Another question I get a lot: "have you stopped using a hammock for camping"? The answer is NO! I still use my AMOK whenever I can, but some trips are better to use a tent, and others is better to use a hammock. It is a little bit situational what I choose. I always recommend people who start out with camping to get a good tent, this is the basic setup most people should have before they start adding to their needs and usage. I may do an own video about this as well 👌🏻 Happy Camping all 🤩 And don't forget to bring good coffee ☕
A Norwegian broke my heart recently and your videos on your adventures seem to ease the pain a bit. Now, I can't stop watching all of your videos. Looking forward to have more.
Perfect Thomas. All my queries answered. Was actually wondering from you your last amazing video whether you had your tent poles separately to make it more compressed. Very smart.
Great to hear this Johan. Really glad i answered your questions in this video. I got so many questions about it i had a little bit of a hard time putting it all together in a video. Glad i succeeded
Helsport is a reliable brand. Besides a NORDISK OPPLAND 2, I also use a HELSPORT PASVIK for the summer.🌞🌞 For winter tours, I have owned a HELSPORT VARANGER CAMP 4-6 since last year.❄ Top equipment, practice-oriented and not one of the high-priced ones.👍🏍 Depending on what you need at the moment. 😉😉 Ha en flott ulykkesfri sesong alle sammen. Ta vare på deg selv. God Tur.
Ok, now I know which tent to buy next! Seems to be a good size for even a small family of 3 (with a toddler) . Cool to see the whole setup process at the end. Once again a video with a lot of value 👍
Yeah, this is a great tent for family trips Pål! And the opening in both ends saves you so much hassle when the kid or the better half needs to go to the toilet 😂🔥 glad you liked the video 👏🏻
Ha ha lol 🤣 Just bought a new tent "Robens Nordic Lynx 4" for the trip up your way this year, and it's a tunnel tent lol, we have a dome tent 3 person, but wanted that big front area for all our gear and more comfort in bad weather, not that you get that in Norway in high summer, lol. The new tires E0 7+ are waiting for me in the tire shop, probably change them about a month before heading off and that's basically all the prep done, both bikes been serviced, nice fresh Motul 7100 oil, new OEM heated grips fitted to the wife's new 890, got new Galfer brake pads but don't know if I'll change them before we go or take them with me, did get one extra tire spoon from Eastbound as someone told me it makes a huge difference with 3 spoons instead of only 2. Oh well, nice to see your posting again Thomas ;-) was a little quite for a while, lol 👊
Hahaha, Yeah! But a tunnel tent may suit you better for your trip and needs! I have made my experience with a tunnel tent 😉 the front area on my old tent is amazing, but since the tent it self is so big, i don’t miss it in my new tent! Sounds like you are getting ready for the season and new Adventures 👏🏻👏🏻🔥 best feeling. It has been a long winter and no riding conditions, but i hope there will be new content on a regular basis from now on out 😆😇
As I wrote in a comment on one of your earlier videos, I also use the Reinsfjell. But the 2P. It's a very good tent. Before that I also had a tunnel tent (Nordisk Halland 2), but exchanged it with the Reinsfjell for the same reasons as you did. Unfortunately, the tent is a bit expensive, but a good tent is very important. Four more weeks and I'll pitch it at the Lysefjord. And hopefully at many other beautiful locations in Norway. Thanks for your great content! And i wish you a great spring and summer season with lots of exciting adventures.
Here in Norway the 2P Reinsfjell is 10.000,- but the 3P is 7000,- go figure 😂 A good tent is key for a good camping, I always recommend a good tent before anything else. You can add more tents, or different hammocks as well, but the base setup should always be a good tent. Thank you for the great wishes mate, the same to you. Cheers ☕️
Hej Thomas. Thanks for this nice video and your advice; your style and your content is great!! I am now sure not only which tent shape to go for but I’m also sure about the size. You ought to be a Helsport ambassador!!
Thank you so much for the nice comment Henrik 👏🏻 Just glad to help, and share my own experience is even better if it can make other out there have a easy time. Cheers
Thank you so much for the nice comment Henrik 👏🏻 Just glad to help, and share my own experience is even better if it can make other out there have a easy time. Cheers
Hey Thomas, Nice closing scene with your logo! Well done! That thing looks kinda big!🤣🤣🤣 I have a Marmot Tungsten 2 tent with two vestibules that I have used over the last two years. Thanks for the video showing another option and the reasons why you choose a 3-person tent. Tell me if it is the same for you: Don't you love the felling of setting up camp for the night? I just LOVE to settle myself in according to my selection of the place and the process of the install. It's like I am building my home! Cheers mate!
