CSG
Explorer
Mike hooked me up with a guy who lives near me and gets into my town from time to time. He's got a small Maggiolina GT mounted on his truck shell and called me today saying he'd be at Sportsman's Warehouse if I wanted to see it.
His tent has had reasonably hard use and is about 4 years old IIRC. He cranked it up, set up the ladder and I crawled up there to give it a once over. My 10 and 12 year old boys got out in the drizzle to check it out themselves. I have to say I was impressed. The regular length just fits but at 6' I think I'd like the longer length.
This fellow was a big fan of them and told me how well they held up in the rain, snow, and wind.
The only thing that made me a bit hinky was coming back out. You've got to sort of pivot around in a 180 which is where any risk of slipping is going to happen. Probably want to practice a bit. It's that 3AM call of nature that is where I see a potential accident taking place but, obviously, many people seem to make out OK.
One humorous note that any of you who own one probably have dealt with before was that no sooner than he started cranking this thing up two gals screeched to a stop, rolled down their window and asked what in the heck was that thing? He told them a little bit about it and gave them Autohome USA's web address. They watched for 10 minutes!
I'll have to give this some real thought though. While it's a great set-up for sleeping quarters, I'd have to leave it on all the time as I couldn't get into my garage with it on and that means parking outside year round.
His tent has had reasonably hard use and is about 4 years old IIRC. He cranked it up, set up the ladder and I crawled up there to give it a once over. My 10 and 12 year old boys got out in the drizzle to check it out themselves. I have to say I was impressed. The regular length just fits but at 6' I think I'd like the longer length.
This fellow was a big fan of them and told me how well they held up in the rain, snow, and wind.
The only thing that made me a bit hinky was coming back out. You've got to sort of pivot around in a 180 which is where any risk of slipping is going to happen. Probably want to practice a bit. It's that 3AM call of nature that is where I see a potential accident taking place but, obviously, many people seem to make out OK.
One humorous note that any of you who own one probably have dealt with before was that no sooner than he started cranking this thing up two gals screeched to a stop, rolled down their window and asked what in the heck was that thing? He told them a little bit about it and gave them Autohome USA's web address. They watched for 10 minutes!
I'll have to give this some real thought though. While it's a great set-up for sleeping quarters, I'd have to leave it on all the time as I couldn't get into my garage with it on and that means parking outside year round.
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