LuxuryLite Cot
Customer Feedback since 2007
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Greetings: I purchased
one of your Ultralite Low Rise Cots after seeing the review in
Bentrideronline.com
The cot and I just got back
from a 15 day tour of
Colorado and they were the best night sleeps I've ever had in a tent.
The cot performed beautifully. Thanks for a great product and I know
you're going to be getting some orders from other fellow riders
soon. Thanks Jeff
8/28/2007
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Hi, I just got your cot,
tried it and love it. With a 2" inflatable the
weight is four pounds, less than a thick ThermoRest,
a better insulator and
as comfortable as my
bedroom mattress. Feel free to quote. Kelly Walker
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Hi,
This cot is so light that you
can add a pad.
I used a Big Agnes Primaloft, air-core mattress. 20x72x2.5. They make another
same size, insulated air-core, same weight, but more expensive - works as well
but with the cot you don't need the insulation.
I tried a half-inch thick ThermaRest which was not as good. A thicker ThermaRest would start adding too much weight - but I tried
a 2.5 thick and it was no more comfortable than the air-core Primaloft.
Anyway, I never use the
air-core on the ground because that's just asking for a leak, but on your cot
it is heavenly; the cot protects it from getting a puncture and the cot alone
is great even if the mattress fails. I've always been troubled by the hip-joint pressure point; I have to
sleep on my side. This bothers me more than rain or snow, its the only real
downer on my hiking trips.
Nothing else has worked! Not even a 2.5 thick air-core on top of a 2.5 ThermaRest (hard to believe), and that weighs more than the
cot-mattress combo - wow. This is why I've got so many damn pads.
I can't believe that cot and
mattress weigh only 4 lbs., but my fishing scale should be spot-on. This is
with the addition of a spare cross-member for the cot, just in case.
I'm going to take it on a
trial sometime in Sept. If it works as good as it feels I'll be getting at
least one more for my daughter. A good night's sleep on the trail is worth far
more than the cost of this cot.
BTW, I weigh 190 but my bones
are pushing 50 yrs.
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The cots... oh the cots my
friend... what can I say?!!! All
summer we have pitched our tent where we would NOT have been able to without
those cots!!! We stay on the rocks by the edge of the lakes and rivers,
no more endless time searching for flat ground! And my back is saved!!! Those
cots alone have improved our experience because of where they allow us to
camp.... in every single
situation we are nowhere near anyone else because they can't sleep on the
terrain that we can... pure joy!!! What a product!!! I attached a
picture from our last trip to Alice Lake, my wife fishing jsut
a few feet from our tent!!!
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I took this on Cycle Oregon last year and l sletp
SO well on it. As good as my bed! Easy to
set up and did not have to worry about leaky air mattress of stiff piece of
grass puncturing me. Laid a flannel liner on top for some warmth and then the
sleeping was toasty perfect every night. Force 5 Robert
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Hello Bruce,
I purchased one of your
excellent LuxuryLite cots online this summer and recently returned from a
three-week trip during which I used it almost every night. I am 5'5" tall and weigh 165 lbs. I am exceedingly pleased with the comfort the cot provides and its
lightweight, portability.
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Nancy Allen and I just
completed a 77 mile backpack in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. We both took along the Luxury Lite Cot.
Nancy has always hated backpacking because she can never sleep at
night. This year, she fell to sleep
immediately and got a sound nights sleep each night. This made her a happy camper. I enjoyed my restful nights sleep too. I didn't wake up at night except to visit the
bushes.
Jeanie
One of the carbon siderails on my cot broke just beyond the last footpiece. Can you tell me the cost for replacement? I use this everyday as my bed as
well as for travel and it has been fantastic. I'm also using it when I do
medical patient transport, sleeping in the patient family homes or airports to
save families the cost of putting me up in a hotel. LOL..the security
people all ask me the product and website name...lots of them campers,
apparently.
I now hang a sign on my bag telling the site name and my flight number
and time with a "please don't wake me unless you want a demo of the
cot" sign. If it happens to fall under warranty, I'd
like to see if I can get the replacement part before shipping the broken one
back. Of course, I guess I could always
rough it for a few days on my old sleeping pad...yuk.
