One of many huge issues I encountered after I was seeking to outfit my Can-Am Maverick X3 with a rooftop tent was discovering a roof rack that may be strong enough for me to attach one to. Most had payloads of lower than 150 kilos, whereas most tents sans individuals are already exterior that vary. Add a full-size grownup human man with a bunch of looking gear and Strawberry Bitter Patch Youngsters, and also you’re an evening of collapsing onto the side-by-side’s roof.
The entire thing ended up with me discovering the parents over at Prinsu, who make a roof rack for my X3 that was sturdy sufficient for the Roofnest hard-top rooftop tent, myself, and all my gear. And this 12 months, I actually examined the power of the rack, as I spent a lot of nights atop my Can-Am monitoring, killing, and carting out my first bull elk. That seek for Prinsu’s roof rack, nevertheless, took some time for me to execute, as scrolling by the specs of numerous Can-Am roof rack payloads was a chore.
I spent hours wanting by boards and threads and producer specs earlier than I acquired the Prinsu. However perhaps I would not have needed to search as exhausting as I did had the Groenberg Weekend rooftop tent been round. Why? As a result of this can be a critically ultralight rooftop tent, weighing lower than my looking pack when outfitted for a single-day backcountry journey.
Rattling, that is gentle.
Groenberg markets the Weekend rooftop tent as “the world’s lightest rooftop tent,” and weighing in at simply 30 kilos, the corporate is completely right in that assertion. Hell, that is a light-weight tent for any kind of tent, not to mention one designed on your automobile, truck, or side-by-side’s roof. However greater than something, as a result of it is so light-weight, it will not have an effect on your rack’s payloads in the identical approach as different rooftop tents, that means you have got extra entry to different roof racks.
In keeping with Groenberg’s Kickstarter marketing campaign, which has already been funded, “Overlook every part about rooftop tents. You do not want a storage, you do not want instruments, you do not want sturdy pals. This ultra-light rooftop tent packs down so small it even matches in your closet. And it may well simply be assembled by your self with out breaking a sweat. The Weekend is a revolutionary rooftop tent designed for contemporary life. Extraordinarily gentle, compact and inexpensive – excellent for spontaneous weekend escapes, festivals, and street journeys. Whether or not you reside within the metropolis or simply need to journey gentle, Weekend makes rooftop tenting lastly accessible.”
Likewise, Groenberg claims to have solved one of many largest points for rooftop tent house owners: elimination. They is likely to be proper.
At the moment, my Roofnest remains to be on my Maverick X3. And it’ll stay there for the foreseeable future, because it’s actually a nightmare to take away and/or connect. It takes a minimum of two individuals, and is less complicated with three, as the method is a ache and the entire thing weighs what feels just like the sum whole of a full-grown bull elk. It is about as straightforward to maneuver as a full-grown bull elk by your self, too. However the Weekend will be eliminated by your self as a result of it weighs virtually nothing. In actual fact, on the marketing campaign’s touchdown web page, the designers present you possibly can truly take away the entire construction whereas it is nonetheless erect.
As a result of it is so light-weight, nevertheless, there’s some setup required when you get to the place you are going, as like a conventional tent, there are poles you may have to string, a mattress you may need to inflate, and a few rain flies to push outward. However for people who do not thoughts that, and wish one thing extraordinarily light-weight, or simply stowed when not in use, rattling, this appears to be like like a helluva deal.
As for worth, proper now, Groenberg remains to be within the manufacturing section of the Kickstarter, however advertises that after early adopters and funders get theirs, the Weekend will value 999€, which interprets to about $1,100, which is significantly lower than most different rooftop tents in the marketplace, however far more than a conventional tent. There’s additionally no phrase on whether or not or not Groenberg will promote the Weekend right here within the States, however it will be rad in the event that they do, because it may assist out a variety of side-by-side house owners with sleeping within the woods.
Fingers crossed.
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