There was a great site called 'outdoor idiots' which had a really good article on how to use bashas. But searching just now it seems their web hosting has died. You can still read the text of the article using google's "cache", but non of the photos work.
Outdooridiots.com
Incase it reappears at some point. Search "outdoor idiots tarp" on google then click the "cached" link to read it.
I used a basha for about two months last year, untill it fell off the bike without me realising. The main problem was it being really low to the ground when pitching from the bike. Having two bikes with the basha inbetween would be better, but I reckon it'd still be annoyingly low, and far to low to fit a tent underneath obviously. If you've got trees to play with then it's easy to get a good pitching.
You need paracord to pitch it, and if you do this the way that Outdoor Idiots site reccommends it's really quick to pitch. You keep the ropes attached all the time, use knots which allow you to easily tension the lines, and a main 'ridge line' which suspends the basha between trees/bike+tree/bike+pole. My suggestion would be to make sure you get a basha with a a loop in the middle of it, or else it will sag underneath the ridgeline. You can put the basha above the ridgeline, but they apparrently get damaged over time and you get water running down the line when it's wet.
No good if you're squeamish. One night in turkey there was some nasty poisonous spider thing crawling around our campfire just before I went to bed. And in Kazakhstan something small (maybe a mosquito) bit me on the end of my nob, leaving it sore and slightly bloodied. Seriously.
I stupidly never really photographed any of the good basha pitches I had out in the wild
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