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Great tent, I think having the ability to hide the bike away or work on the bike in a torrential downpour is a big advantage.

As long as the tent is not too big or heavy.

Like you say for a year plus of travel 3 mins extra per pitch is a little to pay for space and comfort.

I saw a tepee style tent that could sleep 3 in a netted section still had room for four more and weighed in at 4.5 kgs, not sure if you could fit a bike in there but it seemed like a good price at around £200
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Great tent, I think having the ability to hide the bike away or work on the bike in a torrential downpour is a big advantage.

As long as the tent is not too big or heavy.

Like you say for a year plus of travel 3 mins extra per pitch is a little to pay for space and comfort.

I saw a tepee style tent that could sleep 3 in a netted section still had room for four more and weighed in at 4.5 kgs, not sure if you could fit a bike in there but it seemed like a good price at around £200
yes i have to agree,hiding and working on the bike is another huge bonus,
i was looking at those tepee tents,great prices & loads of room but what swung it for me about the expedition tent was the fact that i could cook inside the bike area of the tent with the door left up without getting gassed by fumes or soaked by the rain they are pricey but i always say where you sleep at night for a year or so really tips the delicate balance of your sanity
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Great tent, I think having the ability to hide the bike away or work on the bike in a torrential downpour is a big advantage.

As long as the tent is not too big or heavy.

Like you say for a year plus of travel 3 mins extra per pitch is a little to pay for space and comfort.

I saw a tepee style tent that could sleep 3 in a netted section still had room for four more and weighed in at 4.5 kgs, not sure if you could fit a bike in there but it seemed like a good price at around £200
I know the TeePee you are talking about, but you can't fit a bike inside that. The door of the tent is too small to put in the motorcycle, plus the teepee has a vertical pole standing in the middle, you don't want to risk knocking it out by trying to force the bike inside the tent.
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other tents to consider
black shrimp

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other tents to consider
hilleburg nallo 2gt for people with money

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other tents to consider
omega 250

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other tents to consider
another big ass heavy tent like the redvertz,the mototent

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or this one,i was considering buying myself the coleman tasman 2

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Yes, its expensive, but its also easily the best tent Ive ever owned. I see the price has gone up even more since we bought ours (now $785) good as it is, there's lots of other good tents around these days.

Here's ours at 14,885ft/4,537m in Peru, a fairly windy night followed by the temperature dropping to -5 C with the DR and tent covered with thick ice, we were fine inside, but with some condensation build up. The inner is not mesh, so its not a good hot weather tent as is, though you can split the inner door and have that as mesh and its got plenty of vents to get air through, this is a 4 season bombproof shelter. If you are using it in hot weather you can buy a full mesh inner for it.

The vestibule area is great, we can fit in all our riding gear, panniers etc with room to spare. The sleeping area is 'cosy' for 2 but we are not tall/big. Weight including full footprint is 3.2kg (2.8kg without)


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mmm i read a few reports on dodgy seams from factory,couple of people not getting the best customer service either but i think the popularity of this tent can be well identified with most of the loyal hilleburg mob on the road,

would love to cough up the money,especially in terms of room to weight ratio.
a lot of tent for under 3 kilos
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Hi Brian,

Yes I read the reports on here re poor seams etc, some manufacturing errors I can forgive - everyone makes mistakes- but poor customer service after faults have been found with tents this expensive really is unacceptable.

The only other issue with the Nallo 2GT it is that its not free standing, an MSR Mutha Hubba has more internal room (3 persons) and is free standing and at 3.4 kgs not that much more weight, but has no external vestibule room, which I really like on the Hilleberg. Having a free standing tent is a big bonus in Central America, where I often would put the tent up on a covered veranda or under a palapas for bug protection, but the fly was not needed

Ive currently got MSR's Mutha Hubba and Hubba Hubba, a VauDe 4 Season, TNF Pebble, several small Coleman and a few other tents knocking around and Ive got through plenty more over the years so Ive tried quite a few, the Hubba Hubba is probably the tent that gets the most use, its light enough to backpack, has (just) enough room for 2, has 2 doors and 2 reasonable sized vestibules, weighs under 2kgs and solo its more than enough room for me. You can buy a 'gear shed' for it to increase storage space (haven't tried it) - a tarp, as Bertrand says can be more versatile though.
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