Reddit reviews Coleman Camping Stove | Sportster II Dual Fuel Backpacking Stove, 1-Burner, Green
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Portable stove delivers robust cooking power in a compact designDelivers 10,000 BTU and fits pans up to 6 inches in diameterDual Fuel technology gives you the option of using Coleman Liquid Fuel or unleaded gasolineAll Season Strong technology and wind baffles for reliable performance in harsh weatherUltra-compact design fits easily in a backpack
i use this.
i then carry gasoline in a fuel container that can be used in the stove or as spare gas.
used it for 6 weeks straight, on a motorcycle camping trip across the US. works well, boils water MUCH MUCH faster than an alcohol stove. and it fits inside my camp pot.
trust me, don't go with an alcohol stove for moto camping. i use one for backpacking but the half pound saving isn't worth it when motorcycling. plus the extra 5 minutes to boil a decent amount of water isn't worth it.
jetboil is nice but its function is too limited and its cost is ridiculous. the minimilist iso-pro stoves are nice but those containers are hard to come by in the middle of nowhere. if you carry an extra, it takes up more space than a dual fuel stove, so you're not saving any space.
the msr whisper lite is nice. i hear good things about the international version that allows a larger variety of fuel, mainly poor quality gasoline.
the stove i use has better heat control than all of the stoves i mentioned, is the cheapest, the fastest stove to boil (if you use a proper pot), and allows you to use a multipurpose fuel (gasoline) that can be used in your bike in an emergency.
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If you don't have a cooker or lantern already I can recommend this and this. They both run on shellite ($20 for 4L) or unleaded petrol in a pinch (I think in America you call it 'gas' -- No idea how you differentiate between petrol and LPG tho :P).
Tools - wrenches, sockets, vice grips.
For a more complete check list see this guy's [packing list] (http://www.backcountrydiscoveryroutes.com/WABDR-Packing-List)
So when it comes to keeping it under $500, don't sounds so blue as $500 can get you a longs ways if you shop around.
Unfortunately not any I know of.
If you're looking for cheap and abundant fuel, I like the Vargo hexagon wood stove that I use on occasion for it's weightless and limitless free fuel. The stainless steel version is reasonably priced and the weight doesn't really matter on a bike.
If cheapness is paramount, make an alcohol burner (see http://zenstoves.net/ - I prefer something of the "super cat" style), and carry a gallon of denatured alcohol for $8 from the hardware store. A gallon of fuel takes up a lot of space in bike luggage, so maybe go for the smaller 1 qt cans and buy a new one at hardware stores along the way.
As for using petrol, it's stinky and messy. Unless you can rig some kind of stove to heat off your exhaust, I'd avoid it. And if your bike's tank is like mine, the baffles might make it difficult to siphon unless you've got a nearly full tank. But, if you insist, there are cheap knockoffs of the MSR products here and a knockoff coleman but for the same prices as the real thing.
https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Sportster-Dual-1-Burner-Stove/dp/B0009PUQAU
I have this stove, it's only ever ran on 87 pump gas. Boils great, 87 is a lot higher octane than Naptha, or white fuel, so it ends up a bit sootier than using Coleman Fuel.
You need to look up the specs of your specific stove though. There are different combinations of multi-fuel.
I've used one around the home for most of my life... cooking at the table is very popular in Asian cultures (Hotpot, BBQ, Shabu-Shabu), which is why you can easily find the canisters at Asian markets. But even though I have one, I've never bothered to bring it out of the house.
They use butane canisters, so they're not great when the weather gets cooler (less than 40F). The stove's ratings are also on the lower side at 7650 BTUs, and that will decrease with the temperature. In comparison, the MSR Pocket Rocket is listed as 8200 BTUs, my Coleman propane dual-burner is 15,000 BTUs and unaffected by colder weather. If I were going to buy one today, I'd consider the Camp Chef Everest which puts out 20,000 BTUs per burner. If you're actually cooking, and need to leave a pot on the stove for any length of time, dual burner stoves with built in wind screens make it so much easier.
Generally when I'm car camping, I'm cooking for several people and the big dual burner stove makes it so much easier, cooking pancakes, eggs and hash browns on one big griddle using both burners. We often have more than one dual-burner stove, but can also use our backpacking stoves and Jetboils for heating water for coffee and hot cocoa.
If there's only two of us, I can get by fine with a canister stove like the MSR PR (and Jetboil for drinks). It's a little more difficult to "cook" on an MSR PR since it's not as stable as a table-top stove, but it's much lighter to pack.
Melburnian mentions the Coleman Sportster 2 dual fuel stove. I've got an older model (40 years old?) that is sitting in the shed. It works fine (at least on white gas), but it's bulky, heavy, requires pumping (and more pumping and more pumping)... if I'm forced to pump, I'd rather bring along the MSR Whisperlite International which is lighter, more compact and also burn a variety of fuels.