Hi Hubb
My girlfriend and I are planning a 6-12 month trip next year and I am starting to look at gear etc.

One of the bigger investments is the tent, we are right now thinking of buying a
MSR Mutha Hubba NX 3-Person Tent. My thoughts:

- 3 person, so we have room for gear in the dry and a bit more room if we need to spend a day in the tent.
- The Mutha Hubba is light
- Fair price

Do any of you have experience with the tent or any other good recommendations for tents in the same price class?

Thanks

Vango Omega 350 is heavier but with much more space for keeping kit out of the weather.

MSR is good gear though.

MSR makes good stuff. But my wife and I opted for a Vaude Space 3P. The main reasons were: It pitches outer first (or all-at-once) which is more convenient in the rain. The doors are on the sides, which we prefer for crawling in and out. And the porch areas are a more convenient shape to store wet gear.

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No why? I used a $50 Texel 3 tent untill the zipper broke after sleeping in it every day for two years all the way around africa http://adventure-travel-experience.d...en_transafrika

Now i bought the next bigger version texel 4 of the same iglutent again and used it to travel with my girlfriend. The most importend thing is it can stand without pegs: Tents - Which are the best tents to travel?

Hi, I was looking for a long time. I chose Coleman Tatra 3 and I think it was an excellent choice. I recommend it!

After many quality tents including Exped Mira III, Exped Mira II, Vaude Argon, Vaude Hogan... my current is a MSR Hubba Hubba HP (2 man tent) for solo use which together with sleeping mat and sleeping bag only takes up half of a pannier. When I'm with someone else I can attach the MSR gear shed to take wet clothes and the like. But if there's two of you all the time, I agree it's better to get a three-person tent.

As ta-rider writes, the next point is whether the tent is freestanding so it can be pitched on rocky ground, on sandy ground, or even on a concrete/tile base near a building. For me this is far more important than whether it pitches outer first. And yes, the MSR Mutha Hubba is freestanding. Another advantage is that you can erect the frame and inner tent, then move the whole caboodle in one hand to position it exactly where you want it.

Many of the supposedly three season tents use lightweight mesh on the inner tent to both save costs and also weight, but if there's any wind blowing you can get a jetstream through the tent. So unless you are going to be mainly in warm areas, I would suggest the MSR Mutha Hubba HP tent which has less mesh, more solid fabric (currrently £380.78 on Amazon UK).

But whichever you get—the NX or the HP—the Mutha Hubba has loads of headroom which is important when you're trying to get out of/into riding gear and makes it feel very roomy. I don't think the HP has the 'stay-dry' doors of the NX.

I would strongly recommend you get a 'gear loft' (£28) so you can place important stuff like torch, phone, etc at roof level so they are easily found. Consider buying a footprint designed for the tent (£48). You can also get groundsheet 'mudmat 1' (£20) for each of the vestibule areas.

Will it fit into your panniers? You can pack the poles, the inner tent, the outer tent and the footprint separately.

Some weblinks
https://www.alloutdoor.co.uk/tents/tents-/
https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co...all-tents-c148
http://www.exped.com/international/e...category/tents

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My wife and I are using an Exped Venus iii on our RTW trip. We had a few issues with the zips on our first one. Exped customer care was excellent and we got a warranty replacement. Zips are now bigger and no further issues.

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I am in similar situation. I have a number of backpacking tents that I've used for motocamping (and backpacking), but the only one large enough for our planned 9+ month trip is old and I don't trust it for such a long haul. Agree MSR makes good equipment, and so does Big Agnes, as well as REI. But I'm curious about opinions of the motorcycle-centric Redverz Atacama. I see lots of them in pics of motorcycle rallies, but is it really a good tent for prolonged overland adventure touring?


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After much research (including following this awesome thread) and a fair amount of anguish (so many tents ...), my wife and I finally pulled the plug (and emptied the wallet) on a Hilleberg Nallo 4GT. We will be using it for the next year as we head south for Mexico then on to Central and South America. Feeling good about the investment, but time will tell.


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Has anyone had any experiance with the new Lone rider adventure tent?

