CAMP ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY AND RAFFLE!

Join us for a night of Christmas Cheer: raffle, prizes, food. Sign up “BUYING” your free spot here. The event is entirely free, but it is capped at 40 people.

Open to members and non members. We will celebrate with some jolly good time and also draw the winners of CAMP Holiday raffle, give prizes to the winners of our MotoGP Fantasy League, our Grand S'more Award and our Mileage contest.

CAMP Holiday Raffle:

$20 for CAMP members and $30 for non members - they give you a chance to win incredible prizes and donate to a just cause. Let’s look at the prizes:

• Mosko Moto 50 Liter Motorcycle duffle in black (value $280) in black/gray.

• Mosko Moto 30 liter motorcycle duffle in high desert (sand) color (value $230).

• Jetboil Minimo Cooking set (value $165) - the perfect motocamping cooking companion everyone should have.

• Mosko Moto First Aid Kit (value $149) - very complete and very cool looking emergency first aid kit.

• Mosko Moto Fatty Tool Roll plus rain cover (value $125) - So you can do like me, have 20 pounds of tools on you, and still be unable to fix what breaks.

• A free day of off road training with Heavy Enduro in 2024 (value $300): you will have a chance to improve your skills using your own motorcycle. Many CAMPers have taken this training over the past couple of years, and we all found it extremely fun, helpful and absolutely worth the money: you can do it for free! 

• Gift cards from Moto Camp Nerd, to buy whatever camping gear you need for next year. 

• $600 gift card for Temple of Moto- Temple of Moto organizes motorcycle tours that offer the best riding AND the best way to explore the great outdoors, all in one tour. Use this gift card against any 2023 tours in Baja, Yellowstone, Utah, Joshua Tree National Park, Redwoods National Park, the Black Hills, the American Southwest, Smoky Mountains. 

• A Coleman Gladiator camping stove (value $99) - this is for the car camping in all of us. The reliable stove that will last you a lifetime.

• An Opinel Nomad Cooking Kit (value $89) - perfect for motocamping and your picnics, it includes a cutting board, a serrated knife for bread, a corkscrew knife and a folding peeler, together with a microfiber cleaning cloth that also acts as a pouch to put it all together. 

• Giant Loop Possible pouch (Value $69) - strap it anywhere on your bike to carry your essentials.

• MSR Dromedary bag (value $60) - super compact and perfect for motocamping.

• 2 Opinel Knives No. 8 - one green, one purple (value $40 in total). Folding knife with a 3.28 inches blade. 

• Lifestraw water filter (value $20) - perfect if you are planning to motocamping in remote areas.

• Swag from Mosko Moto, Temple of Moto, CAMP.

Please buy your free spot for the Christmas party here.

Join us for a night of Christmas Cheer: raffle, prizes, food. Sign up on meetup or send us an email.

Join us for our CAMP December meeting / Christmas party. Open to members and non members. We will celebrate with some jolly good time and also draw the winners of CAMP Holiday raffle, give prizes to the winners of our MotoGP Fantasy League, our Grand S'more Award and our Mileage contest.

CAMP Holiday Raffle:

Tickets are $25 for CAMP members and $40 for non members, and they give you a chance to win incredible prizes and donate to a just cause. Let’s look at the prizes:

• Big Agnes Wyoming Trail 2 Tent + matching footprint (value $729.95 + taxes) - this tent is the king of motocamping - it has a vestibule big enough for you to change clothes while standing, or even put your motorcycle and all your gear in. I used the previous version of this tent on my 45 days trip to Alaska a few years ago and it was the best piece of camping equipment I owned. You will love it.

• A **free day of off road training with the folks of Heavy Enduro **in 2023 (value $300): you will have a chance to improve your skills using your own motorcycle. Many CAMPers have taken this training over the past couple of years, and we all found it extremely fun, helpful and absolutely worth the money: you can do it for free!

