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@GideonPARANOID this sleeping setup is ace. Is the tarp fastened to the wheel with straps and then the string/tent peg is keeping the wheels upright?
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Cheers! Worked pretty well. The tarp has loops on every corner & in the middle of each edge. I folded it in half & put tent pegs through the half on the ground, then some string through the remaining two. Looped that string around the tyre once,out to a tent peg in the ground & then back to the wheel about 60° around the circumference, added a bit of stability to stop the wheel from rotating sideways.
GideonPARANOID
Two more little trips in the bag.
Rode up to just outside Northallerton to meet some friends for a night's camping. Tried the tarp & wheel setup for bivvying - it worked pretty well! Pretty much no wind that night though, & I'm not sure how well it would survive were it more blowy. Cheapo WTB slicks worked out pretty well.
Second trip is a last-minute Leeds Liverpool canal jaunt. Got the train out on Tuesday morning & stayed in Blackburn overnight. Turns out Blackburn doesn't have a huge amount in terms of tourism (quelle surprise), but it was a cheap Premier Inn. Absolutely chucked it down yesterday afternoon, but thankfully we only got properly drenched in the last twenty miles. Feel like I've seen every possible variation of canal towpath now. Glad I swapped to knobbly tyres for the trip, though there were no sections worse than the bit around Silsden which I've done a few times anyway.