Sherpas in Tibet near Everest
Sherpas in Tibet near Everest
Sherpas in Tibet near Everest
Bruce, I am back from Nepal. The cot was excellent and the
insulating pad worked well. Others in camp were quite envious. I gave
them all your web site and hopefully some sales will come of it. I have
attached a couple photos of me and the cot at Ama Dablam base camp. Thanks
again, Scott.
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I want to let you know how
much I enjoyed using the Luxury Lite Low-Rise Cot this summer. This is such a
great product that I would love to see it
around for a long time. A friend and I each purchased one of these cots
for a three week motorcycle trip in which we camped out all but a few nights. The cots, while expensive, were
fabulous since we slept very comfortably each night with none of the aching
back or soreness we're used to from using just an inflatable mattress.
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We got up in a campsite
"Shio-no-misaki"
in Japan, with Ultralite Cot. Very impressed with its size and weight and your idea! It is
difficult to realize one's idea into actual product.
Thank you very much for your
effort. Satoshi&friend,
with great pleasure.
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Bruce, I am getting ready for a bodacious bicycling
expedition. I am riding
from Missoula, MT to Denali
Park in Alaska. It will take 70 days and
pass through some very remote
areas. We will be camping each night. I
have been riding my bicycle
fully loaded and have slept in my tent a
few nights, practicing. I
slept a full 8 hours on my Luxury Lite Cot last night. It is so
great to get a full night's sleep without my back aching. Kelly Iniguez
Bruce, The cot arrived Wednesday, as promised. I couldn't wait, so this morning
I set it up in my office. I was amazed at both how light the cot is, and how
sturdy it seems to be. It's also very easy to assemble. As I mentioned before,
I'm a big guy; 6'2" and 325Lbs. The cot seems to support me just fine.
Not really wide enough to lay on my back, since my shoulders are wider than the
cot. I mostly sleep on my side and there is more than enough room for that. I
was surprised at how well a cot weighing less than three pounds could support
me. There was just a little sag in the center under my backside and hips. Maybe
a slight modification would fix this. By using double bows the full length of
the cot, it seems very strong, but stronger at both ends than in the middle;
where the bulk of the weight is. Perhaps having bows closer together in the
middle would hold more weight, more comfortably. For now, I'll use it as is and
see how it goes. I have a three day, two night trip coming up this weekend. I
look forward to trying it out for a full night.
Thanks for the quick responses to my questions and speedy service. By
the way, I learned about your products by seeing the cot in the Cabelas catalog; otherwise, I wouldn't even know
you existed.
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I tried your product
out. I slept on it for about 2 weeks
using two different sleeping bags. It’s
a great product and I love the compactness and the light weight but a 24”
sleeping platform is just to narrow for me to be comfortable. If the product was available in a 32” to 34”
width that would be perfect – even if the overall weight was higher. Backpackers must be skinner than I am – I
just seem to toss and turn on a narrow (to me) 24” platform. My mission is airplane camping and so a bit
more weight is tolerable.
I am currently using the “Big
Grizzly” cot from Cabela’s which weighs 10lbs but does disassemble to 7”W x
36”L x 4”D and is 32"W x 84"L x 9"D when open. Your cot in terms of disassembled size and overall weight is head and
shoulders above this but I have never been able to be comfortable on the
24’ to 25” wide cots. It occurs to me that you system
might work at the wider width with the legs a bit larger in diameter and
perhaps slightly beefier cross members to make it possible to support
the wider width. Sure weight would
increase but I think the overall weight – even with larger legs and cross
members would still come in way less than the 10lbs of the Big Grizzly. For the aviation crowd – that would be huge. There is a whole airplane camping market out
there.
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First off, I wanted to thank
you for writing a personal email rather than just a automatically generated
message. A lot of internet-based companies don't do that anymore and it's appreciated!
Second, I love the cot!
I'll be working in Greenland soon and camping for five weeks and I have a
strict 50lbs limit on my gear (due to the flight up there). I'm sure my
not-sore back will be the envy of everyone. I was a little bit worried that it
would work right for me because I'm a big guy but It's very solid and
comfortable.