Hello my friend 🤩 Haha, that's what she said. I really like a big tent, as long as it does not pack too long or wide. Yeah, and this is also one of the reasons I prefer a bigger tent. You kinda build your home on the trip, and you have a little bit of extra space to move around, store or dry stuff etc. This is a luxury I want to bring on my adventures. 🔥
If I did only hiking or bicycle travels I would opt for the super light version of this tent, but the price tag was just a little bit on the heavy side for my liking when you get so much tent for half the price in the PRO series. I really like all the HelSport tents, been looking on the Lofoten series as well.
Now I have the gloves, boots, sleeping bag, ground chair and tent recommended by tshansen. Very happy with all of them. So now I am about to find out whitch helmet he is using. I need a new one...
Haha, that is awesome to hear mate. I have the Klim Krios Pro, but for the love of everything that is holy! Try it out before you order. When it comes to helmets, fit is number one 🤣
And what model Amok sleeping pad are you using? I’m looking to find a new one. The one I have now is not som comfortable. It’s too thin and I’m heavy 100kg +
@@BennyAlbertsen-st6cw I have the Fjøl XL Ultralight, best one I own. I have a 9cm and 7 cm from exped as well, but comfort weight, packing size etc on the fjøl beats them all.
@@BennyAlbertsen-st6cw I have a seperate compression bag for the tent, so I can push out all the air. The pack sack for the tent is kinda useless for that. And like you say, to big. But I put it in to the pack sack that comes with the tent. You can roll it up, or just press it together and put it into the bag. After it is inside the pack sack I put it into the compression bag and make it as small as possible.
Enjoyed the video! I like the big front porch. I use a Klymit Cross Canyon 2 person which has front and back vestibules. I also separate the poles for packing.
Thank you Mike. The big front and rear porch are great, and so much more convenient that just one large one. Never seen the Cross Canyon before. But it looks like it has good ventilation on top, like you see on the Fjellreven dome tent. I like this. Cheers
Really nice video and good points on the two tents differences. Helsport makes great stuff. The inner height is really impressive, didn't thought that you had that headroom concidering your height. I have some tents for different purposes and the favourites are the Hilleberg Allak wich is a dome tent as well, with a clever design for pitching and great ventilation. The other is the smaller Akto. Cheers Tjommi, now I got inspire to go out and camp.
The Reinsfjell from HelSport is a really impressive tent and have some really great dimensions for lager people. Hilleberg is probably one of the best tentmakers in the world, and their range of tents are just something else. It is always great to have some different options to choose between when it comes to camping and what trips you are planing. Really want to go camping again my self Tjommi 🔥☕️ Not many days before my next long trip now 😉
Good vid TS. I almost always carry a three person. It's worth it especially if you have to hole up for weather. Liking that brand. I use a Heleberg Staika 2 person and others.
Yeah, after I was hold up for a couple of days because of my back locking up. I really saw the need for a bigger tent if you need to stay more than over night. Hilleberg is really great tent, probably the best tentmaker in the world 👏🏻
@@tshansen May I copy your procedure to put the tent into a compression bag? 😊It would really free up some extra storage. I guess this will make sure that a moist tent is evenly moistened when unpacking in the evening? 😆
@@MopedWanderlust Hahaha, feel free to copy what ever you like 🤣 you can be sure the whole tent Is evenly wet every evening when you set it up. easier to dry that way 🙈
Good video, Thomas. For ACT Pyrenees last summer I bought a cheap 30 Euro tent, two persons. Was good enough for summer conditions. I use tents too rarely to justify an expensive one for biking (I have a large and expensive tent for cars) . But for an upcoming trip to Scandinavia one day I will have to invest. But first Romania, Italy and Wales. Cheers, Günter/Nürnberg
I bet summer conditions down there is better than up here most of the times! There is absolutely no reason to spend this amount of money on something you rarely use, i agree 👏🏻 you have some great trips ahead of you 😲 cheers
Thank you for spending my money on a new tent 😂 Just bought the same one for motocamping! Question regarding the compression bag; how much liter / which size do you use? Keep up the great content! Appreciate it!
