MSR Hubba Hubba Bikepack 1

We don't stock this shelter and haven't slept in it. What we hold is the measurements its maker published, and the one question those answer that a spec sheet never does.

MSR Hubba Hubba Bikepack 1 — shelter drawn to scale. Inner floor 215.9 by 76.2 cm. Packed poles 30 cm: fits across a 40 cm drop bar.
MSR Hubba Hubba Bikepack 1, drawn from the maker's published figures. Inner floor 215.9 × 76.2 cm, with a 183 cm sleeper drawn in for scale. The packed poles are 30 cm.

Will it go on your bars?

The folded pole set is 300mm, the 3rd shortest of the 29 shelters we hold a pole length for. At 930g it is 16th lightest of 37.

On drop bars
300mm poles — fits drop bars

Comfortably inside the usable span on drop bars, with room for cables and a harness.

On flat bars
300mm poles — fits flat bars

Comfortably inside the usable span on flat bars, with room for cables and a harness.

A pole set clears drop bars under 350mm and is marginal to 380mm; on flat bars those figures are 450mm and 500mm. Those are usable span between the hoods, not measured bar width. Check the clear run on your own bike before committing — hoods, cables and light mounts all eat into it.

What will it pack into?

MSR gives the packed size as 14 x 6.5 x 4.5 in / 36 x 17 x 11 cm, which read as a box is 6.7 litres. Of the 55 bags we hold a published capacity for, 27 have room for it on their own and 28 do not.

Volume against volume, which is the honest limit of this: it says the bag is big enough, not that a tent-shaped object goes through its opening. "Spare" is what is left for everything else, and a shelter that only just fits leaves nowhere for a sleeping bag.

What the maker publishes

Folded pole length300mm
Packed size14 x 6.5 x 4.5 in / 36 x 17 x 11 cm
Minimum weight930g
Packed weight1270g
Sleeps1
Inner floor215.9 × 76.2 cm

Blank fields stay blank. Where a maker doesn't publish a figure we say so rather than estimating one.

Shorter poles and lighter, same capacity

The only unambiguous comparison: shelters sleeping the same number that pack shorter poles and weigh less. Anything else is a trade rather than a win.

Nordisk Lofoten 1 ULW
220mm poles · 490g

How this figure is held at all

29 of the 43 shelters we track publish a folded pole length. It is the number that decides handlebar carry and the one most makers leave out, which is why the tent finder filters on it and reports how many shelters it had to exclude for missing it. The shortest set we hold is the Nordisk Lofoten 1 ULW at 220mm.

by Brian Williams · 6 years bikepacking