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Mountain 'softwear' tents
Ps...The mountain hardwear tents are famous for leaking due to super flimsy fly sheet & no/ high storm flaps, baggy when wet & are generally lightweight (flimsy)TerraNova copies. They gave some to the volunteer Mountain Rescue service in yorkshire to test a few years ago, the report never materianised.....

We spent 2 nights on Skye (sligachan) & were utterly miserable, wet & cold, dumped the tent for £60 to a climber in fort William & got the Vaude.

Wish i could be more positive......

PS the Quasars come in an 'extended' version due to there being alot of 6ft+ pro mountaineers

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You want Hilleberg: http://www.hilleberg.com/

Light, strong, four-season, durable, spacious. Somewhat finicky to set up by American standards (especially if drunk, cold, hurried, late or otherwise incapacitated), and not cheap.

Hope that helps.

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I got to agree...
...with "tordway"!

As I mentioned in a previous comment - you get what you pay for. Sure, if you want to buy a new tent every year (because the old one is just shi...., go for it. If you want to have quality, you will have to pay a little more. That's what makes the difference between driving a Mercedes, RR, etc and a small Suzuki, Hyundai or whatever. Quality has it's price and I prefer to spend a little more and stay dry inside the tent for several years.

Vaude, Rejka - those are the tents I would go for. Esecially the Rejka tents with a floor of 10.000mm rain protection (??) and the fly sheet with 5.000mm are a guarantee to stay dry! And the price - it is hard to find something similar in this category!!

For more information (sorry - all in German) check here Rejka Outgear

Happy shopping and safe riding as well as camping!!

PS: Again - I am NOT connected to this company and don't receive any benefits at all - of course - they're in Germany me in the land-of-the-not-always-rising-sun = Japan!!
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The Nomad Tent
Keeping my eyes out for these guys at the Nomad Tent CompanyThe Adventure Motorcycle Tent. Designed for global traveller , spotted them on Advrider, last seen testing the tent up the Dalton highway in Alaska, supposed to fit a full size adventure tourer into the tent, space for two and all the gear and roll up the same size as a regular tent.. If it's as good as they say it is i'll have one. Did anyone get and pics before they changed the site?
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Keeping my eyes out for these guys at the Nomad Tent CompanyThe Adventure Motorcycle Tent. Designed for global traveller , spotted them on Advrider, last seen testing the tent up the Dalton highway in Alaska, supposed to fit a full size adventure tourer into the tent, space for two and all the gear and roll up the same size as a regular tent.. If it's as good as they say it is i'll have one. Did anyone get and pics before they changed the site?

looks like they are updating at the moment. pretty neat if they can get a GS inside, I'm planning a RTW trip again, sounds like the ticket for trip.
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why on earth would you want to bring your bike into a tent with you??!
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why on earth would you want to bring your bike into a tent with you??!
Ditto

and if you park our bike in, or anywhere near your tent, make sure if it falls over (as they invariably do) it can only fall away from you.

I've witnessed a KTM 400 fall over (they always do) and break a crash helmet so I imagine any bike could cause substantial damage to a sleeping human.

Even if it doesn't hurt you, imagine being wrapped up in a sleeping bag and trying to get out from under a loaded GS. I struggle to get out of my maggot at the best of times.
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It's more like a mini garage, I rode up to Deadhorse top of Alaska in the summer, torrential rain, the guys that had them just parked the bikes, tent went up over it, then they got undressed and set up the inner from inside the tent. Same gig the next morning, they were all packed up out of the rain, packed up their fly sheet and were off.

I always found hiding the bike is the best way to go too, everyone wants what they can see. Nothing worse than a toss night sleep hearing noises around your bike at night when you are in the tent.
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