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Pictured here is the new spacecamper, usually a business for converting vans and such into campers, for cargo bikes.

I'm kind of undecided on this. It feels very convenient, unless you have an ultralight tent the weight of your bike, and your supplies and the tent and the bags and whatnot seems sort of the same as this stuff.

What do we think about the concept? Cool idea to incorporate your bicycle into your sleeping arrangement for trips or dumb playtoy?

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[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

crucially this specific design even has poles, which look about 80-90% of the length they'd need to be to give the equivalent tent height without using the bike. so the tradeoff between floor space and height seems even worse than it could be