Tents for Bicycle Touring on the Long Haul for Hunger

Looking for a tent to take on your next bicycle tour or trip? This is the option I chose for the Long Haul for Hunger, a 2 continent, 8500 mile bicycle tour in March 2009. This is a 1-man Kelty Quartz tent. This is a spacey one-person tent for all four seasons. It holds up really well in the wind and rain, has a spacey vestibule, and lots of venting inside. The sides come up nicely to keep the water out, and it weighs in at just over 5 pounds. Perfect for the Long Haul for Hunger. Check us out at http://www.theultimatetrek.com or our blog at www.recklesscognition.wordpress.com.

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[SimpleLivingSanity]

@tecnolover2642 For bike camping? Seeing the cost of the ultra lite back packing tents are out of control expensive, 5.5 lbs is not that bad really. A bike allows some flexibility. I researched for 1 year before buying an REI 2 person 5.5 lb tent on sale. The Big Agnes and other highly touted ultra lights were $290+. The REI? A sturdy REI spacious 2 person 5.5 lbs on sale... $120 including a rain fly. New. Return anytime too boot. I just can't justify $300 for a tent.

[SimpleLivingSanity]

I picked up a REI 2 person tent for $120. There was not way I was going to pay the cost of some of the Big Agnes ones, even though they were about 2.5 lbs less

[ministercreek]

For solo bicycle camping/touring I suggest the ALPS Mountaineering Zephyr 2.0 tent. This is one great tent. Plenty of room for one person and two large stake-out vestibules

[peteragain]

@Ofor012 ***

Absolutely,

Absolutely sh''t that you are not allowed to park your tent somewhere overnight and do something innocent as sleeping... People park their noisy cars everywhere overnight, and that is accepted....

But serieous distance cyclists have to sneak like thieves into the forest to commit their Crime: Getting some Sleep...

[shonenarts23]

great!!! 

[rshamann]

@peteragain : great color.

[peteragain]

Nice design but horrible colour.

Should be a law that all tents come in a green or camo version as well.

[Snakeguts]

@bedarda That's a great tent, I got a great deal on a Big Agnes Lynx Pass 2, with a Moss colored fly, great for camoflage, I'll get a summer tent for this seasons touring tho.

[bedarda]

I tour with the Big Agnes Fly Creek 2 ( $315 from HumbleOutdoors)

At under 3 lbs with footprint, this tent is light, roomy, functional, and packs real small. I also use this tent for kayak camping.

[marcandsebe]

My North Face Particle 13 tent is about 2lb and is very roomy.