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Re: Tarptent

Postby Strider » Sat 04 Feb, 2017 4:06 pm

Copper Spur requires vestibules to be pegged out.

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Re: Tarptent

Postby Franco » Sat 04 Feb, 2017 5:57 pm

Apart from that, like most BA tents, it needs extra pegs to keep the fly off the inner.
Not by chance that BA shows that in their official photos.
(the fabric in the middle of the visible end is pulled out. By what ?)
BTW, this has nothing to do with quality or performance , it is just about the term "freestanding"
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Re: Tarptent

Postby kitty » Sun 05 Feb, 2017 8:39 pm

MrFaulty wrote:thanks - I did look at that one but I am particularly after a tent which can be free standing and it didn't look like it fit the bill

There is a free standing light weight tent currently in market square.
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Re: Tarptent

Postby slparker » Thu 09 Feb, 2017 12:36 pm

Strider wrote:Copper Spur requires vestibules to be pegged out.

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My impression of the definition of a freestanding tent is not that it requires no pegs, but that it does not require tension of pegging the front and rear of the fly to stay upright.
I can't think of a tent that will stay in one spot without pegging or weighting with rocks.
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Re: Tarptent

Postby Franco » Thu 09 Feb, 2017 2:10 pm

and that is what I found amusing, in a way...
Tent A : freestanding, requires 2 pegs to work. (say that Copper Spur)
Tent B : not freestanding, requires 2 pegs to work (say Tarptent Moment)
but then again I like to look at how it works in practice rather than in theory.
So is this new TT shelter freestanding or not ?
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Re: Tarptent

Postby Neo » Thu 09 Feb, 2017 5:11 pm

No, I see pegs! A nifty end design though.

Those $25 domes with just a mini fly over the mesh peak are probably freestanding. Anyway, back to the OP, a Rainbow or a Moment? (or a Bowfin)
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