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Was just on your site looking
for the new stuff and the updates, thought I would send you this pic, a good example of where we are able to
camp now because of your cots... on the rocks!!! Wonderful stuff my friend, absolutely
wonderful!!!
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Hi Bruce-Last week my wife,
Annie, and I were floating the Owyhee River in Southeastern Oregon with a bunch
of retired engineers. The discussion
around camp one night turned to the design of a light, compact cot that could be
carried in a back pack. As it turned out, one of the
engineers in our group had just purchased one of your cots and had been using
it for this trip. He raved about the
simplicity and comfort of the cot and brought it out the next morning as we
were breaking camp for all of us to see.
I've just received the two cots we ordered from you and have assembled
one of them and tried it out. No
disappointments here! I'll be leaving
for an extended back country motorcycle adventure in a couple of weeks and
can't wait to try it in the field!
Thanks for the quality product. Doug
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I have just returned from a four months of cycling from Cairo, Egypt to
Cape Town, South Africa, camping every night and sleeping on my Luxury Lite
cot. I love it! Have never slept better while camping. However, seven
of my plastic feet are now bent. Some
are just slightly bent, but one is quite warped. Is replacement covered under the warranty? If not, how much would new feet cost me? Or can I just continue to use them like this,
without worry? You should be getting
some orders from other cyclists. My cot
was the envy of the entire camp. See
attached photos. Kathleen Dempsey Soquel, CA
95073
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Greetings: I purchased one of your Low Rise Cots last year for a bicycle tour of
Colorado and just loved it. I am
planning a cross country tour next summer and the cot is coming along for the
snooze. I have been considering
getting a replacement unit since I've pretty much beaten the devil out of the
one I've got (the bedding sheet is showing its use). Then I saw the review on BentRider Online with the reference to a future tent
enclosure of sorts. I am struggling with
deciding what kind of tent to take and was wondering if there is an option here
to add something to the cot? If you need someone to field test the model...3500
miles would be a good test and I would be happy to try out a prototype model if
a production unit isn't available before my trip. Either way...thanks for a great product. Jeff Kline
St Louis, MO
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Hello Bruce, Well, I thought
I should write you back and let you know how I feel about the cot after using
it last summer. I used it for 3 weeks on a canoe trip in the shield country of
northern Ontario. As I'm
60+ and have a bad back I was hoping getting off the ground with a lightweight
cot(we had 23 portages!) would help
alleviate some of the problems I've had in the past with my back. And it
did....in spades! I love it. Unfortunately the sleeves of the ripstop
fabric didn't stand up to the usage we put them to. I'm about to use them again
for a one month trip in the Yukon and pray that my wife's and mine hold out
that long. The area around where the legs attach is badly damaged and torn.
Duct tape should help us through this trip I hope! Everything else about the
product is fabulous though. Have you by any chance made changes to the fabric
cover that might make the sleeves more robust? By any chance does your warranty cover this
type of deterioration of the product? I se it's less than a year since I
purchased it.
Look forward to hearing back
from you.
regards,
Peter Johnson
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Bruce: Just finished 5400 mile 11 day ride thru the
great northwest. This finished our 48
state ride. We camped 10 of the 11 nights out which is a new
record. The cots were very comfortable. I had ordered my cot from aerostich
and had ordered the below cot from you.
The only problem we had was on the below cot it seems the seam where the
support tube slides into is to narrow and the tube fits snug and we had a hard
time inserting the tube and not catching every hole for the cross
supports. My cot did not have this
problem at all. My concern is that every
time the tube gets stuck in the support hole it does a small amount of damage
and does add quite an amount of time to assemble and disassemble. Are we doing something incorrectly or has
this been a problem before? Also when
you say to positon on level ground, you mean it. We both deformed one leg each and I bent one
tube. Again this was warned against. I guess we had to make sure. Thanks for a great product that makes travel
on motorcyle that much more pleasureable.