• A $250 gift card from our friends at Mosko Moto, to buy some of the best gear for your motorcycle.

• Thermarest mesh ultralite Cot (value $199.95 + taxes) - one of the most comfortable upgrades to your sleeping system that you can possibly have. Once you try it you won’t go back.

• Gift cards from Motocamp Nerd, to buy whatever camping gear you need for next year.

• $600 gift card from Temple of Moto - Temple of Moto organizes motorcycle tours that offer the best riding AND the best way to explore the great outdoors, all in one tour. Use this gift card against any 2023 tours in Baja, Yellowstone, Utah, Joshua Tree National Park, Redwoods National Park, the Black Hills, the American Southwest, Smoky Mountains.

• An Opinel Nomad Cooking Kit (value $85 + taxes) - perfect for motocamping and your picnics, it includes a cutting board, a serrated knife for bread, a corkscrew knife and a folding peeler, together with a microfiber cleaning cloth that also acts as a pouch to put it all together.

• Yukon outfitters mosquito hammock, with matching rain fly (combo value of $120 + taxes).

• Nelson Rigg Tool Roll (value $44.95 + taxes) to keep all your tools with you as you ride.

• 2 Opinel Knives No. 8 - one green, one purple (value $20 each + taxes). Folding knife with a 3.28 inches blade.

• Swag from Mosko Moto, Temple of Moto, CAMP, Tarnish.

Please sign up on Meetup.

Meet us at Park and Fields, in Chicago, for our November monthly meeting. The meeting is open to both members and non members who want to come and find out what we are about.

Signing up will be closed by November 14.

On the agenda:

• Update on Holiday Party and Raffle.

• Update on 2023 season.

• Update on members discounts.

• Eating and socialising.

• AOB

Please sign up on Meetup, here.

Meet us at Skadarliya, a Balkan restaurant in Brookfield, IL, for our October monthly meeting. The meeting is open to both members and non members who want to come and find out what we are about.
Signing up will be closed by October 10. Please sign up on Meetup or let us know via email that you are planning to attend.

On the agenda:

• Update on our last S'more of the season, to the Smoky Mountains.

• Update on end of the year activities (trainings, Holidays party)

• Update on 2023 season

• Update on members discounts

• Eating and socialising

• AOB

September Monthly Meeting

Meet us at Park and Fields, in Chicago, for our September monthly meeting. The meeting is open to both members and non members who want to come and find out what we are about.

Sign up on Meetup or via email (themotocampingclub@gmail.com) before September 19.

On the agenda:

• Update on our Fall activities, including motocamping trips, end of Summer BBQ, tech seminars, trainings

• Update on 2023 season

• Update on members discounts (new discounts!)

• Eating and socialising

• AOB

Meet us at Park and Fields, in Chicago, for our July monthly meeting. The meeting is open to both members and non members who want to come and find out what we are about.

Please sign up ON MEETUP or email us telling us that you are planning to attend.
On the agenda:

• Update on our motocamping trips

• Update on members discounts (new discounts!)

• Update on track days / training days

• Eating and socialising

• AOB

Meet us at Park and Fields, in Palos Hills, in the Burbs, for our June monthly meeting.The meeting is open to both members and non members who want to come and find out what we are about.

Signing up will be closed by June 20. Please sign up here on meetup or let us know via email (themotocampingclub@gmail.com) that you are planning to attend.

On the agenda:

• Update on our motocamping trips

• Logistics for the Mississippi S'more to Wyalusing State Park on June 24-27

• Update on members discounts (new discounts!)

• Update on track days / training days

• AOB

Monthly meeting + shopping event at Tarnish. Sign up here.

Our monthly meeting in May will be a special treat: meet us on May 18 at 5pm at Tarnish the store in Chicago (1948 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622) for some free food and drinks and shop the entire store at a 20% discount just for us! This is a great chance to gear up ahead of motocamping season with some seriously great apparel at a great discount! Tarnish carries some cool stuff, including brands such as Roland Sands.

