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25.5.2020

Unfortunately, although there are things to like, this is the first tent I've wished I didn't buy for some time.I'll start with the positives:The tent, Roben claims is 2kg maximum and 1.8kg minimum (see negatives) which for a tent this size and cost, is not too bad at all. Pack size is good, a little smaller and lighter than the Banshee 200 while having more usable space. For this reason alone, I am persevering with the tent for bike touring and will see if I can live with it's foibles.*The Porch is a great size, leaving enough room to cook, store gear etc.*There is enough room to sit up in the end of the tent and work in the porch. This is what I was mainly looking for in a tent these days (Bad back/knees).*The colour of the tent is nice.Darker than in Robens promotional material, and though certainly not stealthy, it's not the bright red that many tent manufacturers seem to go for. It is embossed with little Robens motifs which is a nice touch.The negatives:*The design of having a guy rope over the entrance is very strange. I may remove it but I get the feeling this will make tight pitching even harder than it already is (see below). It gets in the way to some extent when entering and exiting, and also when opening the door fully...also not made any easier by the.....*Ridiculously oversized storm flap. This is good in principle, as it covers the ventilation mesh from oncoming weather but unfortunately when sitting in the tent at the door, you basically have a good face full of red material, as opposed to whatever idylic lake or mountain you have camped at. It also means you have to open the tent door blind due to having to bend your arm under and around the offending storm flap. The Robens voyager, from which I assume the design is based has a much shallower flap.*It's quite difficult to get a taught pitch. I never understand why many tent makers don't add peg loops to the longer edge of tents like this. All guylines need to be used and adjusted properly to get anything like a decent pitch.*Having weighed the tent, it is 2.3kg without packaging materials. 300g more than the stated maximum weight on the label and website. This is an unnaceptably high discrepancy for a hiking tent. How to get to the 1.8kg minimum weight is anyone's guess, as this is not a freestanding tent, making guy lines and pegs mandatory.*The materials are simply not nearly as robust in feel as the Vango, or other tents I've seen at this price. Even my 'cheapo' tents (Quechua 2.1 and Coleman Darwin 2...a highly underrated budget tent in my opinion) feel much more bomb proof. In fairness this could be perception. Time will tell how robust it actually is.*The biggest problem was that my tent had it's colour coded poles mixed up. The red pole ended up being for the black sleeve and vice versa. Though in some ways an amusing, silly mistake from my point of view, for a beginner this could have much more confusing and frustrating implications, including severe damage to the poles and tent.It's difficult to find a tent that is Light, Robust and inexpensive. Although this fits some of the criteria, I can't help wishing I went a bit heavier or more expensive to avoid some of the compromises inherent with this tent.I contacted Robens (as a previous Robens tent I bought had a hole in it direct from the factory and faulty seam tapes). No hint of an apology or acknowledgement of problems, so as a result, I won't buy from Robens again.