Lightweight tent recommendations?

Rogan, for a festival cheap wins when you stagger back to your tent to find it has been puked/pissed/shit/has a drunk lying on it.

As mentioned by fasih, the Gelert solo which can be found for £20-30 at go outdoors. They are of the lie down only type, not enough headroom to sit up in, and a bit dark inside, but worth looking into for a no worry budget summer choice that could be left at festival......
The Wild country Zep 1 you can sit up in and is nice for a single person, the Zep 2 is luxury for a single and cramped (snug for 2) but more like a 3 season tent.

For packing, as per others strap poles to frame, instead of supplied packing bag get a dry bag, neatly fold and roll the tent and cram into a dry bag, then expell as much air as possible before folding over the dry bag, you can reduce the volume quite a bit be going to a dry bag.

Got a Terra Nova Laser 2 about 12 years ago, still going strong, worth the outlay. It is getting cramped 2up now, i did look into the wild country Zeps last year and some Vangos and Force 10, Hilleberg is out of my price these days...... (the Zephyros is the budget verison of the old design TN Laser, TN bought out Wild Country)Terra Nova do clearance through there own website, i bagged a Zep 2 XL lite last year as they have dropped that model, it's larger than a Laser 2 but still under 2kg and can pack down smaller than the supplied bag it comes in.

awesome post thanks superfly

as mentioned yeah i'm looking for a late spring/summer tent for cycling with but robust enuff to stand a festival they all sound like good options! will have a good look

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Rogan, if there is a Go-outdoors near you, worth dropping in as they have a fair amount of the tents set up in store to check out and sit in, Cotswold camping depending on store size have a couple set up.

I picked up something from the STW forum, brand called Rocktrail, came up in the monster bikepacking thread, it was a limited thing with Lidal/Aldi and a single skin summer tent that could sleep two and was sub 2kg, it was £13 at the time and falls into the "use it wreck it bin it" area of use, the solo is worth the extra and is a double skin and from reviews is pretty solid for it's price (trade off being small)

Done bivis years ago, and for super light backpacking you won't beat it, until you encounter "midge hell" then the extra weight and midge proofness of mesh doors comes into play.
I wouldn't take a posh/nice tent to a festival as someone else will ruin it, my ex-employers son likes going to NASS at Shepton Mallet, one of the group decided he didn't like one of the neighbours so while said neighbour was out he took a dump in the tent.
You have so much choice nowdays, if your budget would stretch to it....... a Solo for fetivals and shop around for deals on a Zep 1 for touring/bikepacking, small and light is one thing but there are times when having some extra room to sit up, have all your gear inside, be able to cook, pure luxury.

Bike packing tents is a good google search as this is tagged differently to touring, and bike packers tend to go for light weight kit, the main differance is touring is on road with side mount panniers and bike packing is off road with inline frame mounted bags and lighter/compact set ups for pushing the bike up mountains and throwing over deer fences. Highland Trail 440 for Scotland based mentalism off road and the the American "Great Tour Divide" for super light put yourself through living hell adventures :)

also worth considering a couple of offerings by snugpack:

ionosphere

scorpion

Just bought a Hubba Hubba nx for solo touring/the odd holiday excursion. I already have a bombproof festival/car camping setup, so this is going to be my 'lightweight' do anything tent. Will report with some first impressions tomorrow after crying at my online banking screen all morning. Might even give it a go overnight, ha.

I'm about to get the Zephyros 1 tent. Any other models I should check around 100gbp? I couldn't find anything better in that range of prices.

http://www.trekkertent.com/home/home/3-stealth.html haven't tried myself but there is a good review here http://bearbonesbikepacking.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/trekkertent-stealth-bomb-proof-shelter.html

I've been mulling over that trekkertent for something like a month now, largely because I can't decide whether to take the heavier 40D green fabric option. Too much choice.

I think I'd go for the heavier one just for the colour. I'd imagine it would be better for stealth camping. Perhaps not though. It seems really well priced compared to some other other sil nylon stuff out there. Also its a uk company which is nice

i've been mulling over that trekker too. i'd go for 40d also, still endup a 800ish gram tent with poles and pegs, which is really good for the money

40D does feel like a sensible option, as the quoted extra 50g doesn't bother me at all. I just think grey looks nicer, not too keen on green.

Just pulled the trigger on a Force Ten Helium.

Looks like a solid tent, very similar to the Laser Comp... Only 1.2kg but under £200

Will report back with findings when it arrives

This looks good....
http://www.exped.com/en/product-category/bivybags/bivybag-eventpu

http://www.tarptent.com/double-rainbow.html

^ I was very tempted by the Double Rainbow, I only went for the Cloudburst 3 because I like to spread out like a starfish in my sleep.

I've got a carbon poled 100, tiny, around 800/900g? If you think you might have sticks at your overnight spot you can leave the end poles out (another 80-100g) and just wang some bits of tree in there.
Its not really for anything other than mountain marathon valley floor use, though its had around 20 nights worth of abuse above and beyond what its designed for and no issues yet, just beware more than 25mph wind in the night = you become the pole

Having been internally debating a hooped bivi for stealth and small footprint.
I can't use one because something like this weighs less!
If hooped bivis came in at 400g i'd get one. But for 800-900g that's what my laser comp weighs.

http://www.tarptent.com/cgi-bin/surfshop1/shop.cgi?&c=detail.htm&itemid=164

That top one is basically just a jack wolfskin gossamer? But they're only £90/
http://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/jack-wolfskin-gossamer-bivvi-tent-76110007

re: hubba hubba,

Its huge. Decadent even. It packs very small though.

snugpack/wolfskin - they are remarkably similar

http://www.steepandcheap.com/gear-cache/spring-gear-sale?cmp_id=EM_SC_20150307_B_M1
Has some tents on deep discount, didn't check on models though.

That top one is basically just a jack wolfskin gossamer?

As a Gossamer owner I'd say from what I can see on google images it looks virtually identical.

Slightly OT but better asking here than starting a new thread, anyone tried any of the super-cheap surplus type goretex bivi bags off ebay?

As mentioned above I have a Wolfskin Gossamer for proper camping but I want a bivi for lightweight trips, warm summer weather and to put my bag in if I goto bothying in the cooler weather.

Just get alpkit hunka XL.

Yeah I guess I should.

A £10 bivi bag is gonna work like a £10 bivibag innit?

and now, the wild country coshee, 1400g