Lightweight tent recommendations?

Shit me, just worked out what Hippy is up to.

Used the power of google-fu.

I like comfort, but would practice roughing it for dropping weight for that race :) good luck, something like this i will only dream about doing, even though i already have one of the kit items :)

Really stoked on my Rab Xenon X since I changed over to it from an 800 loft down jacket. The down was great too, but this is more versatile.

Also, Hahahaha:

LOL!

I was going to try doing without one, L-Dub style. But this is yet another thing I need to test out.

remember, you've got to tow this around as well..

what would jesseee do..?!

I'm going to kick you in your DVT.

Anyway it's all about Lael Wilcox now. No sleeping matt, no bivvy. Rides in a t-shirt. Sounds like just my style. I probably should book the emergency airlift now...

I'm going to kick you in your DVT.

how are you going to achieve that, puffing billy?

wheezes jhessshhheee

Lael Wilcox, sleeps in a pool of her own faeces to keep warm, quite the commitment / should be committed..

Even with most of my organs damaged beyond repair I'd still be able to chase you down and squeeze a decent clot straight into your brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PTCcBi5odc

right down to the exercise induced asthma :)

..which could only improve it's mass..

cheers jesseee :D

Just take the forum trailer and be done with it.

Making a pillow with a compressor and whatever soft shite you have left work well.

Even the saddle bag wrapped with your down/synetic jacket work well.

Ideally a sloped ground worked wonder too.

I was going to try doing without one, L-Dub style. But this is yet another thing I need to test out.

Just use a stuff sack and put whatever spare clothing you have in it. Works a treat when I wild camp.

Damn.

Scobled...

Yeah I did that touring. Not much good as a matt though.

That Lael Wilcox, scary double hard mentalist :0 ride a few thousand miles to then race a few thou more.....

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I'd like to know what those two do for a crust? I'd love to just fuck off for a few months touring and then go 'oh why not throw a month extra on for a race too'

https://gypsybytrade.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/the-end-of-the-hlc-2015-israel/

She's legend and her partner's blog is pretty great. Been reading up on the Israeli bikepacking scene.

I expect not having a mortgage or rent to worry about is a big part of being able to just up and off.

It's taken me 3 months to find work again, and it might be all over in 6 months when the new contractor takes over, so the concept of 6 months working and 6 months off is non-workable for me as you need the stash of cash to keep going and restart your life........ be different when i finish the mortgage off and don't to need to think about repayments :(

It appears the normal form is to have a killer blog page, work at it, then write a book to fund another adventure and do a dvd to sell as well, along with lecture tours.
The adventure for some begins to self fund.

I'm working on the no mortgage thing. Unfortunately that means WORKING on the no mortgage thing. I loved touring for 4 months when i got to Europe but I really liked getting home after that too. Not sure how long I could be a nomad for.

I've been mortgage free since 1998 (purchased in 1991) and still haven't gotten enough cash together to be away longer than a month at a time. Houses really are money pits.

They're just very heavy tents really eh, with extortionate camping fees.

Will sell house and buy a Terra Nova laser ultra lite batskin thin tent :)

Yeah, but I can stand up to change in mine.

These are great, I have one and its served me very well

Got a Laser 2 and a Zephyos XL lite, on the basis of the old Laser's performance and if i had the cash i would be tempted by the Ultra :)

Not so tempted by the Laser space, which you can stand up in. Think they dropped it from production.

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