The Ultimate Ultralight Bikepacking Advice Page
Posted by Chris Futers, Lois Fife and Rob Farquhar on Jul 16, 2025
Bikepacking
Travelling on two feet can require little more than a rucksack to carry your belongings and enable you to travel far. An ultralight journey on two wheels can require a bit more thought. Some of the main factors being the terrain and the duration of the ride. Gruelling miles off road can feel very different to those on the road, and take a lot longer, but the rewards when both road ri
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Big Agnes Tent Guide
Apr 15, 2025
We stock the key ranges of Big Agnes tents, find out which they are and what they do here. — It's a straightforward pitch, just one pole. The bivvy can be secured with five peg-out points, though only three pegs are provided, unless in strong winds, once your matt is inside, that will give the bivvy most of its structure. I'm assuming the "three wire" in the Three wire hooped
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UOG Review - Outdoor Research Stargazer Bivy
Posted by Mark Richardson on Nov 30, 2020
The Stargazer Bivy has made my bivying experiences much more enjoyable than with my older, basic unhooped bivy. I think a hooped bivy is more than worth the extra weight penalty for the additional room and comfort it gives you by keeping the fabric away from your face.
The intelligent design means that the angle of the hoop gives the bivy a reasonably stable structure. Using the 2 peg i
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Cairngorm Treks Review - Rab Ridge Raider Bivi
Posted by Cairngorm Treks on Feb 18, 2019
The Rab eVENT Ridge Raider Bivi is a product that had us a little
baffled at first. It weighs in at a little over 1kg and packs to about
the size of a 3-season sleeping bag. This makes it quite a sizeable bivi
bag with modern solo trekking tents coming in at a similar weight and
size. So why would you choose a bivi bag over the comfort of a tent?
With all good products the proof is in ho
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