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This camper gets towed by an e-bike. And it has Starlink.
A 19-year-old YouTuber who goes by ENDOPRYSM set out to build the ultimate e-bike camper: a tiny hard-sided trailer light enough to pull behind an electric dirt bike, but with a real bed, a swiveling TV, LED lighting, a power station, a 160-watt solar panel and Starlink internet. They built it over a few weeks with a brother and a welder friend named Sheldon, then towed it out to a coastal bluff for a cold night watching the sunset.
Image via ENDOPRYSM/YouTube
A Steel Frame Sized for One (or Two)
It started on a whiteboard: a box about 6'5" long and 3Β½ feet wide. The crew welded square steel tube into a frame with crossbeams, bolted on old e-bike wheels, and laid real plank flooring on a plywood deck, so the inside feels like a room instead of a cargo box.
Image via ENDOPRYSM/YouTube
Light Walls and a Hand-Cut Mountain Paint Job
When a bicycle is your tow vehicle, weight is everything. The walls are a sandwich of thin wood glued to rigid foam, with wiring buried in channels carved into the foam. Then came the part everyone notices: a mountain silhouette projected onto masking tape, cut out with a razor blade, and painted under a bright orange top.
Image via ENDOPRYSM/YouTube
A Cozy Little Hotel Room Inside
A white Goodwill cabinet mounted on 2x4s looks like it's floating above the floor, with $30 of LED underglow beneath it. A tufted cushion is the bed (held down with Velcro), and a roughly $40 TV swivels toward the bed or the open hatch. The whole back of the camper lifts up on twin gas struts.
Image via ENDOPRYSM/YouTube
Solar, Starlink and Some Honest Numbers
An EcoFlow power station runs everything, topped up by the roof panel. In testing, the 160-watt panel actually put out about 64 watts, which is normal for a flat-mounted panel. After about five hours of TV and lights overnight, the battery still showed roughly 60%.
Image via ENDOPRYSM/YouTube
The Wheel That Bowed
On the first real ride, a wheel started bowing in and rubbing the body. Sheldon built wheel wells that support each wheel on both sides and welded in a much heavier axle. Lesson learned: a lap around a parking lot isn't the same as miles of loaded towing.
Image via ENDOPRYSM/YouTube
A Night on the Bluff
With the new axle in, they rode out to the ocean at sunset. The camp stove wouldn't light (dinner was McDonald's, delivered by a brother), and after a few minutes of TV the builder admits it felt silly to watch a screen in front of that view. That might be the most honest camper review I've ever heard.
Image via ENDOPRYSM/YouTube
π² Towed by a Coswheel R19 electric dirt bike ποΈ About 6'5" x 3Β½' inside with a cushion bed βοΈ 160W solar + EcoFlow power station π‘ Starlink on the roof ποΈ Thrifted floating cabinet + LED underglow πͺ Full-width rear hatch on twin gas struts
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