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Time to upgrade to a new tent. I only live once ... money is no object!
LINK to Hilleberg Niak tent (worth every penny in the long run):
hilleberg.com/...
Hilleberg tents do not use a rainfly, which is one of the underlying core tenets behind the designs. Back in 1970, Bo Hilleberg, a Swedish outdoorsman, began tinkering around with designing a more ideal tent because he hated the rainfly of traditional tents (hard to put on in windy conditions, tent gets wet when setting up in rainy conditions before the fly is put over it). His thoughts over 50 years ago mirror how I have always felt about rainflies ... they were a necessary evil that I always dealt with in wind and rain. Bo was the first to invent a tent that can be set up in the wind and rain without the tent getting wet or the rainfly blowing away.
Bo's design idea, in what eventually became his famous Hilleberg tent line, was to eliminate the rainfly to make the tent easier to set up and more practical to use in the field. Hilleberg tents are actually two tents in one: There is an inner tent and an outer tent, and both pitch simultaneously as you saw in this video here. The inner tent is connected to the outer tent, and is a few inches inside the outer tent. The outer tent is 100% waterproof silicone coated material, which is superior to most tents that use polyurethane to waterproof their rainflies. Polyurethane goes bad over the years, begins smelling awful, and flakes off eventually, a real mess, but silicone never has these issues.
So in this video of mine, the green portion of the tent is the outer waterproof tent. The yellow portion you can see is the inner tent, hooked inside the outer tent, and several inches away from the outer tent. The whole thing pitches together, so the inner tent (where you sleep) never gets wet even if set up in the rain. The outer tent's silicone waterproofing is on both sides of the material (called sil/sil), which is better than a small handful of tents nowadays that use silicone on the outside of the material and polyurethane on the inside of the material (called sil/poly). The standard conventional tent, even today, uses polyurethane totally on their rainflies, which is less costly to produce, but will not last.
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Steve's current recumbent trike is a 2021 HP Velotechnik Scorpion fs26 Enduro, outfitted with Schwalbe Marathon PLUS road tires instead of the stock knobby off-road tires. He has also owned a 2015 ICE Full Fat off-road trike, a 2014 Catrike 700 speed trike, and a 2007 ICE Qnt trike ... not to mention three bikes (Specialized Roll Elite - Motobecane Night Train fat tire - Easy Racers Gold Rush recumbent)
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