Hahaha, you are welcome. It is really a great tent. I had to upgrade the compression bag, I thought the green one I had was just a little bit to smal. So I got a new one that is 20 liters
I believe that having a little bit of extra space and luxury on this trips makes it much better to stay on the road for longer. I know some people go all in on lightweight and as small as possible, but I’m not sure that is the best way of doing it. But you will always have the extreme in one direction or the other.
Helsport make great tents and generally more reasonable price than Hilleberg. The British english terminology for what you call tie down anchor points is `guy lines` (or guide lines), setting up is `pitch the tent` , taking down and packing away is `strike camp` 😉😊
This is absolutely brilliant, words I have not heard been used before. Thank you for enlighten me on this subject. 👏🏻 Hilleberg is the delux edition of any tent I recon 😆
Nice one! I'm using a Salewa Litetrek III, very light weight, easy to set-up. Main reason for choosing that tent is that you clip the poles on the outside, so you never have the issue that the inside is getting wet while setting up the tent in the rain. Separate question; how to you like the Mosko Moto Reckless 80 set? I'm eyeing towards it for my freshly bought Yamaha XT660R, though doubting if I need the 2 aux poxes.
I have seen some of this tents in action, looks like a great lightweight option. Yeah, i think this is a feature that many takes for granted, to set up the tent in rain without it getting wet inside. I absolutely love the Mosko Moto setup for my travels. It is really great and high quality with great well thought out features. Highly recommended
Really good looking tent. I've recently bought the Nordisk Halland PU-2. Also have a simple iglo for 3 persons, but I found it too big and heavy for on my bike when I go camping alone. Maybe this one (but in 2p version) will be something for me in the future. Will only buy a 3p tent if my husband decides to join in more on camping trips. He's a bit of a Cinderella.
I used the same tent (Halland 2PU). But it was a little too short for me and i had the same condensation issues that TSHansen mentioned. Besides of that it is a really good tent. I used it in the alps and on a longer trip to Tuscany, Lombardy and the north italian lakes.
Thank you Dusty.... I already have a World Raid first impression video where I talk about some of the key differences for me towards the 790. Maybe I should hook up with mattias soon and do a direct comparison video with his new 890 🔥
Thank you Kim, hope your bike is going well. It is somewhat expensive, I agree, but this is a tent you will have for generations if you take good car of it. 👌🏻 So if you use it as much as I do, it is a cheap investment 🔥
@@tshansen the bike is almost as i want it and looks better the me 😜, i now that hellsport tents are great , and one day i will have one . But for now i will handle with the Camp gear i have , hope for a great season with more km then last year
5:10 Du skal vist snart have nyt bag dæk på 😀 Jeg har et lignende telt fra engelske Vangoo, men kun med én stang i midten, ellers meget identisk. Så er vægten lidt mindre. Men jeg er også til 4 persons telt. Du er god til review videoer.. jeg har netop købt Ground Chair efter at have set din video. Godt arbejde 👌
Hahaha, ja jeg skal bytte bakdekk i løpet av den neste uken 🙈 Fortsatt litt mønster igjen (til små kjøring) Vel takk for det Morten, selv føler jeg at jeg sliter veldig med å lage reviews. Vanskelige filmer å lage (alltid usikker på innholdet) Men alltid kjekt å prøve noe man ikke er like god på. Ground chair? er den ikke god vel?
@@tshansen Jeg synes dine reviews er rigtig gode. Skåret ind til benet uden alt for meget snak og med alle de væsentlige detaljer. Jeg har ikke modtaget stolen endnu. Jeg valgte den, efter at have hørt din udtalelse om, at det var mere afslappende at sidde i den lave stilling.. og at benene ikke synker i jorden. Hvilket dekk skal der på denne gang?
@@farcinsen81 Tusen takk for ærlig tilbakemelding, Det skal jeg ta med meg videre og kanskje ikke være så fremmed for å lage flere reviews. Ja ground chair har jeg med meg på alle mine turer. Fantastisk stol. Jeg skal ha på igjen tkc70 rocks bak, så jeg får slitt de helt ut før jeg legger på et helt nytt mitas e-07+ igjen.
Hi Thomas. I bought the exact same tent last February and took it for a first trip this week. However the tent was leaking( had quite some rain…). Not sure if it was leaks or condensation but via the mesh openings in the inner tent quite some water dripped in and got me wet. According to Helsport the threads will expand over time and the tent will be leakfree. But I have a hard time believing that. Did u have similar experiences? And how did u solve it? Thanks!
