BIKE PACKING | Best Tarp? 3x3 LOMO, DD hammocks Magic Carpet XL or Military Basha, 3 configurations 

Much appreciated amit kumar! Thanks

Thanks for the up date! I'll check it out. Thanks for watching 👍🏻

Thanks David. Nice to know. Hopefully won't need a stretcher while bike packing🤞

Very nice of you to write this comment. My channel is about canoeing, cycling, and general adventures/camping. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks

Thanks @jaydavee I appreciate your comment. Good advice, well noted, ATB👍🏼

I used to be tent but I'm tarp and bivy now, there's just so much more you can do with a tarp. You get bugs when you're cooking no matter what you do and my bivy has a bug net for sleeping. In summer we pitch it high A frame and you've got 3sqm of roof above you. We hang out and tell stories and play cards under it. The tiny tents you mention are more for solo hiking I think so it's horses for courses.

@@d.Cog420 Some time after i wrote this, i actually got myself the Hilleberg Bivanorak, and i think maybe i like it even more than my Duplex. A headnet deals with the bugs surprisingly good (i sleep on the side, and the hood of the Bivanorak keeps the headnet away from my face), and without being especially anoying. A big advantage with this shelter is being able to sit up, and cook food or whatever, and if i want to move around, i can just unsinge the bottom, and lift up the bivanorak and my quilt, and im ready to walk around. Less hassle than crawling out of a tent, and perfect when you wake up having to pee in the middle of the night, and you dont even need to leave the nice warm shelter to do your thing. All the benefits of a bivy, with even less limitations than a tent :P The feeling of cowboycamping is also much nicer than seeing tent walls. Some people talk about condensation being an issue with this thing, but i have only noticed this once, when it got uncomfortably hot one summer night. I was camping near a lake recently, and when i woke up, the morning dew had been really heavy, and settled on all the stuff outside the bivanorak, but me and my quilt were perectly dry. If i was camping in a tent, id probably be soaked...

@@EspenFrafalne Nice option, I've used ponchos before and they are great. Just remember, when wearing this your chances of getting laid might be diminished ;)

@@d.Cog420 LOL! I have read a lot of comments about the Bivanorak look silly, but i dont think it looks any worse than a rainponcho, and i never heard anyone say those look "unfashionable". I think its really good as raingarment. Not as good ventilation as rainponchos, but good enough. More tight fitting raingear sucks. Especially for hiking.

@@EspenFrafalne Agreed, tight gear doesn't breathe enough no matter what the goretex ad says. Hillebrand is good kit too, good choice. Happy trails bro.

Thanks very much for your comment! Good effort with the cheap tarps. I hear that "Poundland" do a tarp 6"x 4" (feet) for just £1! ideal perhaps for a ground sheet I hope you can subscribe!

Nice one. I'll give it a go.👍

Thanks George. Next time I'm out videoing the tarp, I'll try to include it. You could watch one of my very old videos where I try to show it. Here's the link.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1tUxyZwLbsw.html

Thanks Dave! I know a nice hotel.....

@@divum I'm not that type of guy lol!

Thanks, you too!

Thanks

Yes indeed! I guess that's why the military choose this type. Thanks for the comment. I appreciate it. Cheers

Thanks so much! That's the feedback that inspires me to make more videos. Cheers

Thanks for a great comment. I have used my bike as a central support. I turn it upside down and then place the tarp over it, and peg down the corners. It worked great with a 3*3 tarp. All the best to you. 👍🏼⛺🚴🏻‍♀️

Depends if you want a view or not when cosy in bed.