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.
I don't use poles to hike so they aren't an advantage for me either way, but some folks may like to have them even for short hikes when touring. So maybe in that case they might be an advantage.