Exploring a country on two wheel is always an exciting thing, but can be quite tedious when it comes to the logistics of it! Especially, if you are going to sleep in the wilderness!
Fret not, Hank and Conor provides you some tips on what type of tent would be ideal for your bikepacking trip!
00:00 Choosing the best tent for bikepacking
00:20 A bivvy bag
04:14 One-man tent
06:42 Two-man tent
09:16 Hammock
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46 Comments
What's your favourite method for sleeping when you're bikepacking?
those alpkits are a joke. they don't breathe. wake up and your sleeping bag is soaked.
I don't get how you can call that a two man tent. Only one side door. Does one person have to climb over the other?
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Bivy bag is obsolete nowadays apart from ultra long endurance races (in dry climate!) if you lay on wet ground in the rain to sleep – you won't sleep, that's a guarantee. Small tarp over you doesn't protect from wind and splash, so you go for a bigger tarp, which can be easily taken by wind as it has no structure to keep it together in adverse weather. Plus if you have bivy and tarp to carry you may as well just take a bloody tent! It's like people wo insist on owning a monkey… Just get a kid already 😂
I think it’s a problem to lay enough comfortable and would freeze if I didn’t have enough warm sleeping bag. This have been the problems that stoped me from actually cycle a two day ride or more. Maybe this year it will happen? I have already bought two different hammocks for this but maybe a hard cycling day would help to sleep like a baby.
I think it’s a problem to lay enough comfortable and would freeze if I didn’t have enough warm sleeping bag. This have been the problems that stoped me from actually cycle a two day ride or more. Maybe this year it will happen? I have already bought two different hammocks for this but maybe a hard cycling day would help to sleep like a baby.
hi! may I know what brand is the 1 person tent?
Use a bus shelter! Or church porch…
My go-to is a combo tarp + hammock with a small trekking matress for bottom insulation. I love sleeping in a hammock, but if i don't find trees to set up i can still use a small modified folding trekking pole with the tarp to pitch a shelter basically anywhere. I love the versatility of a tarp.
My complementary budget advice : if you have to put money on an item for bikepacking, a good down sleeping bag is where you will really feel every €/£/$ invested ; plus, you will always need one, for the rest go cheap to try and find out what you love, then upgrade 🙂
Would love a tour of the car and car bed
It all looks brand new porducts to me, lol, andy outdoors YT shows you how to bike pack properly i real conditions!!
Always remember—a 2 man tent will be comfortable for ONE person. A 3 man will be comfortable for TWO People and so on
mattress must go under the bivy bag not inside
Did make me chuckle.
Bivy bag is nice, for say overnight trip where you know the weather. Tent is just mandatory to me for any significant trip, both bikepacking and hiking. You can actually bring in you stuff, do something in there, like cooking, maybe use computer or whatever and use it as shelter from elements. I think hammock is cool, but again I do think it's basically for relatively short trips. It's just not very versatile.
How are the plans going for going Cycle camping 1960s style? I have suggested this already to you and Connor seemed keen. Dawes bike with gear change on the frame, pannier bags front and back proper mudguards, toe clips and you might try it in inclement weather and try out a cape (poncho).
You get the same amount of condensation regardless if single wall or double. The inner wall just protects you from touching with sleeping system.
Hammock…you need under quilt to protect you from cold. You cannot just sleep in your sleeping bag. It crushed the insulation and you will be very cold if not hypothermic
Cool
Short poles are not essential or even desirable imo. The tent and fly are packed separately from the poles and stakes in every bikepacking setup I’ve ever used. Poles strapped along fork legs or frame tubes where width is more of an issue than length,
"Bugs don't bother in Northern Europe".
Good luck with midge when using a standard bivvy bag.
great vids but cut the foolish joking.
Hay that’s Not Part of The Deal 😂 love GCN Boyz
Was just able to get a new poles for my Big Agnes Fly Creek 1. A couple weeks ago I went out by myself with a 6 lb Marmot tungsten three-person tent because I hadn't fixed the big Agnes yet. Thank goodness for e-bikes!!
I slept in a minefield in Bosnia somewhere😂
i like a bivvy, the tradeoffs are worth it for something small and light that can just be brought along easily
Bed and Breakfast – you know it makes sense!
Gatewood Cape, carbon pole, nano net – 500g and halfway between full bivi and a tent. It's the no 1 choice for bikepacking!
Hammock section is a bit mailed in. Don’t think it was given the serious consideration it deserves. Yes, you need trees, but you don’t need flat ground. This is an advantage in many areas. You don’t need a sleeping pad. They are super quick to pitch and pack. Comfort is unmatched. Hammocks are a serious contender.
Downside of a bivi bag in northern Europe is rain; with a tarp you don't 'need' a bivi bag.
My tip. Never take any camping advice from someone who doesn't know the difference between 'the ground' and a 'floor'🤦🏼♂️
If youre in Scotland. TENT. ….Midges
YOU cannot change the WORLD by asking what it needs,…..
But You CAN change YOUR life just by being HONEST❤
I'm progressing from a train-packer to an e-bike-packer xD
It's kinda surprising that tents that are clumsy, but transportable by train, are too big to fit in bike panniers 🤔
Now I'm looking for a tent that packs small, while still big enough to fit a cot (I've had many bad experiences with inflatable mattresses, cots are so much better).
i recommend a 3 person tent for 2 people. its lighter than two 1 person tents
2 man tent, inner or outer or both. Never used a ground sheet, weighs more than the tent outer tent. Either have lot of space, or use it actually for 2.
Do not like a bivy and will never ever understand how anybody can sleep in a hammock.
How about a bike touring tent?
I'm just a pretend tree… lol
Classic Monty Python!!
Loved this ride! I also do mountain biking here in Germany — the trails are pure adventure, especially in the Bavarian Alps 🚵♂️❄️
Just get a Durston X Dome 1+ or a Terra Nova Laser compact and Jon’s down. Just over 1kg and fits between the handlebars. Why faff around with all these other options or bivvys. Also footprints aren’t needed for decent tents
Why no trailer tent?
Any shelter I can't sit up in is a nonstarter for me.
Show me a $150 dollar one person tent?
Most of the places I have bicycle-camped are good for hammock camping, and I use a tarp if it might rain
All fair comments but I take my camping advice from Swiss Tony –