenhaven.net

my friends and i call it the hannah montana fun van... or HMFV for short. cost $500. it's a 200,000 mile '92 12-passenger G30 with the 3 rows of seats ripped out. we welded chocks to the floor and can haul 2 track bikes plus camping gear and support equipment for an entire weekend in (reasonable) comfort.