Originally Posted by phughes

I've never seen the appeal of trekking pole type tents for bicycling. I get it for backpacking, you will have trekking poles with you, so you save weight by not carrying tent poles. The posted tent is a very good one, but for bicycling, you generally won't have trekking poles. On top of that, I think that my carbon fiber trekking poles weigh a little more than my aluminum tent poles do. I see no advantage.