- G'day folks, Ben from Snowys here.
Today taking you for a walkthrough of an ultralight swag.
This is the Oztent ULS-1 swag.
ULS-1 swag is light on features,
but it's also really light on weight
making it perfect for motorcycle tourers.
So the ULS-1 swag by Oztent is made for motorcycle tourers.
It is a compact swag.
There's not a heap of space to move inside,
but it's designed to fit comfortably
in panniers or on the back of a touring motorcycle
or a cross-country motorcycle.
The main difference between this and other swags is
it doesn't come included with a mat.
So you would wanna choose your own mat to go with it.
And it gives you the flexibility of choosing
a really lightweight mat that's gonna pack up small.
Potentially pack up inside this with the swag,
if it was, say, an air filled mat.
Or you could pick a thicker foam mat, if you like
which is gonna make it a bigger pack size
but it also gives you the flexibility
of packing that mat and this separately on your motorbike.
So you haven't got one large sort of roll to pack somewhere.
The benefit though is it's made
of really durable, high quality material.
So the same material that Oztent have made
all of their products with previously.
This is their eight ounce Ripstop polycotton canvas.
Now, they don't state a waterhead rating for this.
On their RV tents we've found it to be,
found the details to be about 1500 millimetres,
but whatever the case, I've got an RV tent
and I've had that keep me dry in really wet downpour, so
no worries about waterproofness of this tent here.
If you've got it set up like this, it's gonna keep you dry.
The bottom is a 350gsm PVC tub floor,
so even if it is set up on wet ground
this is gonna keep you dry.
And then there's mesh, 65gsm,
or no actually, I think it's finer than that.
Got a nice, fine mesh panel in the top here
and also vents in the ends.
The combination of all the quality materials
that Oztent have always used in all of their products,
just in a nice compact swag this time.
You have single skin so there's no inner and outer,
the only double section is this
and the spot underneath that.
We'll go into the bit more on that shortly.
Now, the poles, there's not many poles in it.
You've got this hoop pole here,
this is anodized aluminium at the foot end.
There is a small anodized aluminium upright pole as well.
And there's also a small fibreglass pole
that's kind of built into the tent to give it
some structure and stability.
Having a walk around the outside of the tent,
we'll start at this end
and I'll use this opportunity also
to point out the lightweight aluminium pegs.
They're Tri Pegs that come with the tent.
So this has kind of got that hiking feel about it.
So they're not heavy-duty steel pegs,
they're lightweight aluminium pegs to save a bit of weight
which is what you're looking for, for motorcycle touring.
You've got this vestibule over the end here
with a bit of a vent up here.
So this goes up to a mesh panel at the top here.
I'll just take this off of the peg here
to show you underneath.
So a bit of storage,
this comes about 50 centimetres out to this point here.
So you could store a bit of stuff under here.
It's gonna have, if it's really wet and windy
things are gonna get wet,
but you've got this little sort of flap of fabric here
which, not even, it doesn't secure up here or anything.
I think it might have been put there to
be able to secure these straps
which are used to roll it away, so you can't lose them.
They have just made it slightly larger
so that you can actually put things on top of it.
So if it's wet ground or, or muddy ground,
you've got a dry spot to put things on top of.
And then you've got this mesh panel in here.
No zips or anything,
you can't access that from inside the tent,
that's purely there for ventilation.
And then this big awning sits over the top of that
for weather protection, comes down nice and low.
So you get good ventilation
with lots of protection with the rain.
Moving back around this side of the tent.
I might go right down to the foot end of the tent
to start with,
before we crawl inside.
This is, I guess, not really a vestibule,
just a tab over the top here
with this little pole that I talked about before.
It's got a little foot on the bottom
to stop it sinking into soft ground.
That just gives this end of it a bit of height,
because there's no poles in the sides here.
There is a little spreader pole across the top here
just to give a bit more foot space.
And then up underneath that, there is a small,
can't quite see it from here,
but you can see just here, a small vent
to allow a bit of ventilation.
So you get ventilation from both ends of the swag.
Nothing more to see at this end,
just the guy rope to hold it all in place,
but if we move back here to the,
where you get in and out of the tent,
pretty simple.
So if you're looking for something
with a door on the side that you can sit at,
on the side of and kind of have breakfast
then this is probably not quite the design you're after
'cause it's just got a small opening on the top here.
Now this is all,
like I said, it's made to be compact and lightweight.
So it doesn't have all the extra awning features
and doors and access points that a lot of swags will have.
It's just got this one entry point on top here.
So we can fold this back.
