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myvision
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PostPosted: 18:35 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: New tent needed Reply with quote

After this weekends antics I need a new tent that rolls up small enough to strap to the bike I'd had my old one for years can anyone recommend a decent 1 man tent problem is I'm on a budget of £100 for one.
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PostPosted: 18:41 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

A one man tent is a nylon coffin. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:46 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone got one of these?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OKCKGL2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2DTZ57VJAZY3&coliid=I1FFENRZMPNZ30&psc=1
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PostPosted: 18:50 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why a 1 man? How small/light do you need to go? The best 1 man tent is a 2 man. Vango Banshee 200 fits your budget, fits on a bike OK.
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PostPosted: 19:17 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Shaggy D.A. wrote:
Why a 1 man? How small/light do you need to go? The best 1 man tent is a 2 man. Vango Banshee 200 fits your budget, fits on a bike OK.


Yeah need to change the 1 man they're well too small.
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PostPosted: 20:45 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I bought the Banshee 200 from Go Outdoors for about 90 quid. Used it for a long weekend in Wales - it got very wet. Survived well and the little porch was just enough for my gear.
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PostPosted: 20:54 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gutted I passed on the opportunity to buy a new Banshee 200 a couple of years ago. It had been erected at a camping exhibition, and someone spilled orange juice in it - they were asking £25 tif I took it away as is.
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PostPosted: 21:02 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know nothing about tents (IMO why use a tent when you can use a B&B, and now I'm older Laughing ) but Millets have a sale on including tents, if you can stomach buying from a Mike Ashley business
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PostPosted: 21:05 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Shaggy D.A. wrote:
Why a 1 man? How small/light do you need to go? The best 1 man tent is a 2 man. Vango Banshee 200 fits your budget, fits on a bike OK.


This X 20

OP, You need a space to keep your shit dry or you will be the most miserable cnut on the campsite and no one will want to spend any time with you as you will be a bad tempered grumpy bsatirt.
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PostPosted: 21:08 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just nick one of these from the street for free. It might even come with a bonus flask of stewed tea (nineteen sugars) :

https://www.menatwork.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BT-Tent.jpg
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PostPosted: 21:29 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

On a serious note - listen to those above about a 1 man. You have nowhere to put/dry your kit.

The Vango Banshee 200 is a good tent. Also look at a used Terranova Trisar 2. You can find them for under a ton if you look. Light enough, will withstand anything short of a hurricane. I wildcamp regularly with it, on the bike. Hell, I wildcamp with a Hurricane 200 which is double the weight, but will withstand anything a UK mountain can throw at it.
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PostPosted: 21:43 - 03 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quechua, Quick Hiker, Ultra Light 2.

If you can go the extra tenner, you could get one of these. Better than a banshee 200 in every respect (I lived in one of those for 3 months). Also smaller and lighter when packed.

It's my current lightweight tent, I was in it this weekend.
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PostPosted: 03:01 - 04 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think my 3 man is a Vango Tempest and it was ~120 quid.
The 2 man should be doable for 100 and is realistically room for one plus bags, or two budding romantic partners.
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myvision
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PostPosted: 07:51 - 04 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Quechua, Quick Hiker, Ultra Light 2.

If you can go the extra tenner, you could get one of these. Better than a banshee 200 in every respect (I lived in one of those for 3 months). Also smaller and lighter when packed.

It's my current lightweight tent, I was in it this weekend.


That looks quite good could use my tarp to make a porch type area for cooking could two people fit at a push?
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PostPosted: 11:30 - 04 Oct 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

myvision wrote:

could two people fit at a push?


Yes, providing at least one of you is reasonably small and preferrably married to you.

Mrs stinkwheel and I intend to use it as a backpacking tent.

You could probably roll back the inner tent to cook in it if it became really rough but it's more just somewhere sheltered to sleep.

I'd probably be tempted to put your tarp up somewhere else to cook under so you have more head room.
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