Hubba Hubba Bikepack (1, 2-person)

MSR Hubba Hubba Bikepack 2. very Compact and light, stealthy(dark Green Color) and Comes in its own handlebar bag. I am 100% convinced of it :)

Keeping to the same format as the previously posted sleeping pad chart, I went ahead and did the tent chart, and then changed it up because there was a lot of feedback about tent pole length being more important than the total volume, which I agree with, and price, so here's all 3 of the charts for tents I made. These are based on what we stock and not everything under the sun. I threw the Lunar Solo and Redverz tent on there for a reference on how small and large tents can get. My focus with Moto Camp Nerd is pack size, quality, and making camping easier. We started keeping the bikepack tents in stock as well as some of the more reliable and quality backpacking tents with 16” pole segments. I have slowly brought in backpacking tents with standard pole lengths per customer request since they didn't see the value in the increased price of the bikepack tent with short poles being $80 or more over the standard tent. Funny enough we've had a hard time selling through them now. Like everything else in camping gear, bigger tents = more materials = larger pack size. We have a handful of requests for tents people can stand up inside, but for the most part, riders seek a tent that they can easily pack into their panniers, cases, or rackless setups and I want to keep the focus on packability instead of stocking everything under the sun. As in my pads post, this is were I get overly in depth. For those who aren't total nerds with gear, another big conversation to be had is that the main two materials being nylon and polyester for making tents play a big part in pack size and weight. Due to poly being thicker and heavier than nylon, it’s going to pack as such, but also at a cheaper price point. One big pro for polyester is that it does not hold as much moisture as nylon does. Have you ever seen a tent sagging after a rain or lots of dew? That's nylon holding water. Now it's still waterproof and doesn't mean you'll spring a leak, but it's something most don't consider when picking a tent. Welcome NEMO's OSMO fabric which is a nylon poly hybrid to give the best of both worlds. Now I'll admit I'm a little rusty on the most modern fabrics because I know polyester has come a long way and is being used by many in their tents and still packing just as small as nylon, but I feel NEMO deserves some credit for bringing this to the space. I haven't brought in any dyneema tents because we only get a couple of asks a year, and for the most part, most riders feel the bikepack tents are too expensive for their needs so it's been hard to justify adding an $800+ dyneema tent, as much as I want one myself for fun. All of these are considered 3 season tents and are great for all year use for most moto campers unless you’re consistently camping in below freezing temps without huge temperature swings. The mesh breathability with a rain fly really help prevent too much moisture build up inside the tent for all the spit we exhale in our sleep along with the humidity. The only time I'd consider a winter tent or expedition style tent would be camping in consistently below freezing temperatures. This sort of leads into double wall vs single wall. Tent body plus rainfly is a double wall setup and the best option for the above mentioned humidity and nice to have the ability to ditch the fly on clear nights and enjoy the air. Single wall tents are just that, single piece of material, more common in the trekking pole backpacking style tents and the super cheap Coleman or family style tents. The backpacking tents like this have a good amount of design behind them for helping prevent moisture build up with better airflow, but its still there. Just like the sleeping pad chart, it was fun to lay this out and see the outliers from the pack. The MSR Hubba Hubba Bikepack seemed a lot smaller than the others when it came into the store, and after mapping it out, and reviewing the specs, I see it. Funny enough, the standard copper spur falls in with the Hubba Hubba, it just has the longer pole sets, but by volume, it's close. Another redditor mention having a chart of these based on interior volume so that will be the next phase. I will say since the Hubba Hubba is rectangular instead of tapered plus being symmetrical it makes if feel much roomier inside than the Nemo, or Big Agnes tents. The best bang for the buck it's a tie between Kelty Far Out 2, and ALPS Mountaineering Helix 2 for motocamping. For the best easy to use small packing tent, I love my Big Agnes Copper Spur, but I feel the MSR Hubba hubba bikepack has pushed it's way ahead as a small packing, easy to use, fully freestanding tent. Semi-freestanding tents use the Y or wishbone style pole configurations and require two of the corners to be staked out to get the full tent volume. These are nice if you want the convenience of moving a tent around like a fully freestanding tent, but also want to shed some weight and pack size. These are: Fly Creek Tiger Wall NEMO Hornet I've sort of brain dumped everything I try to tell new riders to camping here as a reference to answer all the common questions and thoughts. After my last pad post the feedback and comments were great and reminded why I like reddit more than other social media sites. I came from the forum era where information on forums was like the modern library for tribal knowledge and reddit has filled that void as forums phase out.

Hey dude I was in the same boat as you last month, went for the Hubba Hubba bikepack 2, I've used it a lot already in various weather, it's survived a fair amount of wind and rain and while probably isn't the lightest, I use it a lot for wild camping and me and my friends are all 6'6 and I don't like to be cramped. It blends in pretty well to environments and has decent features to make wild camping easy, you can pitch it fly first with no mods by just rolling the fly and inner together in your bag, takes more skill but when it isn't raining you can pitch in 2 minutes It's a really good tent, I was really sceptical of it's rain resistance because I've been caught out a lot of times in a poor tent for the weather. Since buying the tent, I've got a lot more faith that despite the low HH and thickness, because it's so taut, water just runs off. My friend has the 3 man version and I've seen it survive serious storms. Get the footprint and do it all properly and it's more than enough for UK weather, Also if you want any advice let me know, my friend and I are doing a long bikepack soon and last month concluded our tent research and purchases

This. I love mine!

We just returned our Hubba Hubba (broken pole after a few uses) and got a Nemo Dagger. The Nemo seems more durable so far, very impressed with the design.

Such personal decisions! Everyone has their set of personal criteria. I’m 6’4” and need space! Went through some cheap tents and finally landed in the Hubba Hubba. Love this tent! Hope you can find your match without going through 4 or 5 tents like many of us do. The whole gear thing is a long and winding road, just hope you get out on the bike a lot cuz that’s what it’s really all about! Ride on.

We really love our MSR 2 man tent!

I have an MSR 2 person tent, and it's very lightweight. It was also expensive. I think they do 3 person versions as well (Mutha Hubba?).