Folks,
I'm a long time
backpacker/snow camper, etc - bought one of your cots 3? years ago, use it on
Cycle Oregon, which is a week long event in Oregon every year. Just did a
weekend ride (CO also does this event), used the cot, of course. Here is what I
posted on the forum site of Cycle Oregon, FYI:
Regarding Luxury Lite cots -
one of the pleasures of buying one of these amazing pieces of lightweight
technology, as Don "Burrito Breath" Bolton will attest to - is
dealing directly with the guy in Texas who makes these. This is a true mom and
pop operation, very small-time, and you don't have to go thru any middlepersons,
you can deal directly with the people who design, engineer and manufacture
these beauties. That is part of the experience. If you care about small world
type relationships - knowing who makes your stuff - go to their site -
www.luxurylite.com - check out all the brilliant super light weight backpacking
items they make, and you can have the pleasure of emailing or talking with
them. I think it is totally charming that he posts photos (acceptable to
Southern Baptists) of his attractive spouse. I've enjoyed personal contacts
with real people at North Face, Sierra Designs, Down Home, Columbia, Nike and
others over the years. Take advantage of their southern hospitality (their
website indicates they have a place you can stay if you visit!), and get the
uncommon pleasure of dealing with people who benefit from your purchase. I once
told the owners of Rejuvenation in Portland (they published it in their
catalogue) "You put the fun back in spending money!" Have some fun,
buy one of these directly, be sure to mention Cycle Oregon - you won't regret
it.
Every time I set up your cot, I give out your web address to 5 or 10
people. I'm planning on buying one for my 21 yr old son this fall as a present.
Love your work! Best to you. If you ever
wanted to arrange with Cycle Oregon to have a booth at their week long event in
early September - where people could "test drive" your products - I'm sure you'd sell 500 of them.
(CO has 2000 to 2200 riders, mostly 45 year old attorneys and doctors, it
seems). Note: Hire my son (College boy in Oregon with lots of back pack
experience) to staff it for you. Thanks for making it possible
for me to keep sleeping on the ground.
Gordon Anslow
- 56 year old backpacker/marathon runner/XC snow camper in denial.
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I have loved the cot. I have had
it on an 86 mile backpacking trip in New Mexico, 52 mile canoe/portage trip in
the Northern Boundary Waters of Canada, various hikes and backpacking in the
Smoky Mountains, and countless other camping trips. I can’t think of camping without
it. However, this last weekend on
a campout a section of one of the side bungee corded poles broke. It did not affect the use of the cot, and in
fact I didn’t know it had broken until I was putting the cot up after
completing the campout. So the cot
worked great notwithstanding the break.
It broke about an inch down from the end on one of the sections. It was
simply snapped in two. I’ll need to
replace that side pole. Let me know how
I need to do that with you. My shipping
address is Frank N. Stockdale
Carney 2665 Fox Creek Drive Germantown, TN 38138
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Ultra light and compact
Thermarest style mats? R U CRAZY? Comfort is important! Unless you sleep on a
slab normally the thickest largest Thermarest you can stuff in your bag is
important for your comfort. Remember this will be a week of heavily exercising
by day, some level of frivolity by night, and only the cold cold ground to
comfort you. Several years
back I went with the ultra lite cot _www.luxurylite.com and there is NOTHING
BETTER! Your bed will be the same every night, regardless of roots, rocks, or
holes. Not cheap
but neither is a good Thermarest and the cot breaks down to an extremely small
and lightweight package for transit. A Thermarest takes up bag real estate in a
wholesale fashion.
Don "always a better
gadget somewhere" Bolton
OK, since you asked - screw
any more electronics. Yah yah yah, I bring a cell phone to check in with my
lovely wife and daughter. But - I don't need no steenking
GPS. I can tell when I'm going up or down, and I WANT to be lost!! I spend way
too many days a year knowing exactly where I am and what I'm doing. Time to get
cornfused, I say!!!!
Now here's a gadget for you.
Go to luxurylite.com and buy an ultra lightweight cot; simply the best money
I've ever spent in my life. Sleep like a baby on something that weighs 24 oz
and stuffs into 4" x 16".
