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Old 6 Aug 2008
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I think some of you are missing an important consideration.

Tents get wet, and often you'll pack them wet. You try to hang out until they totally dry, and you won't be hitting the road until noon some days. And some days, when its foggy or raining, they won't dry at all.

I wouldn't want to pack anything wet inside my cases where I'm trying to keep everything else dry.

I carry my tent in a separate tent bag, strapped to the outside of the bike. I use the Helen's 2 Wheel medium cord-close sack Cord Close Sacks

Its made by a motorcycle rider, for strapping to motorcycles - much better than just a tent sack designed for strapping to a backpack. So the tent can be stuffed into this thing wet or dry. I just ordered a replacement for the one I used the past 5 years (sun does that to nylon, as you know).

So, I'm not sure why any of you would want to carry a tent inside your cases. And buying a tent, simply because it will fit inside your cases, is also a bad way to choose a tent. Buy a tent because its suitable for the job of keeping you dry, holding you and all your gear, easy to set up, light-weight, compact, all the other stuff - but not because it can fit inside your sidecase.
amen to that.

and I remember having commuted 1000's of km's with my tent stored in the tiny topcase of a K100 (because i was too lazy to remove it).

When I thought I'd need it, I would also carry the poles and my sleeping bag wrapped around them ;-)
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I always keep my tent in my panniers. My 'tent' pannier is designed to allow for a wet tent. Three sealable/watertight sandwich boxes fit perfectly in the base of a touratech pannier. so I don't have to worry about other stuff getting wet.

This is the system I used for my three month tour of the Baltic, which included a period of what seemed like five days of continuous rain. It is a system that works for me. So I'm still on the lookout for a tent that will fit inside my Touratechs.

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