Living proof….

[Santa-2512]

Penta hard December,

camping . vanning, chalets, hotels

Choose your weapon & if your hard enough , the rest as they say , is up to you ....

 

[Wapping]

Can’t see a single Hilleberg anywhere!

Rip-off, mate. Absolute, rip-off.

 

[glenn2926]

And they’re all wrong. Can’t see a single Hilleberg anywhere!

Poxy modern shite, give me a Blacks Mountain or failing that a vango force ten anytime. The original canvas one of course.

 

[JoeBiff]

 

[Engineer]

The next London event is scheduled to be ‘on the outer reaches’, some way from the London mainline terminus towards Cambridgeshire. You might like to book a hotel….. or bring a tent.

I'd get the ECM from Sandy into KX to any London event, wouldn't risk getting the GS stolen.

 

[Engineer]

Spent a week in France. Kipping in a tent. Be it 42°c during a day and as low as 8°c during the night. It was a blast and an Adventure, apart from a single campsite with pure clay pitch, without a blade of grass in sight.

Some people feel the need to be punished to atone for their sins.

 

[Barnoe]

When you sleep in your tent, you sleep 3 foot from your bike.
Surrounded by other bikers in the middle of nowhere.

Your bikes a lot safer than in a travelodge car park.

At night you can all sit round a warm fire, drinking and admiring each others bikes (while again, keeping an eye on them)

Horse for courses.

 

[Wapping]

When you sleep in your tent, you sleep 3 foot from your bike.
Surrounded by other bikers in the middle of nowhere.

I am not convinced you are selling it too well.

 

[SteveT]

And they’re all wrong. Can’t see a single Hilleberg anywhere!

At least two of them seen by me, along with some other high priced canvas caves.

All I ask of my tent is that it's water proof and stable in slightly more than gusty winds

SteveT

 

[The Other PaulG]

I love camping. For me it's just an elaborate excuse to sit around a fire drinking this -

 

[adventuredon]

I get to burn shit and eat meat with friends..

 

[grantmac]

Or in some cases burn the meat and then eat the shit….

 

[adventuredon]

not happened yet...You're confusing my skills with the annual UK burger/banger BBQ day where it pisses down..

 

[JonnyBravo]

I love camping. For me it's just an elaborate excuse to sit around a fire drinking this -

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ha! still have the hangover

 

[Hann]

 

[grantmac]

Isn’t there an “h” missing…..

 

[Northern jock]

Why does anyone bother slumming it in a tent these days?

There are perfectly good low cost hotels, inns and airbnbs all over the place.

Clearly, for some, camping enables you to sleep in places where there are less people, away from the busy areas that are full of hotels, inns and airbnbs.
Examples in Spain, Corsica and Scotland, nowhere else to sleep anywhere nearby but 3 stunning spots, plus one by the sea with a hostel nearby . And I had refreshments with me on each occasion.
The last one was on the Cuillen ridge on Skye about three years ago.

 

[brut33]

Clearly, for some, camping enables you to sleep in places where there are less people, away from the busy areas that are full of hotels, inns and airbnbs.
Examples in Spain, Corsica and Scotland, nowhere else to sleep anywhere nearby but 3 stunning spots, plus one by the sea with a hostel nearby . And I had refreshments with me on each occasion.
The last one was on the Cuillen ridge on Skye about three years ago.
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I'm with you on this.
Hells Mouth in Wales. It got a bit busy at one point when a yacht went past.

 

[snelly]

Clearly, for some, camping enables you to sleep in places where there are less people, away from the busy areas that are full of hotels, inns and airbnbs.
Examples in Spain, Corsica and Scotland, nowhere else to sleep anywhere nearby but 3 stunning spots, plus one by the sea with a hostel nearby . And I had refreshments with me on each occasion.
The last one was on the Cuillen ridge on Skye about three years ago.
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With my luck if i was to pitch in a deserted place next to a track; that would be the place wherethe only vehicle on that track would swerve off.

 

[busy builder]

I went to the Twat rally on Orkney in my (£400) Vaude tent. My three mates went with those round pop up tents that cost a fiver.

Well, being Orkney we had a great night, howling winds and lashing rain, I ended up with 4 of us in my 2/3 man tent, infact out of about 20 tents half of them blew away or were ripped by the winds. My Vaude hardly moved, was staedy as a rock all night, the morning after was devastation.

vaude make really good tents, and I'd say the green tent behind the bike on the left of the photo could be a Vaude.