Lovely ride. Did Stornaway to Butt of Lewis, down the way and back to Stornaway in about 10days.
Confused what you mean about getting off after Ullapool…
Lovely ride. Did Stornaway to Butt of Lewis, down the way and back to Stornaway in about 10days.
Good point but we put our bike’s transmission towards each other and tent then can’t get to oily bits. It’s worth hooking the fly onto bits of the bike too to stop it flying around too much.
Not sure which Big Agnes tent this is but…BritishEagle wrote: ↑28 Mar 2023, 4:01pm We’ve used various Hilleberg tunnel tents for the last 20 years and spent the last two choosing a new tent for summer touring for three of us. We were very tempted by the Wickiup et al but finally went against all our experience with the Big Agnes UL4 and are very happy with it:
Pitch inner first: surprisingly not so bad in the rain as it is quick. Also, you can pitch outer first if you use the extra floor.
Two doors are a real treat. Panniers and exit in one and cooking/exit in the other.
The inner room is vast. We can sleep any direction to suit the slope and the headroom is luxurious. A lovely, light space to spend time in in the rain.
Build quality is very good. The only con is that the tent sways in strong winds because of its height.. We have bought two collapsible tarp poles to guy it out in the wind or for an extra DL tarp sunshade. Even with all this it’s about 3kg, an excellent 3 season tent so check out the UL3 for 1-2 people.
I take your point BUT the pegs are an integral part of the tent’s structure so if I buy a four season tent, I expect four season pegs. After all, you wouldn’t buy a Ferrari and expect to have to then buy better tyres for it would you?Sweep wrote: ↑20 Mar 2023, 9:42am It's fair enough companies supplying "middling" pegs with tents I think - can understand totally why they do it so that their tents can be competitively priced in a tough market. I have a couple of tents with quality DAC poles which nevertheless came with cheapish pegs. No great problem for of course even if you have several tents you only need to buy one set of quality pegs - which aren't actually all that expensive.