Not for cycle camping no. For car camping being able to walk in and out and stand up would be a huge improvement over crawling in on hands and knees as is the case atm with my lighter tent, which has an inner sleeping compartment. Simpler access and egress may be worth looking at. The air frame tents seem to be increasingly popular atm. I think that Kim and Barakta now use something similar to this...
https://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/15982377/eurohike-genus-400-air-tent-15982377
'tis this one, bought last week, debuted at the York Rally this weekend:
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/4-man-inflatable-blackout-tent-air-second-4-1-f-b/_/R-p-302837This is an upgrade on our now rather tired Quechua car-camping tent (the closest current model would be
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/4-man-tent-with-poles-arpenaz-4-1/_/R-p-4123 but $generic_poo_colour and with a side rather than end door).
Instant review:
- It's about double the packed volume and a few kg heavier than the older tent.
- End-opening is a better layout for living in, but means managing a wet door is more complicated and it's less convenient as a bike garage.
- I'm broadly sceptical about the whole inflatable thing (not least because you need yet another type of pump
[1]), but the risk of barakta suffering a nasty dislocation while pole-wrangling has become substantial, the technology seems reasonably mature now, and this tent at least succeeds in achieving the headline feature of being easy and quick to (all-in-one) pitch single-handedly.
- Fresh&Black technology prevented us from baking to death or reaching audax levels of sleep-deprivation at the rally, which was Too Hot.
- The integrated groundsheet is good at excluding draughts and reducing beastie ingress, but I can see it being a pain if things get really wet inside. White is a silly colour for a groundsheet, but it does make finding things in the dark easier.
- Some shortsighted, bordering on idiotic, design decisions with regard to zip direction on the sleeping compartment door (double zipper, but opens at the ends not middle, as if they've used one designed for a sleeping bag) and groundsheet (attaches to sides of fly with zips that start at the front end of the tent, which means you can't partially unzip it and fold it back to expose a bit of bare ground for your muddy boots and the inevitable door drips).
- It survived a proper downpour and its first earwig with no ill effects.
[1] The poles on this one at least should be inflated to 7PSI. That's way more pressure than a typical airbed type inflator can achieve, and way more volume than any sane tyre pump will manage in a timely manner.