Those of you that use a proper tent, where do you pack it?

By proper tent I mean a double skin shelter using proprietary poles or similar

The only tent I'd use for bikepacking (at the moment) is a Tarptent Scarp 1. I could carry the pole in my half framebag but the little poles that give the ends support mean the inner/outer it doesn't pack down very well, it doesn't 'scrunch', so I'd have to use a bar bag.

Problem is that I haven't used my bar bag in a good few trips now, I've been using a pack. I realise that I could put my tent in my pack but it's not a very big pack and wouldn't fit, which would mean using a different pack etc

I'm planning/hypothesising here, my last few trips have been bivy only with a small tarp in my pack just in case, so interested in what other users do

In my bar bag (also a Scarp 1)

On my bar harness. Force 10 Helium 200, or if with a friend a alpkit Jaran 3. Do try to split the 3 man with a friend though

In my gorilla cage for it weighs next to nothing and packs very small- i have an inner and an outer
tent poles in the seat post - they can rattle a bit [ descents in particular] even when i have tried to wrap them to prevent this

the 4 man gets strapped to the top tube - weight of this is 1.5kg but its bulky despite being lightweight- pole in the seatpost again

Terra Nova Solar Photon 2

Inner, outer, footprint, pegs in a dry bag on handlebar cradle
Poles in framebag

Top red dry bag in the photo below
(lower red dry bag contains sleeping bag and dry clothes)
Untitled by Asposium, on Flickr

Solplex (with poles and pegs) lives in my Sweetroll.

Greetz

S.

We've a Big Agnes Copper Spur 2 man tent https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk ... tent-p6728. I started a thread about lightweight tents a few months ago which might be worth searching out.

When we take it bikebacking we split it between us: outer and poles; groundsheet, inner and pegs. The split gives each of us roughly half the weight of the tent - it only weighs 1570g! The fabric bits get packed in whatever's deemed the "wet" bag, this last weekend I had the outer in the seat bag. The poles are tricky as the main frame is shock-corded as one. Some of the poles are pre-bent plus the point in the centre* is a spider. This means that they are a bit bulkier than you'd expect when folded. The folded poles with spider are 500mm long so a bit much for most frame bags - I carry them tucked in behind the bag in the handlebar harness.

* It's not the exact centre, more the point where two separate poles would cross.

Asposium ... liking your set up I clicked on the pic and scrolled through a few of your others, then came across something disturbing. I zoomed in .... not sure if this has seen the light of day before.

TheBrownDog wrote:Asposium ... liking your set up I clicked on the pic and scrolled through a few of your others, then came across something disturbing. I zoomed in .... not sure if this has seen the light of day before.

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TheBrownDog wrote:Asposium ... liking your set up I clicked on the pic and scrolled through a few of your others, then came across something disturbing. I zoomed in .... not sure if this has seen the light of day before.

Great to see Stuart enjoying himself

To be fair Scott he was in great humour the whole of the weekend ,that must have been taken either after his puncture or one of the many times he was waiting for me to catch up

Tent in seat pack with poles and pegs in frame bag.

alpkit ordos 2
on my bars. it is not very big.

Holy crap Stu, is your ( identical twin) brother the leader of the opposition?

Ahhhh looks so happy

TheBrownDog wrote:

Mine goes in the front dry bag, tightly cinched up with Voile straps under an Alpkit confucious bar