Advantages: Sturdy/Practical/Lightweight/Cheap Disadvantages: weak poles
I have owned a Gelert Solo since May 08 and have used it on a weekly basis until Nov 08 in Snowdonia.
The Solo costs peanuts and the next tent of comparable ability is twice as expensive. The tent is double skinned, so you don't wake up at 4am in a wet nylon mess.
At 1.5kg it is very light and the Solo's carry bag is as big as two rolled up newspapers. It ACTUALLY fits in it's zip up bag and has a repair kit in a zip pouch within. This small pack size means it straps neatly on any number of places on your bergen ("pack ", to you civvies!). To pack the Solo actually inside your bergen would be no drama either and it is ideal for all you cycling and canoe freaks who delight in shaving your legs, or drowning in rapids.
The tent has two poles. a big one and a small one, so even in the dark you can't mess up. The inner pitches first ...
pol10134 19.12.2008
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Advantages: Lightweight, Small Pack Size, Durable, Attractive Design Disadvantages: Small living/ sleeping space; Flysheet not easily secured to inner; Inner-First pitching
The Gelert Solo is a lightweight, 2-skin tent which is great for cyclists or walkers. It is also good for those campers who enjoy the group camping but not the sleeping in a big tent. You can think of this as a, seperate sleeping space once all the festivities have died down.
The inner-first construction can be seen as a disadvantage seeing as the inner is almost completly mesh and would get incredibly wet if you were pitching it in adverse weather conditions. On the otherside of that remark, however, the inner can be used alone in hot climates to keep insects off but a cool breeze blowing through.
The outer isn't incredibly easy to attach correctly. It has ribbons to tie to the inner to hold it all up nicely. I personally, have never tied these as they are hard to get to with the flysheet flapping in the wind and are also too short to ...
RhysLawson 06.09.2009
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Advantages: Good looks, 2 stroke smells Disadvantages: unreliable, expensive parts - Italian
I thought I had better share my brief affair of 6 months with a 1995 Aprilia RS250.
I am not going to bother going through the specs - you can get that info from numerous websites. When reading reviews it is important to understand what the product is like to live with on a dialy basis and find out what it does well and what it doesn't do so well. so.......................
I bought one just for a bit of fun over the summer months - and what a big mistake it was.
Riding the RS gives you horns, the handling is phenomenol. It is just so light and flickable that twisty roads are a pleasure. The tyre stick like the provrbial to the shovel and the engine just wants to be revved. The harder you thrash it the more it likes it. It just screams and screams, and....screams.
The RS is hard work to ride and requires thrashing. It's lack ...
yackers1 15.03.2007
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