For a while I was more concerned with packed size rather than weight. I care less about the overall weight I'm carrying on the bike as I am about the limited amount of space available (and how that is distributed throughout rear and front, high and low bags) on the bike. Lightweight or not, tents run the gamut of packed sizes.
Somehow I just recently realized that packed size matters a lot less if i cram all the gear (tent, pad, sleeping bag, pillow) directly in my rear bike bag rather than try and pack them all up individually in their respective stuff sacks and try and play tetris to get it all to fit. I upgraded from a medium to a large saddlesack to fit them all (packed in their respective stuff sacks). But just realized I could use a much smaller swift zeitgeist (smaller than a medium saddlesack even) and stuff them all directly in there without the stuff sacks. This helps immensely. That being said, I spend way too much money on nice gear I hardly ever use and have landed on using a big agnes copper spur ul1 with a 30" klymit statucv pad (super wide, it takes up the whole tent with litte room for extra gear in the tent w/ you) and a quilt from jacks r better. Like others mentioned, Big Agnes is great, although not MUSA, and you can go ultralight with just the footprint and rainfly (skip the tent) or use the whole kit. On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 1:46:06 PM UTC-8, BenG wrote: > > Thanks, friends. "Riding there" is the new part of this for me. We started > in a Sears tent, upgraded to a nice Eureka for 10yrs, got a second Eureka > when daughters needed some space, then went along with a pop-up camper to > preserve unity. Itching to go back to a tent, and S24O is an ideal way. > Something to keep the bugs away at night is the essence. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
