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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">For riders that go places I believe packing the best bedroll possible on a motorcycle can do more for a motorcyclist’s overall riding experience than the sum of all parts and modifications applied to the machine. It can and will change how people ride and bring them closer to the spirit and true freedom that a motorcycle can bring.<span> </span>A bedroll gives you freedom.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I hate to say it, but a big advantage to our products over other bedding types is an Oregon Bedroll doesn&#8217;t look embarrassing on your bike. That was an important design criteria. Beyond vanity, it makes it more likely you will have it on the bike when you need it, and luck favors the prepared. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I normally stay in hotels and I found It extended my daily riding distance, I don’t have to grab a room early to make sure I get one. Just like carrying a small 1 gallon gas can in your saddlebag while riding through Mexico, pushing your luck a bit with gas stops, I can push my luck with hotel availability when I’m packing a bedroll. Short mid-day naps on the bedroll rests my neck and back and also contributes to more miles per day.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">A bedroll can have many uses beyond the obvious:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">It serves as a ‘passenger’ seat on solo saddle bikes.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">It can carry precious cargo in the very padded small interior pocket inside the bag/pillow. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">The exterior D-rings allow you to strap your jacket on a hot day onto the bedroll without struggling for elusive bungee points.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">More likely to ride more and farther knowing you are not at the mercy of hotel rooms 100%.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">With an ice pack beverages stay cold for hours.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Skip 3 or 4 hotels rooms and it pays for itself, skip more, save more.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Makes it easier for us polite guys to ask to crash at somebody’s place.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">A bike trip vacation can be a cheap vacation.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">In a serious emergency a bedroll could wrap broken arms or legs, bandages could be extracted from the fabric, the straps could make slings and tourniquets as well as It could work a drag stretcher a distance from assistance.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Drinking and riding alternative.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Impulsive and spontaneous bike trips become possible.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">If you just dropped $350 on an ultimate motorcycle bedroll, wouldn’t that make you ride more?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">If you ride distances, packing a bedroll opens your options. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Bedroll + Bike = Freedom<br />
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