Most of the time when I bike tour or backpack, I don't even roll up the tent - I just stuff it into a pannier or stuffsack away from any pointy objects. On some trips, I've put my tent body and sleeping bag and as much other soft stuff as I can into the same big stuffsack (I like the sea-to-summit event ones) and carried the whole thing from the handlebar or on a front rack. Everything else can fit in a frame bag and big Carradice.
We are getting more snow here in Mass. I love snow but the streets in my neighborhood had just cleared enough as of yesterday to ride around a little. On Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 8:57:20 AM UTC-5 Eric Daume wrote: > I have a few different tents, and IME they always claim it all can fit in > the stuff sack but in practice it really isn’t worth trying to make this > happen. I just leave the poles and stakes separate. For backpacking, this > makes it easier to distribute or share the weight anyway. > > Then again, yet another frigid day, weight as well give it a go. > > Eric > In Dublin OH with a freshly built bike with <1 mile on it > > On Saturday, February 7, 2026, Leah Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The date is Feb 7th. The time is before 8am. >> >> Things have reached an all-new low. I have been re-living my bike camping >> trips on Instagram. I was also looking at the new Big Agnes tents and >> noting that the tent poles are meant to be stored INSIDE the tent bag. >> Which I have never done. And now it is me and Chat GPT, who is trying to >> tell me that if I can just roll everything up into a rectangle, I can fit >> the whole thing in my bag. I have the entire contents spilled out on my >> living room floor and am on my 3rd attempt but no success. I have a nice, >> neat folded rectangle but it turns into this, when I begin to stuff it: >> >> [image: image0.jpeg] >> >> Also, I cannot figure out how to do that cool tie to keep the guy wires >> nice and neat. A capable outdoorswoman…this is who I want to be, and yet I >> just always come out looking like the above…. >> >> I’m not giving up. I WILL get those poles inside with that tent! >> >> >> On Jan 29, 2026, at 11:16 AM, Leah Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hello, it’s me, Leah, coming to you on January 947th. We get done with >> one winter storm only to survive it and shovel out in time for the next one >> to arrive. My tenacious college boy is out there on his Clem with NO >> STUDDED TIRES, slipping and sliding and occasionally crashing, but he >> perseveres. He tells me, “There is no such thing as no bike day” and he >> worries me. >> >> To make matters worse, the meteorologists inform me that the Great Lakes >> are freezing over and that means a cold, wet spring, which is the exact >> thing I was declaring cannot happen, because If we have a vicious winter, >> we are owed a gentle spring. Alas, nature is not taking input from >> Michiganders, or even pretend ones, and it will be a long time before I’m >> back in the saddle. I was supposed to be riding with Pam and Roberta in >> Charlotte today, but we were foiled again by the weather. Charlotte is in a >> winter storm watch, and that’s how you know the world has gone crazy. >> >> Anyway, we do have Philly Bike coming up in March and I am hoping it will >> be somewhat reasonable so we can ride. >> >> >> >> On Jan 28, 2026, at 6:00 PM, Jay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, as of today there are 3 days left in January. That may just feel >> like a month lol >> >> Starting Sunday and through to next Saturday our highs are between -5C >> and -9C, which is actually really warm compared to recently, so I may get >> out for a ride after all. I'm now riding indoors and not complaining about >> it; I use Rouvy, and recent rides include Spain, France, New Zealand, Italy >> and this morning in Tenerife. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/YbDx-IuQKtk/unsubscribe >> . >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> >> >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0e5abb94-327a-4159-a880-0a560430396fn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0e5abb94-327a-4159-a880-0a560430396fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- >> > 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 [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1BFC0490-3E6B-440C-8D32-D5F7DEBF337B%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1BFC0490-3E6B-440C-8D32-D5F7DEBF337B%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4bdcfd0a-cd38-4d05-8ad5-7bc6e79bde53n%40googlegroups.com.