Tender Chunks Cycle Oregon Forum 2/26/08
The thing about the luxurylite cot that is so frikkin'
awesome is that there are no hard spots - you essentially sleep in a long
sling, and your body depresses different parts down more or less until weight
is distributed. I find every position I
turn into as comfy as at home - none of that bone-deep ache in your hips that
comes from sleeping on the ground on pads. I bought the pad that goes with it.
I also bring a flannel sleeping bag liner my wife made, and a 25 year old down
bag - most nights, I use the liner and just drape the bag over me, with feet
stuck in the bottom. (Like a comforter than won't slide off.) If I didn't have this cot, I
probably wouldn't be riding any more.
Tender Chunks
Cycle Oregon Forum 3/2/08
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Bruce, Brilliant design! I've resumed
camping after a hiatus of almost 15 years because, thanks to your cot design, I
can once again sleep soundly on the ground. I'm a side sleeper and I'd
given up on getting a decent night's sleep with just an air mattress. With your
Ultralite Cot, I no longer have to search out motels on my motorcycle trips to
get a good rest and it packs small in my saddlebags.
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Hi Bruce, Just wanted to drop
you a line about the UL Cot. I just recently
returned from a 31 day expedition to the Outside coast of Vancouver island, where I was kayaking solo (350 miles)
and used the UL cot every night. I have to say I'm very impressed and really the cot made the trip possible. Between landing on rock
beaches late in the day and having
significant shoulder injuries, the cot really helped me get a good night's sleep, stay dry, and allow my
tired shoulders and back to relax before
the next day's paddle.
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I RECIEVED MY ULTRALITE COT A
FEW WEEKS AGO AND ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN ONE A LONG TIME
AGO. I SLEPT BETTER ON IT
IN A NATIONAL PARK, THAN I DO IN MY BED AT HOME. WHEN IT GOT COOL I USED
IT WITH AN INSULATED AIR MAT AND GOOD DOWN BAG AND WAS SNUG AS A BUG IN A RUG.
I COULDNT BE MORE PLEASED WITH IT......ALEX IN ARKANSAS
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Stuart Goring in Ethopia
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Hello,
I just received your your Ultralite cot.
It's amazingly light and wonderfully
comfortable. My question is regarding the anticipated lifespan of the product in terms of frequency
of use and longevity.
I intend to use the cot for napping in the office and as a travel bed. Is the cot
capable of sustaining frequent use, assembly, and disassembly or should I anticipate replacing
the cot periodically? There are periods
when I spend weeks at the office sleeping a few
hours at a time but several times a day. I'm wondering if I need to baby
it or not and if it's designed for frequent use. Thanks. -David Lee
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Greetings: I purchased one of
your cots two years ago for a bicycle tour of Colorado. By the time the trip was over, I could have sold everyone a cot :) So now I'm planning a solo trip from St Louis
MO to Astoria OR along the Lewis & Clark trail. I'm sort of a weight fiend and even drill
holes in the tooth brush to save on weight so its a strong testimony that my
cot is comingn along.
I wrote you shortly after getting it with a suggestion to fill the ends
of the side poles so they would slide into the cot sides easier. I believe mine has suffered excessive wear
and tear through no fault of the product and I would like to see if I could
just order a replacement for the fabric itself.
The poles and legs are fine. Please let me know if this is possible and a
cost. Thanks, Jeff
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Bruce, I apologize for the delayed response - I have
been out of town. To give you some
background, I purchased
the cot with the intention of replacing my Thermarest Ultralite 3/4 Slapping
Pad. I ultimately decided to
stick with the pad for 2 primary reasons:
1) Assembly time - I
assembled and disassembled the cot several times at my office. While I found the instructions and assembly
very straightforward, it still took me 3-5 minutes each time.
2) Uneven surfaces - I used
books to create various uneven surfaces and tried laying on the cot.
I also found the difference
in weight and space difference hard to rationalize in comparison to the
pad. I am still relatively young and don't find the pad
uncomfortable. The cot was more
comfortable, but not enough to make me carry the extra weight. All that said,
your product is incredibly engineered and very innovative. If I was currently using a conventional cot,
I would switch to the LiteCot without hesitation.
