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why would you put your bike in a tent?
why would you wild camp on concrete?
why does it matter if your tent weighs 300g vs. 500g?
so many questions
platypus-
Bike inside tent to stop it being stolen.
Low weight can only be achieved by saving grams on multiple items. If you save 200g on a tent and save 200g on 4 more things, you've saved a kilo. Keep doing this on all your stuff and you save 4kg on the bike and maybe the same again on your gear. See the link i posted about the bubble wrap guy. If you don't save weight on a touring setup you can end up adding even more weight because you need heavy duty hubs and rims and a triple crankset to get over the Alps. . There are lots of tourers who buy everything at high Street shops and end up with an 80 lb rig. Which is very limiting.
Wild camping is useful in towns and cities or maybe in bad weather when you shelter under some sort of structure. Parks and sports grounds often have roofed structures, often with power, water and WiFi.
nick_h.
Very neat. Mine would have to be self-supporting so I can wild camp on concrete etc. And I hate stakes and guylines. I would probably copy my existing tent.
It's about 900g I think. Supposedly designed for 4 people to share when adventure racing. But it's nice for 1 person. You can put your bike in if you take the wheels off. Much of the weight is zips. It's got 4 long ones. Maybe I'd use velcro instead of zips. It wouldn't be actual velcro, it would be the stuff which sticks to itself. It doesn't have hooks on one piece and loops on the other.
https://ripstopbytheroll.com/collections/velcro-elastic/products/omni-tape