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New Big Agnes Scout 1 Platinum Tent
23 Jun 24 Miles Arbour / newsNew for this year, the Big Agnes Scout 1 Platinum is their lightest three-season tent available. Weighing in at less than a pound, this trekking pole style tent still offers a roomy interior and great ventilation. Check out the details here…
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New Dyneema Tarptent ProTrail Li Announced
26 Jun 5 Miles Arbour / newsTarptent continues to expand their Dyneema Composite tent series with their new ProTrail Li, building on over 20 years of customer feedback to make it their lightest, simplest, and most affordable Dyneema tent yet. Find details and photos here…
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Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo Review
59 May 14 Joe Cruz / gearThe Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo has won numerous awards since its introduction, and the feature spec makes it plenty appealing for bikepacking. Joe has been testing it on three continents for nearly a year, and has spent upwards of 75 nights in it. Read on to see how it has fared.
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New Dyneema Tarptent Double Rainbow Li Tent
26 Apr 24 Miles Arbour / newsAnnounced today, the new Tarptent Double Rainbow Li is an ultralight Dyneema version of their best-selling Double Rainbow tent. The tent weighs just 765 grams while still being completely weather and bug proof. Find details, a video, and photos here…
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Set Up a Tarp Shelter Using Your Bike (Video)
33 Mar 9 Logan Watts / videoTarps are easily the most lightweight, versatile, and cost efficient shelters for sleeping in the backcountry. In this video, Cycling UK’s Sam Jones shows off two ways to use your bike to set up a simple tarp shelter…
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Mountain Laurel Designs Solomid XL Review
17 Feb 12 Miles Arbour / gearThe Mountain Laurel Designs Solomid XL is a USA-made, single-pole asymmetrical pyramid shelter that weighs just under a pound and provides ample interior space. Paired with the optional InnerNet, the Solomid becomes an ultralight, bug-free tent designed to hold up well in almost any conditions. Miles has had a Silnylon Solomid XL for over six months now, and shares his thoughts here…
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Big Agnes Updates Copper Spur Tents
15 Nov 7 Miles Arbour / newsBig Agnes has announced some updates to their Copper Spur tent series, including awning-style vestibules, more internal storage, and new corner buckles to simplify set up. Check out all the details here…
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Zpacks Duplex Tent Review + Freestanding Flex Kit
14 Oct 30 Logan Watts / gearAfter several years of regular use—on bikepacking trips in Kyrgyzstan, the desert Southwest, the Appalachians, and many places in between—here’s our long-term review of the Zpacks Duplex tent and Freestanding Flex Kit…
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Tarptent Aeon Li Review: One Pound, One Person
27 Sep 11 Logan Watts / gearThe Tarptent Aeon Li (“lithium”) is a single-pound, single-pole, single-person, single-wall, half-pyramid shelter that’s extraordinarily ultralight yet still quite spacious. We’ve been testing one for nearly a year to see how it holds up after a lot of rigorous use. Here’s the full review.
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Sierra Designs High Side 1 Tent Review
9 Jul 22 Joe Cruz / gearJoe Cruz sets out on El Camino del Diablo and beyond to test the Sierra Designs High Side 1, a relatively affordable one-person tent that claims to be lightweight, highly packable, and fully functional for backpacking and bikepacking alike. Here’s the full review…
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Big Agnes 1P Bikepack Tents: Fly Creek vs. Copper Spur
49 Jun 18 Logan Watts / gearWe’ve been testing the Copper Spur HV UL1 Bikepack and Fly Creek HV UL1 Bikepack, Big Agnes’ two bikepacking-specific, 1-person tents that were announced last summer. Nearly a year in, here are our thoughts on each, plus a detailed comparison…
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Tarptent Double Rainbow Review: Big tent, small packsize
29 Jun 5 Cass Gilbert / gearThe US-made Tarptent Double Rainbow is the brand’s most popular model. Weighing in at just 1.2 kilograms (2.65 pounds), it offers a surprising amount of living space for two riders, combined with a very minimal pack size, making it ideal for bikepackers… especially tall ones. We take a look at the newly updated 2019 model, testing it out camping in the US, the UK, and France.