This gives us ventilation out the top
so if it's a warm night,
we've got that ventilation at the head end,
ventilation at the feet,
ventilation through the top here.
And we can see the night sky.
If it's really wet, then we zip this up
and we've still got ventilation at each end.
We undo this.
We can also roll the this up.
There's another tab under there,
so we can secure this here if we want.
So if we're not the type to get eaten up by mozzies
and we want to just sleep in the open sky
with everything open above us,
you can just lie in there like that at night.
Now you can see there's no mat inside here.
It's just that heavy-duty PVC base floor.
So in terms of a mat to fit in here
you've got 210 centimetres of length.
So more than enough than what you'd need
for a lightweight hiking mat to fit in.
So it tapers from about 70 centimetres,
70 centimetres in width, sorry,
at the head end here
and down to 50 centimetres at the foot end.
So those three dimensions, 210, 70, down to 50,
are well within what you need to fit
a lightweight hike mat in there.
And if you get one of those air filled mats,
they puff up to sort of five to eight centimetres
in thickness, but they pack down really small.
You can actually roll that up inside this swag here
and probably still get it back in the bag.
If you wanna get a foam mat though, something thicker,
it's just gonna be a little bit bulkier.
The alternative is to be able to pack
your swag and your mat separately,
which might work better for your pannier set up anyway, so.
Plenty of space to fit a mat inside,
but just be aware it doesn't come with a mat.
Get yourself a good quality mat anyway.
Now, I'm gonna crawl inside.
There's not a lot of space in here.
It's certainly claustrophobic,
in terms of
how swags traditionally feel for space.
It's almost like a bivy sack,
a heavy-duty bivy sack, I suppose.
Now I'm 185 centimetres in height.
I've got reasonably broad shoulders,
so I can feel,
like if I sit up here
the fabric is against my shoulders here.
So, comfortable to sit up like this if I like.
I guess I've got a space to, to eat here,
if I wanted to sit inside my sleeping bag
while I'm inside here still,
but not a lot of wiggle room.
But it certainly is going to achieve its job
in terms of giving me shelter.
So I'll slide down in the tent.
Now I've got big size 12 feet, as well.
So I've got them upright in the end here at the moment.
They're just touching the top there.
You wanna make sure you have good ventilation.
If it's a really cold night,
just be aware of condensation inside the tent,
being a single skin tent
you might get that condensation build up
inside the actual tent.
If I lie down here now,
and I'm gonna disappear right inside the swag.
I've got heaps of space in terms of length.
Plenty of head space here,
my feet, I can't,
I can't see,
I can't see my feet, but they sit upright quite comfortably
in the end of the tent there,
right where there's a vent.
I can wiggle them around.
They're not touching the sides, so.
I don't know if we can see
inside the tent there, to the end,
how my feet fit at the end.
But I would,
I don't feel claustrophobic height-wise.
I mean, I'm not claustrophobic anyway,
but I don't feel too crammed in.
It's about 60 centimetres of head height here.
So once this is done up over the top,
I can't sit up,
but I've got room to roll around, I suppose.
My shoulder is still
within the height of this here.
If I've got a bulky sleeping bag on it
it might sort of rub the top a little bit, so.
It's
It's certainly not made for heaps of space
inside the tent,
but there's enough to keep you dry
if you're doing motorcycle touring
and you're trying to fit that light weight,
or balance the light weight with durability.
Other features inside the tent here,
there is a mesh pocket on the side here,
so you can keep things at hand
so they don't get lost during the night,
but that's pretty much it.
There's no power access points.
There's no lantern hanging points or anything like that.
They've really stripped it down to try and keep it
nice and lightweight,
nothing more to see at the end.
I mean the end is actually quite good for foot space.
I've slept in envelope style swags before
where your feet feel a bit cramped,
but this actually does feel pretty good for foot space
with that extra pole at the end there, so.
I say it offers pretty good space
and it's quite a good balance
for
motorcycle tourers who are perhaps looking for
something that's maybe more durable than a hike tent,
a little bit simpler to set up than a hike tent.
They're not looking for something that they can sit in
and play games, or
or bunker down in for nights upon end.
They just want something that is a shelter
they can pull up,
peg it out, crawl into,
stay dry and warm for the night,
and pack it up nice and easy the next morning.
That is a run-through of the Oztent U L one,
ULS, sorry, Ultra Light Swag One from Oztent.
An ultralight, single skin,
easy set up, all-in-one swag for motorcycle touring
that is gonna give you years and years of use,
'cause it's made with really durable materials.
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at snowys.com.au, where you'll find 'em
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