From what I can see they look very similar to the MSR Hubba Hubba but with the good points that Tim made already built in?
https://www.lonerider-motorcycle.com...otorcycle-tent

Dear adventure friends,

I use currently the Coleman Coastline 3 tent. I never used it for longer a longer tour. Just for a weekend or two. With 7kg it is heavy. But I like the space it offers. Would you go with such a tent on a longer tour (6month) with mostly ok weather but expecting some stronger wind as well?

Loads of space and good headroom is a plus but I've never been a great fan of tunnel tents as they (the ones I've had anyway) move around too much when its windy and they need pegging to stay up. I've always been a bit worried that glass fibre poles and a flexible structure don't make for a long life and you can be pretty much certain that it'll be 3.00am on a stormy wet night when they break. That keeps me awake so not terribly relaxing.

A frames (not many of those around any more) and geodesics have tended to be my tents of choice. Full geodesics are very stable and, at a pinch, can be used without pegs, but all those poles are fiddly and take ages to put up (my current Vango does anyway). That becomes annoying when you're moving on every day.

I won't pretend like I'm a master long-term camper. But.

1) I would worry about packed size more than weight. You're on a motorcycle - you don't care if the tent is too heavy for a backpacker to carry on a month-long hike. You can trade off the lightness for cheapness and/or ruggedness in other models.

2) 500 euros seems like an awfully big part of the gear budget. Unless you and your partner are very keen campers, you may find that for a large part of your RTW trip, you will have options for sleeping indoors that will be much more preferable. Developing countries will simply be cheap by Western standards; developed countries will have restrictions on wild camping, and official campsites will often cost the same as a decent hostel.

This is not to say "don't carry a tent" - more to say "don't make camping the center of your strategy". Spend a hundred euros on a *fine* tent instead of five hundred euros on an *excellent* one. Those four hundred euros will get you much further in experiences. (Speaking as some whose hundred-euro Coleman Darwin 2 tent has lasted fine through multiple trips.)

3) That particular model seems to have a lot of unhappy owners on Amazon at least.

I concur, at least for traveling Mexico, Central and South America. We spent a lot of money on a Hilleberg tent, which we have hardly used in the past 10 months of travel. And not because we don’t enjoy camping, it just turns out there are not as many occasions as you might think where you can, or it makes sense. If you can get a hostel/hotel with breakfast for $15, vs wild camp behind some gas station, and you are dead tired from a long day with another ahead of you, you decide what option you’ll take. It wasn’t until we reached Argentina that we started to see established campgrounds as a regular feature. That said, two wild camps, one in Mexico and another in Peru, rank among trip highlights.

We have camped some, and hope to do so more as we head into Patagonia, but we would have been well served by one of my existing backpacking tents, saved a lot of money and taken up less space.

The Hilleberg is an awesome tent though, and perhaps we will be glad for it in windy Patagonia . But still, in the balance, I think it was more than we needed.

Jim


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Like everyone else, I carried a tent and (minimal) camping gear throughout Central and South America, using it seldom. There were a couple of times when I actually could not find a place to stay in a given town after arriving right at dusk—usually due to some sort of local festival, although sometimes it was the Dakar rolling thru—and was glad for the tent option.

I didn’t bring the complete kit, since I knew I wasn’t going to be camping regularly. When I went trekking in Torres del Paine, I bought a little camp stove locally, plus maybe some other odds and ends that I’ve since forgotten. This is easily done in any area which has a camping culture. On the other hand, most of South and Central America have little or no camping culture. When a friend from Venezuela came to visit in the US and we went camping with friends, he said he’d never been camping before and was furthermore amazed that we just slept outside without bringing along bodyguards. That would be a country where I would not expect to find a lot of camping gear in the shops.

I have several Hilleberg tents, and I had one with me in Torres del Paine. Mine was one of the very few left standing when the winds picked up late one night. Yes, it cost a lot—but it’s still going strong more than 20 years after purchase, and it’s light, waterproof, windproof and compact. If I’d just been buying a tent for a single trip, I’d have bought a cheaper one...and gotten miserable that night in TDP. Instead, I look long term to the extent I can afford, and it’s been a long time since I had to even ask the question “what tent should I buy.”

YMMV, naturally.