philsknees wrote:I always lock my bike even on remoter small islands following a conversation with the cycle hire guy on Barra several years ago. Bikes he hired out were regularly "appropriated" by the local yoofs as a handy way to get home at closing time.
If you're camping between a local hotel and a village that's a fair point, but if you've chosen a remote dune-top reverie it's a bit of a non-issue. Also the case that Barra with its 1100 population and several distinct villages is a teeming metropolis compared to the likes of Muck (27 people), Eigg (105) and Canna (21) where "closing time" has possibly less meaning...
So I don't own the only one! Never seen another out on the road (or Power Lizard for that matter), always get admiring glances from other campers when the Vaude's go up in double quick time!
I'm pretty sure I owned the predecessor to this one. It was the same shape but bright orange and single skin. It also had the most hilarious set of instructions for achieving an erect tent. I believe it was the scorpion II. We had to ditch it in 2014 when him indoors joined the rest of us on a cycle camping tour when we had a 3 person tent. It gradually delaminated itself during the (luckily dry) trip.
So I don't own the only one! Never seen another out on the road (or Power Lizard for that matter), always get admiring glances from other campers when the Vaude's go up in double quick time!
I'm pretty sure I owned the predecessor to this one. It was the same shape but bright orange and single skin. It also had the most hilarious set of instructions for achieving an erect tent. I believe it was the scorpion II. We had to ditch it in 2014 when him indoors joined the rest of us on a cycle camping tour when we had a 3 person tent. It gradually delaminated itself during the (luckily dry) trip.
Yours was a different model altogether from that description. If I remember rightly they did several tents that looked similar, Taurus range, Hogan range and yes, something like Scorpion 1 season stuff.
Mine is actually a 2002 Taurus SL which is green, double skinned, no outrigger poles/guys just two poles which you can't get wrong. Great tent which I really should use more.
Convention? what's that then? Airnimal Chameleon touring, Orbit Pro hack, Orbit Photon audax, Focus Mares AX tour, Peugeot Carbon sportive, Owen Blower vintage race - all running Tulio's finest!
So I don't own the only one! Never seen another out on the road (or Power Lizard for that matter), always get admiring glances from other campers when the Vaude's go up in double quick time!
I'm pretty sure I owned the predecessor to this one. It was the same shape but bright orange and single skin. It also had the most hilarious set of instructions for achieving an erect tent. I believe it was the scorpion II. We had to ditch it in 2014 when him indoors joined the rest of us on a cycle camping tour when we had a 3 person tent. It gradually delaminated itself during the (luckily dry) trip.
Yours was a different model altogether from that description. If I remember rightly they did several tents that looked similar, Taurus range, Hogan range and yes, something like Scorpion 1 season stuff.
Mine is actually a 2002 Taurus SL which is green, double skinned, no outrigger poles/guys just two poles which you can't get wrong. Great tent which I really should use more.
Convention? what's that then? Airnimal Chameleon touring, Orbit Pro hack, Orbit Photon audax, Focus Mares AX tour, Peugeot Carbon sportive, Owen Blower vintage race - all running Tulio's finest!
foxyrider wrote: Mine is actually a 2002 Taurus SL which is green, double skinned, no outrigger poles/guys just two poles which you can't get wrong. Great tent which I really should use more.
I thought it was probably the thought process for later tents -mine was around 1995 and the single skin was pretty adventurous but I loved the experimenting with the humpback shape and minimal poles and light weight. The shape is very similar to your one and I thought quite distinctive (not that I'm an expert but I looked at the shape of your tent and it was very familiar and I don't see many of that style). Mine was single pole together with a strap running all the way underneath end to end to brace the hump. You could squeeze two friendly people in and that's basically why I bought it.
Jezrant wrote:I'm new to this concept of taking photos to show off your tent. It's just a place to pass the night.
May help a discussion with other people regarding some features/likes-dislikes/pitching options/etc.? Forums are about discussion and exchange of ideas, not just "showing off"
Is that what forums are about? All this time I thought it was just about showing off, point-scoring and slagging off strangers anonymously from the safe distance of your keyboard.
Jezrant wrote:I'm new to this concept of taking photos to show off your tent. It's just a place to pass the night.
May help a discussion with other people regarding some features/likes-dislikes/pitching options/etc.? Forums are about discussion and exchange of ideas, not just "showing off"
Is that what forums are about? All this time I thought it was just about showing off, point-scoring and slagging off strangers anonymously from the safe distance of your keyboard.
some people live with optimistic views, others seem to need negativity all the time...
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are...