That is not good to hear🤔 no, i have not had similar experience! I have had condensation, but not leaking like you describe here! I have a hard time believing that as well! The tent adjust over time? Hahaha, worst response ever
Tjena tjommi! I have been watching a lot of your videos lately and I've been wondering.. when you go on your adventures, approximately how many hours do you drive each day? And also, what’s your max and minimum hours that you would drive on a day? /Curios swedish neighbor :)
Tjena Oliver. Well, I have a own "rule" I follow on all my trips, I want to set camp between 18 - 20, so I'm finished setting camp and have made me something to eat before it's getting dark. I try not to ride or plan more than 300 - 400 km each day, but that can variate a lot. I try to enjoy the trip, not getting to a certain place. So if I'm really into video I drive way less than if I just ride. How many hours I stay on the bike depends on when I leave camp. Normally I try to get going before 10 in the morning.
About 600 euros in some stores here in Norway. That i think is a really cheap and great investment. Compared to how many night you can spend in it compare to what a hut or a hotel room cost. Cheers
Yes, i have tried it a couple of times! In winter i like a tunnel telt better because you can dig a cold pit and have more space for heating inside the tent!
Yeah, it is an expensive tent you will probably have for the rest of your life if you take good care of it. Only on the inner tent, not the outer. This is made for 4 seasons and nordic climate
Can we seat inside (measuring 1.78m) in a chair like Hellinox Zero or Robens Pathfinder without rubbing the ceiling ( or the luggage net)? Your version of the tent is not the SuperLight, right?
This is the pro, not the superlight, that is correct! I can easily sit inside with my helinox ground chair, but not tested with my other helinox chairs, i tend to favourite my ground chair
Depends on the situation! I would not be without any of them! If i camp over the tree Line there is better to have tent, or if you have rally poor weather! But it is much more comfort in a hammock and so much better to sleep off the ground!
I am curious on how the pack size compares to the Amok hammock set up? As I have less luggage space on my DRZ400 than you on your T7WR. And my current tent has a very large packed footprint.
The AMOK system packs smaller than when I bring the tent. When I go camping with my AMOK, all my sleeping gear and my sleeping bag fits inside the stinger, but when I use the tent, I need to bring the sleeping bag in one of the side pockets.
That looks a really good tent, I have the Naturhike mongar 2, it was only £130 but it has good reviews for motorcycle camping. Maybe this tent you have may be my next tent giving the room it seems to have and packs down so small 👍 do you use davinci resolve for editing?
Nature hike has some really nice tent for a fraction of the money (compared to other brands) That is always hard to beat. Yes, I use DaVinci Resolve for all my video editing. Either on my iMac or my iPad 👏🏻
Hi Thomas! We are going to norway on our motorcycles in august, and plan to Camp on campsites. Os it possible to use hammocks there or is it only in the Woods? We are going from Oslo round the workers museum in rjukan and round to Kristians sand for the ferry Home.
Hello 🤩 It depends on what campsite it is. Some campsites has good options or places inside to hang a hammock, and others not so much. So i always try to look at satellite imagery from the campsite and see if there is possibility to hang a hammock. The main season is over in August, so there should not be any problems with crowded campsites.
Noraly............."what's a tent???" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have my old one from 1988 from going to forest fires out of state. 1 man. We all lived out of them for 2 weeks. My gear fit fine. Besides, the others would laugh if you had a tent for 2 or 3 people when you are the only one in it. 😁 Forest Rangers do not want to be called Girly men. 😂 Interesting. thanks.
Real men don’t care if the rangers laugh or call them girly men 😉🔥👏🏻 they just smile in silence 😆 we all have different needs and a one person tent is to Small for my needs
@@tshansen You got me. As I never did care what people thought of me and at 66 still don't care. famous saying..."I'd rather be hated for who I am, than to be loved for who I am not." That has always been me. I was just trying for another laugh with you. But, I did not say me.. just rangers in general. thanks. What does your other friends Nomad sweden use? I know Runa has a small one too. I guess you will be seeing her this season on her new husky. 🙂
Yes, there is a dedicated footprint, i have it on in this video! It is really good, in heavy wind as well, but i did not have footage of this to include 😔
