Lightweight tent recommendations?

@hippy no, haven't a rack but building up a mtb. so the tent can go under the hb inside a bar bag.
@Belagerent and @Nick_S I will keep an eye out but surely no tarp for me here in the UK :P

Going rate for a genuine trailstar seems to be over £200 at the moment.

A lot of lightweight solo gear seams to be 3-season though it would probably be okay for sheltered conditions without snow.

Agree with this. I think Scottish mountains in winter would probably be the only likely use case for true 4 season kit in the UK.
I've been doing year-round bivvying for nearly 3 years now, mainly in the Peak District. The coldest I've needed to deal with was -4°C.
Winter kit is an Alpkit Pipedream 400 sleeping bag, Exped UL synmat and Exped down socks, plus either bivvy bag and tarp or a Lanshan 1 tent.

Alpkit rhymes with shit for a reason,
£100 will get you this nice tent or you could stretch a little bit to this lovely one.

Alternatively one of these two on ebay

thanks @platypus

Alpkit rhymes with shit

Poo shovel thread ?

They're super light but does the lack of having a fully sealed (normal tent w/ floor) option not expose you to stuff like the Midges of Doom I keep reading about in Scotland thread?

camping somewhere with loads of insects shows either that you are dumb and picked a stupid campspot (e.g. low down, out of the wind, by water), or that you are masochistic and went to insect central at the wrong time, or both.
you might need a bug net if you're going to somewhere malarial, I doubt anyone in this thread is soon

I refer you again to the Touring Scotland thread. Personally, I think it's Scotland's version of Drop Bears.

Also, "low down, out of the wind, by water" is where I would normally prefer to camp. That's why you need someone else who attracts all the mozzies with you.

Anyone considered making their own tent from Dyneema? The Big Agnes
Tiger Wall 2 Carbon weighs 656g and costs £880, so make one for a bit less. Just an idea.

https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/equipment-c3/tents-shelters-c25/two-person-tents-c26/tiger-wall-2-carbon-with-dyneema-tent-p12703

yes, look here, but DCF isn't cheap - https://old.reddit.com/r/myog/search?q=dcf&restrict_sr=on

Crikey. someone made a 227g tent. The materials cost 300 euros. Whatever they are. https://old.reddit.com/r/myog/comments/ldynph/how_light_can_a_full_feature_dcf_tent_get_8oz/

camping somewhere with loads of insects

Maybe someone is just doing the Munros in their spare weekends or available holidays. Having lived in Argyll I would always look for no-see-um netting in a tent inner or midge netting.

a little late to the short pole thing....

I got a Paria 2P which is a 2 person trekking pole tent. Then I go the MSR 2-pack of red tarp poles and they fit very very easily in a my half frame bag, take up almost no room and work well with the tent in place of said trekking poles. they are not short, but the fact that there are only two and are almost exactly the length of a frame bag makes it a total non-issue.

Of course setting up a trekking pole tent takes some extra minutes, but it's not bad at all and the money savings, low weight, and packability for a giant 2 person tent is really great. IT is also theoretically nice to be able to pitch the outer first in the rain, but I know that in practice that's going to be a wet experience anyway.

https://www.pariaoutdoorproducts.com/collections/camping-tents-backpacking-tent/products/arches-1p-and-2p-backpacking-tent

https://www.msrgear.com/tents/tent-accessories/adjustable-poles/adjustable-poles.html

Pre-pandemic I bought a Wild Country Coshee Micro V2 and finally put it to use earlier this month. Soon after buying it @platypus ridiculed this type of tent as being a coffin, so I feared the worst but it was surprisingly good. You can't really do much in it other than sleeping, I wouldn't want to be taller than my 1.82m, and getting in requires some gymnastics. But it packs down to hardly a thing and pitches in a couple of minutes.

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Compact and bijou.

Always wondered if these were any good.

Got my tent pole bag yesterday from beerbabe.co.uk. Holds the standard length Fly Creek 2P poles and means the grrl doesn't have to carry them on her top tube, freeing that up for a more useful top tube bag.

If BigAgnes ever sell their ShortStik tentpoles separately this can be repurposed as a beer can transporter.

Anyone know if you can buy these glow-in-the-dark tent peg pulls separately?

They come from S2S Ground Control pegs but I want to stick some GITD shit onto my pegs.

Like these but a pack of 10 for less money...
https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/equipment-c3/tents-shelters-c25/tent-accessories-c33/other-tent-accessories-c315/night-glow-zipper-pulls-p1940

EDIT: Maybe these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254920708832

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002983134835.html

Thanks. I don't use aliexpress.

I've found lots of little black plastic ones in the UK (why would you put something to aid night visibility in black plastic?!) but nothing the same locally as those Chinese ones on ebay.

Oh, this joint maybe: https://www.edcgear.co.uk/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=CCN130

I tend to get this kind of stuff from CountyComm. Not very useful if you're not in the US though
https://countycomm.com/products/zipper-pull-hi-viz-zombie-green-3-pack?variant=16968160084038

Yeah, that's how I found the UK EDC site carrying the same things.

sorry for being harsh. it looks surprisingly good indeed.
keep it well ventilated and it should last you many happy trips.

I use gitd paracord.
I still have a bit knocking around somewhere. How much do you want?

Check fish sport shop, they have cheap fluo stuff