Roof Top Tents - A fad?

Bought mine becuase it’s expo as fuck. I suggest you do the same.

 

EAF...my favorite new line!

 

Can I be your favorite girl to?

 

I don't do long distance relationships...sorry.

 

Wtf bro? Really bro? Why bro? Come on bro? Bro?

 

It's not you, it's me.

 

It’s always been you.

 

Around us? yeah man, def. In general, maybe. But they are useful.

 

go to your own forum

 

Trying to get banned here first

 

This.

 

ha go to bed boy

 

Last day of work for me tomorrow, it’s like Christmas I can’t sleep.

 

I love my RTT. it’s my personal preference. Do what u like and stop your none sense.

 

Oh shoot! I wasn't talking about my own build at all. I meant to drop a link but forgot to paste it. Thanks for the kind words anyways!

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/1-bored-clerks-garage-built-camper.457359/

 

Hahah...I thought your wording was odd. I was like does he mean "my build"?
Lol

Wow! That's a sweet build. I read most the 1st page and skimmed ahead. I'll read more later. You're correct...right up my ally.

 

They are not a fad. They are just lame. I posted the reasons for my opinion on another thread, but figured I’d add my thoughts here as well. Save your money and skip the trendy purchase. There are more disadvantages to them than advantages:

- once a RTT is set up you can't use or move your vehicle.

- once you are back from your rain-soaked trip you either have to remove the RTT from the vehicle (two man job?), or leave the vehicle parked while the tent drys out.

- you are up in the wind and cold.

- your center of gravity is made higher, creating a less safe vehicle on the highway and off-road.

-you need a flat area large enough for your vehicle to also be able to pitch your RTT. Most of your camping will be in the parking lot, not down by the lake. (Proven multiple times on my summer road trip this year through the Chilcotins......seeing some geek stuck in the gravel parking lot with his RTT while all the cool kids have the sweet lakeside walk-in sites 20 feet from their vehicles....had to laugh).

- the idea the RTT will protect you from bears is completely false, and basically feeds the modern couch-potato's irrational fear of the outdoors, while not protecting then from the real hazards (what exactly are these “critters” you are afraid off? I’ve camped all over North America and dont know what they are). Millions and millions of men and women slept outside in ground tents for years and years during the settlement of North America, and in the past 100 years of recreational camping so did millions of families. They were not all eaten by bears, but may have better understood you can't sleep with a side of bacon in your tent. If a bear or wolves want to get into your RTT, you're not going to win. They just stroll up your hood and they are in. Don't sleep with bacon.

- on a muddy or dusty trail, your tent is now muddy and dusty (at least the cover which you must now remove).

- they seriously reduce your fuel economy if they are high mounted, and they take up all your bed space if they are low mounted. The better your range on a single tank, the more places you can travel without the stress of running low, or relying on Jerry cans.

-they are expensive. Spend that money on fuel and time off for some real adventures.

All in all, I think the greatest selling feature of RTTs is simply that they prey upon modernpeople's fear of the outdoors, so they provide some sort of perceived "safety" due to their attachment to the vehicle, and most people have an irrational notion that ground tents are hard to set up based on old Peanuts cartoons or something. Modern ground tents are totally great in design, compact, lightweight, inexpensive, and set up in no time at all. Don't drink the Kool-aid on the RTT. They are for dweebs .

 

^^^^ someone who can't afford a RTT detected

 

Ummmm nope.