For those who’re going bikepacking – which is off-road bicycle tenting – you may need to maintain your load as mild and compact as doable. That is the place the super-svelte bikepacking-specific Apex1 tent is available in, because it truly makes use of your bike to carry it absolutely upright.
At present the topic of a Kickstarter marketing campaign, the Apex1 single-person tent was invented by Swiss industrial designer and bikepacker Fabian Furrer. It is being manufactured by his out of doors gear firm, Aper, and is at present the topic of a Kickstarter marketing campaign.
The Apex1 setup consists of a ripstop nylon double-walled silicone-coated fly; a groundsheet product of the identical materials (besides 40 Denier versus 20); a nylon mesh inside tent; a single 5-segment collapsible carbon fiber help pole; and a number of other tensioning cords and aluminum pegs.
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All the things besides the pole and pegs stuff down into an included 1-liter compression pack when not in use. The entire shebang is claimed to tip the scales at 740 grams (1.6 lb). That mentioned, relying on how spartan you’re feeling like going, you can use simply the fly (sleeping on the naked floor), or simply the fly and the groundsheet with out the mesh.
And sure, your bike will get in on the act.
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Parked upright beside the tent, it is related to a tensioning twine that runs from the fly to its handlebars, then from its bars all the way down to a peg within the floor. This association reportedly provides the Apex1 30% extra inside house than it could have in any other case, for a complete of two cubic meters.
Setting the tent up is claimed to take lower than 5 minutes. And must you be questioning, a strap cinched round one of many bike’s brake levers acts as a parking brake. Hopefully, would-be bicycle thieves can be delay by the considered extricating the bike with its proprietor sleeping proper beside it.
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There have been two earlier unrelated bike-supported tents – the Bikamper and the Moruta – which truly integrated the bicycle proper into the construction of the tent itself, making theft fairly unlikely. Each tents are not obtainable, nevertheless.
Assuming the Apex1 reaches manufacturing, a pledge of 420 Swiss francs (about US$526) will get you one. The deliberate retail worth is 560 francs ($701).
APEX1 – The Most Packable Bikepacking Tent
Sources: Kickstarter, Aper
