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Hi,

Planning a trip from UK to Indonesia and wondering what tent to get. We've whittled it down to the cultishly popular Nallo 3GT or the Mountain Equipment Dragonfly 3XT, which looks like it might bear up a bit better in a breeze with its crossed poles but still has the spacious porch and is a couple of hundred cheaper. We've borrowed a different Mountain Equipment tent last year and found the quality excellent (although apparently you have to tape the seams yourself), but all the hardcore cycle tourers seem to rant endlessly about the benefits of the Hilleberg.

Does anyone with experience of either of these tents care to advise?

Hi, the only comment I can make is about the biggest benefit my Nallo 2 has for me, which is its awesome pitch ( and strike) time. It is by far the quickest tent to put up that I have owned. From the back of the bike to a viable shelter takes me on my own about 200 seconds (not that I count this sort of thing you understand...
Either you will think that's an advantage or you won't...