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Sweep wrote:But what can you do with one battery dare I ask?

There's my nasal hair trimmer, travel electric toothbrush, battery operated nail clipper. I share the battery between all three, of course - gotta travel light and rough it sometimes

Frank

Looks clever but it only charges one battery at a time? Sounds very awkard. Nah, it's not awkward at all. It's handy in the tent, slotting into any space at all. But you're right, it's only 1 battery at a time. It's not fast, but then again, when I'm away on the bike, speed is generally the last th...

Hi, Just to follow up on the Ikea charger, I got one of these about 6 months ago and I find it very handy. https://www.amazon.de/Olight%C2%AE-Universal-Ladeger%C3%A4t-Magnet-Ladeadapter-Charger/dp/B01LZUDN0S/ref=pd_nav_hcs_bia_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=R9KRW9ZJ5RSEJFVX5R1P Suitable for...

I've been using a Wahoo elemnt for the past couple of months and I think it is brilliant. Currently, a data or wifi connection is required to activate a route, but Wahoo assured me that this will soon be stopped meaning that if you have an offline mapping app, such as OSMAnd, you can plot a route o...

Once Wahoo make the route processing able to occur offline, it's the perfect solution for what I need. Sorry for dragging up an old thread, but when I posted this I had been told that the Wahoo App would be updated to allow the loading of gps files without a data or Wifi connection. In other words,...

It's pretty clear my idea of just ignoring it won't work for you, but given what you say above I still don't see why you feel the need to mop the fly every day. Pete, with all respect, I don't see why you feel the need to keep harping on about the breaking down of my tent. I've always wiped down th...

This one ? If you want to make it freestanding, as in usable with no pegs, the obvious way would be to have a flexipole along each side between the main front and rear pegging points, probably threaded behind the main poles, and with a loop between the longways pole and the lower crossways pole to ...

We haven't finished yet! :D HobbesOnTour: you have effectively laid down a challenge to the forum to discover why one tent is more (and indeed very badly) affected by condensation than another. The factors we have touched upon (or not) include: Amount of ventilation Size of tent Material Prevailing...

Op here, braving the waters again! My tent in inner first, so I remove the fly , give it a shake and stuff it into it's own stuffsack. I've never bothered wiping anything. Sometimes if it was particularly wet,I'll drape it over something like a garden bench when I stop for lunch, as long as it's not...

Just because you're in a tent with wet walls doesn't mean you're wet. As long as the tent is big enough that you can sit in free space (and that it's free-standing suggests it's a dome of some description so it shouldn't be impossible) then you don't get wet. As long as the inner walls aren't so we...

I kept my Force Ten (cotton inner, nylon fly, ridge) on the basis that it reduces or even eliminates condensation and stands up in storms. I was looking at buying a new tent for this year (nylon tunnel with porch) to address the problem of weight and space. But now I'm not sure. These were 2 of the...

All you need to do is rewrite the laws of atmospheric physics. :D :D That might take a wee while, so in the meantime it's more a case of learning to live with it, as you have an excellent source of moisture (your good self) inside a watertight structure. Compare and contrast sitting inside a motion...

[ It's also possible you've just been unlucky, sometimes I'll get loads of condensation one day and hardly any the next without really noticing much difference between them. Some days you're going to get condensation whatever you do or whatever tent you use, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth see...

Any other suggestions? I have taken insurance for several years that I now realise wouldn't have covered me if something happened. Hi, you could try these guys, based in Holland but cover EU citizens, I believe - Any UK posters better hurry up! ;-) https://www.joho.org/nl/special-isis...erswerk#pre...

There's various ways to peg out a tent without, errr, pegs. .... but you'd still need to peg the porches out or they'd just hang there like curtains. I'd agree with PH that retro-fitting free-standing to your tent would almost certainly be more trouble than it's worth. I'd also agree with PH about ...