Originally Posted by
cyccommute
What kind of tent are you carrying? A 21.3 L bag is on par with a very large sleeping bag stuff sack. I put my pad, sleeping bag (even the 20° bag), and pillow into a 15 L stuff sack. My tent bag volumes are 3.7 L for a single person tent (10cm x 48 cm, 4" x 19") and 4.5 L for the two person tent (11cm x 47cm, 4.5" x 18.5").
Assuming the same pole length, your bag would be 9" in diameter. I can see why you went the compression route, but I can't see why any tent for bicycle touring would be need to be 9" packed diameter. And the poles don't stuff at all.
I can't ever remember carrying my tent poles in the same bag as my tent, ether backpacking, climbing, or cycle touring. Heck, I don't even do it car camping.
My poles either go inside my rack pack or under the bungee cords on the outside. It sort of depends how I feel that day
This is my tent and rainfly compressed to a height not much bigger than my 20 oz. (0.6L) water bottle. The volume of the compressed bag is a little more than half the volume of the 8.4L bag when it is empty and not compressed.
