HIGH-SPEED CAMPING
Reigning Australian Motocross Champion, Todd Waters, lives a fast life on and off the track. When he isn’t competing in motocross or supercross, he’s training, fine-tuning engines in his mechanic’s workshop, brainstorming new clothing lines, catching barrels on his surfboard, thumbing emails at lightning pace, or modifying his beloved red Land Rover Defender using Snap-on Tools.
For Waters, camping is the one opportunity to truly escape the fast-paced, adrenaline-laced, entrepreneurial lifestyle he calls his own.
“When I need a break from it all, I go camping,” he tells me when we meet up on the Gold Coast. “My fiancé and I tend to head down to the beach, wake up at 5am with the sun, go for a surf, make breakfast, maybe have another nap. My phone’s off, I get away from it all and I reset. It’s good for the soul.”
But it seems that, even when camping, Waters can’t fully take his hand off the throttle. Because above his Defender’s 2in lift on progressive Kings Springs and Gabriel shocks, its timber floor fitted with Boab drawers and slides, and its black kangaroo leather dash lining and velvet hoodlining, his beloved fourbie features an Eezi-Awn Stealth rooftop tent — one of the most rapid tents to set up and pack-down on the market.
EXTERNALS OF THE TENT
The black powder-coated aluminium lid of the Stealth has flat surfaces, angled from a lower front end towards the 32cm maximum height at the rear. The facets fall into a neat diamond pattern, with the tip pointing forward, which parts the air, encouraging it up,