Take care, Ben Spinks
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Gadling Gear: Luxury Lite Cot
by Tynan (RSS feed) on Jun 11th 2008 at 3:00PM
It was a crazy couple of
days. We returned from trekking in Yakushima, Japan
with just under 18 hours to find a condo for the next month in Taipei, pack, and
get on the plane to go there. And that's how mistakes happen. My friend and I
booked a great little condo in downtown Taipei. I could have sworn that it said
there was a bed AND a sleeper sofa in the condo. After two nights on the 3 foot
long sofa, I caved. I'd
been eyeing the Luxury Lite cot for years now but just couldn't justify buying
it. I didn't do much (any) camping, and I lived downtown. Time to pull
the trigger. My friend was so impressed with the pictures and stats of the cot
that he decided to order one as well. There's a lot to be impressed with. The
cot is full length, keeps your entire body off the ground, yet it packs up to a
tiny 2 pound 2 ounce package that you can fit in your backpack.
When the packages came
(remarkably quickly, especially considering we were on the other side of the
globe), we tore into them. We'd been waiting around all day because we knew
that if we didn't answer the door for the delivery guy, we may never get the
package (this already happened in Panama). In my excitement I tried to build the cot without the
instructions. No dice. Thirty seconds after reading the one page
instructions, my light-as-a-feather cot was fully assembled.
The inventor of the cot is a
Texan named Bruce. What I love about Bruce's inventions is that they are
supremely versatile and functional. The cot, for example, has several
configurations that you can easily put in, depending on whether you need to be
higher off the ground, have more support in a particular area, or want to pack
as light as possible. Despite simultaneously testing plastic bags as pillows,
which is a story for another time, the cot was very comfortable. It's not soft like a bed, but
instead cradles you like a very taut hammock. If a good bed is a 10,
broken glass and nails are a 1, and a bad bed is a 6, I'd give the luxury lite
an 8 for comfort. Impressive considering how light it is and how tiny it packs
up. In fact, if the
Guinness Book had a record for most comfort per ounce, I think the Luxury Lite
would win.
I'm looking forward to taking
the luxury lite with me next time I go camping, but until then it will make a
perfectly acceptable replacement for a bed. When two friends stayed too late at
our hotel and didn't want to walk home, we broke out the cots for them. When we
have sleep in an airport next month because of an overnight stopover, the cots
will be deployed My friend
sleeps on his instead of his bed, although he has to put it on top of the bed
because the apartment is so small.
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Hi there, I sent a mail when
I first started using the cot, back in 2007, to tell you about how much I liked
it. That was about a year before my
Philmont trek in June 08. I have to say that I like it
even more now, a year and a half later.
The cot not only survived the nearly one-year of primitive camping while
working up for the Philmont trek, made
it through all 70-odd miles of our Philmont adventure in the New Mexico
wilderness (breaking it down and putting it back up every day for 10 days), but
has accompanied me on every campout, every month, with my Boy Scout troop since
I received it.
I am amazed at how durable it is! After all this time the frame is perfect, and
the feet hold just as well as the first day.
Even where the fabric has worn on the rail edges, from the countless
times I’ve stood on it to put it together (on rocks, dirt, brambles and
briars), the integrity of the support is not at all compromised. It’s also still as comfortable as the day I
received it. Thanks again for the outstanding product, I recommend you to all
of my friends. Best regards, Rob
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Debbie, Thanks so much for the timely shipping. I camped out Friday and Saturday nights; it
got down to the high 20's both night's (quite cold for us Florida boys!) The
cot is great. It wouldn't work for me
using sheets and blankets but with a sleeping bag it works great. The cool mat made the cot even more
comfortable. But, I've gotta tell ya,
when I slipped my therm-a-rest pad inbetween the cot and cool pad it was heaven! All the "campers" in their motorhome's were worried about me
but I think I was probably more comfortable. Thanks so much for a great product and great
customer service. Jack Lambert.