The meeting is open to both members and non members who want to come and find out what we are about. Please note: the Tarnish discount will only be available to CAMP members - bring your membership card, become a member online or become a member on the spot! (Obviously you are under no obligation to buy anything).

Signing up will be closed by May 13, so as to allow our kind host to make appropriate arrangements for food and drinks: please sign up here or let us know via email (themotocampingclub@gmail.com) that you are planning to attend.

On the agenda:

• Update on our motocamping trips

• Logistics for first S'more to Yellowstone Lake on May 20-23

• Update on members discounts (new discounts!)

• Update on track days / training days

• Upcoming Motocamping 101 presentation on June 4th

• Motocamping gear exchange details

• AOB

• Shop some gear!

For April monthly meeting we are back in the burbs: we will meet at Windy City International Cycles on April 20, 6pm.

Food and drinks will be offered by the kind folks of Windy City. Non-members are welcome to join us! It will be a fun meeting because we will be holding a motocamping trivia session! The winner will come for free to a S'more of their choice, as long as there are still spots available for that s'more!

Please sign up here. RSVP will be closed on April 18 (Tax Day!) to give time to our hosts to order the adequate amount of food.

On the Agenda:

• Status of registration for all our S'mores.

• Trans Wisconsin Adventure Trail Ride update - Status of registrations

• Update on CAMP motocamping gear exchange in May

• Update on new discounts for CAMP members

• Update on bookclub

• Track day for August

• Motocamping Trivia!

• AOB

Our monthly meeting in March will be a special treat: meet us at the Fjallraven store in Chicago for some free food, drinks and shop the entire Fjallraven store at a 25% discount!

This is a great chance to gear up ahead of motocamping season with some seriously great apparel at a great discount! You can have a look at their gear here: https://www.fjallraven.com/us/en-us

The meeting is open to both members and non members who want to come and find out what we are about. Signing up will be closed by March 8, so as to allow our kind host to make appropriate arrangements for food and drinks, so sign up fast!

On the agenda:

• Update on our motocamping trips

• Opening of registration for our S'more 101 - details

• Status of registration for Yellowstone Lake (May) and Wyalusing S'mores (June)

• Opening of registration for our Upper Peninsula S'more (July) and our Long S'more at Voyageurs National Park (August)

• Announcement of a new S'more scheduled for June (surprise!)

• Trans Wisconsin Adventure Trail Ride update - Status of registrations and update

• Update on April's bookclub

• Shopping the great gear on sale just for us at Fjallraven!

• AOB

Our founder Michele will be giving a presentation about Motocamping 101. Come learn how to pack your bike, what to bring, what NOT to bring. We will have lots of gear for you to look at, and two different set ups to take inspiration from (a motorcycle with soft bags, a motorcycle with hard cases). We will talk hammocks, tents, cooking setups.

The event is open to both members and non member. Sign up on FACEBOOK or on MEETUP.

Join us at Windy City International Cycles in St. Charles to watch the first race of MotoGP. Food and drinks provided. Members and non members are all welcome. Sign up here.

Don't forget that the deadline to sign up for CAMP MotoGP Fantasy League is March 3. All info on how to sign up is here.

Deadline to sign up to CAMP MotoGP Fantasy League. All info on how to do it HERE.

Come discuss Two Up and Overloaded, with the author Tim Notier and his wife. Sign up here.

This event is open to non-members

Join us for our February CAMP monthly meeting of 2022. We will meet at Draft Picks (https://www.draftpicksnaperville.com/).

If you are not a member and you are interested in our activities you are more than welcome to come!

On the agenda:

• CAMP 2022 S'more Schedule: opening of registration for two additional S'mores

• Trans Wisconsin Adventure Ride planner

• Motocamping 101 event

• CAMP Bookclub: logistics

• CAMP MotoGP Fantasy League

• Off Road Training with Heavy Enduro on April 29

• AOB