Freedom to Roam

Having a bedroll on your bike allows you to design different rides than most. Pick a direction and ride. No hotel reservations, no set in stone itinerary, just a destination. Yes, I prefer motels to camping, but having a bedroll means I can take a chance on their being a motel where I need it. Worse case? I can find a place to crash.

The Original Oregon Bedroll was born on a great solo ride in 2007, 35 days into Mexico from Oregon,  and I don’t speak Spanish.

I was not packing a sleeping bag nor camping stuff, I like hotels. I found myself wishing I had some kind of bedroll as a back up plan.

I spent hours during my ride thinking about what would the ultimate super bedroll be like? How good could a bedroll be if price was no object?

My ride was coming to a close, I missed home and had re-entered the US headed north back to the barn in Oregon.

Vegas seemed like a good overnight spot, it would take 12 or 14 hours to get there, but hey, Vegas is worth it. I finally hit Vegas at about 10 p.m. sore and tired, rolled into the first bar I found downtown.

After several hotel inquires, it became evident that the Nation Rodeo finals were in town, and there wasn’t an available hotel room in a 60 mile perimeter around Vegas. That night as I rode farther and farther North in the icy cold trying to find a room,  the super bedroll idea seemed better and better.

It took several thousand man hours dealing with the patent, branding, prototyping, testing, more testing, sourcing vendors (17 vendors, really), manufacturing, more prototypes (there were 7), marketing, and web design, and a full year later than planned we proudly present the results here on www.OregonBedroll.com.

Patrick Juell
Oregon Bedroll
General Manager
Chief Designer