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Wow Bruce! early this morning the parcel arrived. cot assembled in 5 Minutes, nearly
missed my call to work, tried it out and felt asleep again...superb! kindest regards & thanks a lot p.s.: i
will soon use it on a little trip, hopefully it rains so i can spend a day in
my tent in bed reading a god book ;o)
pps.: just to let you know, our customs charged me
another 6o Dollars, nevermind luxury is luxury ;o)
wayne sutherland
dapplesweg 17
CH-3007 Bern
Switzerland
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I ordered 2 of these cots in
the spring of 2008 for a 2 week Canoe trip in the Northwest territories. My wife & I are both over 50
& although I felt we could handle the canoeing part of the trip I was not
so sure about getting a good nights sleep after a long day on the river. I had ordered 3 different sets of
sleeping pads & was not happy with any of them. I found your cots in
Cabelas catalogue &
ordered them right away. I am happy to
report that they worked perfectly. The other members of our group were very
curious about them but at first there were some comments that they looked like
a lot of trouble to set up. By the end of the trip most of those people were
asking where they could get them.
Ted Craig
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Used it all last weekend. LOVE IT!
Thanks, Tom
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Bruce, I ordered Luxury Lite cot on March 4,
2009. I must tell you that it has changed my whole outlook on
Boy Scout camping. I am a side sleeper
and my hips would kill me during the night while sleeping on a
Thermarest Pad. We are going to Philmont in 2010 and I want
you to know that your cot has made it possible for me to attend. I was literally
at my wits end trying to find a sleeping solution. Thank you
for helping me continue as
Scoutmaster of Troop 342. Thanks again
for an OUTSTANDING, MADE IN USA product!
Mark Frick Scoutmaster Troop 342
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Bruce, I talked to you today about a couple of bent
bow tubes and a tear in the fabric of a LuxuryLite cot I purchased about a
month ago. I have the damaged parts
packaged up and will ship them to you tomorrow.
I also told you how much I like the product - here's my testimonial.
On July 3, 2009 I left southern California
with a group of riders on a 17-day
motorcycle ride up the Great Divide Trail, a 2400 mile route of mostly dirt
roads that roughly follows the Continental Divide from the Mexican
border in New Mexico to the Canadian border in Montana. The plan was to camp out the entire way and I
wasn't looking forward to sleeping on an air mattress. A few weeks before D-day, I saw an ad for your LuxuryLite
cot and watched your on-line video - I ordered it immediately and am I
glad I did. The cot was beyond my wildest dream (no pun
intended) - I got a
better night's sleep on it than I do in my own bed. After 14+ hours of arduous riding every day,
it was critical to get the good sleep I needed to recover for the next
day. At 68 years old, my reserves aren't what they used
to be. I needn't have worried - I got
home a couple of days ago none the worse for wear. I'm pretty sure the LuxuryLite cot played a
major role in successfully completing my adventure. Doug Printz
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Hi Bruce, I got a chance to sleep on my new cot using
the pad and pillow. I am absolutely impressed with the cot itself. Unfortunately, need more cushioning than the
pad affords. I am a big guy who sleeps on my side and found that the foam
compresses too much under my shoulder and hip and the pad made no difference. Also, I tried several different inflation
levels with the pillow and found it to be too firm for my liking. I ended up
using under a small conventional pillow in order to soften things up a bit,
which defeated the whole purpose. For
those reasons, I would like to return the pillow and cool mat for a refund.
The cot, however, belongs in the Smithsonian for technical excellence.
Thanks. Patrick Norris
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Good Morning, Bruce. Just got off the phone with you
questioning timing of a wider cot. Please put me on your list when I can order a
28" or wider cot. We own several of your cots and
are extremely pleased with your products. Thanks again, Pat Feenstra
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I really appreciate your
prompt and courteous service. The cot,
as you know, came in right on time. First actual use (not counting set up check
at home) was an overnight in a cavern (one of the few in this area not closed
due to WNS). I normally
camp in a hammock, so my preferred sleeping comfort expectation is very
high. I am quite pleased to report that
while it will not ever replace the hammocks, it is a VERY close second. I will NOT be sleeping on the ground on a pad
any more..
