Planning to be a rally maggot this year. Anyone know of any 'bike friendly' tents and sleeping bags? Where to buy and how much? Argos do a three man tent dome style for fourty quid but im not sure how small itll get for strapping onto the bike.

Check out 100% Biker, there is a company that sells loads a cheep gear, they have got a two page spread.

That tent zombie comes in a lil bag about 2ft long by about 10 inches round put that on ur bike no prob & you wont even now it is there

A mate of mine puts all his camping kit into a ruck sack ( including tent & sleeping bag ) but don't know if that would be a good idea for you.

Tried it once myself but it really affected my balance

ill make sure i drop off supplies every night from the local travel inn.

ah the joys of a warm bed a bathroom and a tv

I've got one of a similar size and it sleeps two with loads of gear easy.

I've got a set of soft panniers and they work a treat with your sleeping bag and tent on the pillion seat. I've even squeezed a tailpack on there.

LOL EB........ ya great big wussy boy you ! praps a nice trailer tent would do....

Course you can carry that on yer bike! I used to take same size tent on my baby Yamaha, with all the rest of the bits and pieces - sleeping bag, stove, spare clothes etc. It all packed away like this:

And gave me lots of living space like this..... I can't be doing with any less space, it doesn't feel like home unless I can spread my stuff all around!

It's nothing to do with tents but on the subject of what you can get on the back of a bike I bungeed a MZ ETZ 250'S engine onto the seat of a Suzuki Gp100 before, apart from it taking up most of the seat space the weight wasn't a problem.

Is that the fastest a MZ engine has ever moved.

I've got that argos 3 man tent (i'd prefer 1 man an 2 girls though) it's ok only lasted me one Rally season though. can sleep 2 people quite Comfortably only thing i don't like is i'm 6ft 1" tall an there ain't a lot of headroom .Does Pack down to a small size i usually strap it across the Bars on me Chop

Sold! Cheers pugwash bought it today and it looks okay - not fancy but then im an ex soldier so im hard as feck! Im not really but itll do!

so why are you bothering with a tent?
wassammarra with yer bivvy then?

And how hard would 'Feck' be then Mr Army man??

Too subtle? No one get the nuance? Oh well.

.... and remember to dig a deep ditch around the tent to protect you from the locals lol

When I were a lad in the trenches all we had were a corrigated piece o' tin over our heads n' a bucket to wash our smalls in IF WE WERE LUCKY n' we caught the shells jerry threw at us and chucked em back just fer fun.

And you say you were hard my son..I used the cold steel they don't like that up em.

Well for the record, we had to dig a hole about as wide as we were then dig a trench as long as we were at the top of it. Cover the trench with a poncho then peg that down and cover it with earth. Then stand in the hole poiinting a rifle into the unknown while our boots filled up with water . It was cold and sleeping in in was a fecking joke. If any enemy came my way theyd have slipped right by as i was so fecking tired i was snoozing standing up most of the time - and this was only on excersise!

I am not nor have i ever been hard. I say that i am tongue in cheek.

aw shame

Dont fret Snappy - SOME bits of me get hard from time to time.................