My new tent

I got a 3 person hiker dome tent made by Timber Line

In big w i paid $48 bucks

http://members.dodo.net.au/radburn/Tent/index.html

Its compact enough to take on the bike

Now ive gota work out how to get a compact but warm sleeping bag & some
cooking gear, maybe those disposable butain burners as well.

Seems to fit on the rack bag pretty well with a couple of ocky straps.

 

http://members.dodo.net.au/radburn/Tent/imagepages/image6.html


Enjoying those donuts there MB?

 

heres a small sleeping bag

http://www.discountcamping.com.au/index/products/romanbag/sleepingbags

 

www.talkaboutmotorcycles.com

 

For summer bike touring, yer, should be fine. Bottom line, though, is how
much does it weigh bundled? Hopefully less than the 3.2kg that is my
ski-touring tent ...

You can't use the words "warm" and "compact" when you're talking about
sleeping bags, unless you're talking about a cheap synthetic fibre bag
(which *won't* be warm). Get a good down bag that splits the feathers
up into cells, and make sure the outer bag has compression straps so you
can crunch it down as small as possible. Use a silk sleeping bag liner as
well, as - no bulshit - it adds a couple of degrees of warmth to your bag
and feels oh so nice against your skin. You'd only
need a -5 bag for those cold nights inland?

As for the butane burner, forgeddit. The butane tanks are bulky and
expensive. Instead, go for a shellite stove (shellite in layman's terms is
just unleaded petrol without the dye in it) as it will cook stuff faster,
and better, and may just help you get to the next petrol station in a
reserve tank snafu. Forget the metho stoves, they're too slow. Also forget
the Big Ws and have a look at the serious outdoor sports stores
(www.paddypallin.com.au, www.mountaindesigns.com.au, www.bogong.com.au or
the soft adventure shop at www.kathmandu.co.au). The stuff they sell is
light, compact, durable and generally speaking, easy to use. My Coleman
stove I use back-country ski touring weighs less than 200 grams and yet is
gentle enough to cook a nice rum bread and butter pudding. A litre of fuel
lasts about five days.

Now's the time to buy in the off season.

HTH

- sanbar

 

what, thats all mussle smee

 

But are they any good?

 

http://www.hikelight.com.au/category36_1.htm

 

WHO THE FARK ARE YOU REPLYING TO?
KNOW HOW TO USE A NEWSREADER?

 

Pictures of a dirty car and now a WHOLE page of pictures of a $50 tent?!!?
Man; you've gotta' get membership at a video-store or something!

 

Wow; I didn't think seafood was fattening!

 

Over there-->

 

look at were i live clem? things things are all ive got to get excited about

 

http://www.gqpatrol.com/crapola/tent/tent.jpg

This is my '1' man "cycle 2 tent".. supposed to be 2 person (cant fit
queensize airbed in without touchin sides), but its great with 1, or
real cozy with 2..

Smaller than sleeping bag to packup, 1 pole, 6 pegs and you can sleep
if it aint raining. or another 6 pegs if its rainin for the fly.

$100 at Rays.. Had it out in 2 REAL pissin down storms, and dry as a
nuns...

 

http://www.raysoutdoors.com.au/html/Products/50229.html
thats the tent there

Item No.: 50229
Cycle II

Small pack size to suit bikes. Full length silver coated polyester
fly. Flame retardant materials. Taped seams. Quick clip system Weight
3.2kg. 2 person 160x260x110h

 

OI!
That's not your tent, it's my tent!

Good tent for carting on the bike.

Been to a few rallies.

Moike

 

OI!

Exactly.. and good in more than just summer!

Tent and sleepin bag in a gearsack bag, trangia in side of gearsack,
baked beans in otherside and away ya go..

 

Hee hee; and I was wrong too... I missed the second page of tent photos!!

 

I was thinkin' shed, shed, shed!

 

No need to shout, Smee. Everyone else knew what he was saying and who
he was saying it to.

Bored?

Go for a ride.