There is little of value that i can add to the, most people have said it all above. As for the 2second tents, the biggest issue with these are that when folded they are flat but are a circle about 90cm D. Which could be very hard to pack on a bike. I use a small 2 man hiking tent.. North face tadpole 23 and slickrock. Both excelent tents and the Tadpole can be used in Uk 4 seasons.
There is only one point here that i think is worth mentioning. IMHO the way to go iscompletely freestanding inner! I have seen all to often tents that need to be pegged out to stand, become useless if the ground is just wrong i.e hard as a rock or way too soft. A tent that needs pegging may need several differnt types of pegs to deal with hard soil, rock, mud, sand. Where as with a freestanding the worst that can happen is that your vesibule, is limp.. not ideal but better then no tent at all...

For example.. I was in Paris a while back, and staying in the campground near the city centre (sorry cantr remember the name.) But the ground was so hard that non-free standing tents could not be pitched, and many people ended up sleeping with out a tent.. and as thier gear was exposed, several people woke up to find things had gone walkabout. Off piste this is true too, and great when your mates beg you to come into your tent cus thiers wont go up and it is wet out !!!!

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