Superb design, well executed.
Once your cot got here, I understood the price compared to conventional
cots. There is no comparison between
your design and conventional units. After a single use, it has become my permanent choice when there are
not convenient trees. It is far more
comfortable than any pad or air mattress, even the 8” thick ones, and packs
down small.
If you are interested in user
demographics, I am a male, 51, 250 lbs, 5’11”. I have been camping since ’64 – year round
about 40-50 nights per year, with Boy Scouts and family, in small tents
under tarps, and in hammocks (preferred since back injury a few years
ago). I have been backpacking since ’69,
keep pack weight under 20 # before food and water. We nearly always camp, hardly ever stay in a
motel. Preferred camping season fall,
winter and spring, but we do camp in summer too. Thanks again – troy gilmore
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To LuxuryLite, I would like to thank you for your brilliant
products. I am extremely gracious to witness that every ounce of your
ultralight cot is dedicated to an exceptional comfort level; a work of super
perfection, or "super-fection" if I may. The only complaint I would like
to point out is that it's so comfortable my friends kept stealing it from me,
so unfortunately my first night wasn't as comfortable as it should have been.
Any tips on how to keep these amazing gears to myself?
Your UL cot, Cool mattress, and Stuff-It pillow are my ultimate camping
bed solutions. The combination of these products form an orchestra of
comfortable sleep, unnoticeable carrying weight and volume, and supreme
price-to-product satisfaction; I have absolute
confidence in your products that my future house guests will be as satisfied as
I am in their sleep experiences, because I intend to use them as not only for
camping, but also to serve
house guests. So, thank you LuxuryLite, for making my life richer. I have this overwhelming
eagerness to explorer the nature that I have never felt before; as I'm writing
this letter, I am planning for a week-long trekking at the Appalachians.
Please keep up the great work, and have a great day. Sincerely, Jae, from Reading, Massachusetts.
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Thanks for the awesome bed.
Here are the campsite pics for Bruce,
Jeff
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Hi Bruce, What a pleasure it was to meet the genius
behind the Ultralight Cot! As I said on
the phone, your cot has been down the remote Alumine,
Collon Cura and Chimehuin rivers in Argentina and the very wild Teton River
gorge in Idaho. It is a total game-changer in that it enables you
to get a restful night’s sleep anywhere.
It’s like taking a
luxury hotel down the river with me!
After 25 years of
teaching fly fishing and 40 years of backpacking, I can say that I’ve never
seen/used a more innovative and downright indispensable product. [You hereby have my permission to use my
comments promotionally if you’d like.]
Thanks for telling me about
the black plastic feet for warm weather.
Please include four of them with the cot I just ordered that you are
shipping to my friend, Dave Hagengruber, in Clancy,
Montana.
Warm regards, Macauley
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Hi Bruce, I've used your cot for nearly a year now, and have to say it makes
sleeping in the outdoors nearly perfect.
Thanks for making a great product.
I'm exploring the possibility of opening a camping supply store in the
Cincinnati area and would like info on becoming a LuxuryLite dealer. Could you provide me with product
availability, pricing, order min/max, and shipping terms.
Thanks, Marc Hess
Fireside Outdoor Gear
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Hi Bruce, I have your Ultra Lite cot and that must be
the best thing for
motorcycle camping since the invention of the tent.
Regards, Maurice
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Bruce, I talked to you
earlier today about replacement poles for my cot. I measured the black one and
it’s 12 1/8”. I just ordered extra feet
and the HiRise Kit and would appreciate you enclosing an extra gold and black
pole to replace the ones I screwed up.
I have to tell you – I’m 59,
6’2” and 275 lbs. and was turned on to your cot by a friend who is about 5’10”
and 170 lbs. We take a 1-2 week motorcycle trip every year and unless it’s
pouring we camp. I’ve gone
through many leaky air mattresses and wasn’t really sure the cot would
hold me, but I was pleasantly surprised by how well I slept on the 1st night
without the usual cold coming through the mattress. Thanks for a great product! Ken Gould
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I decided at the last minute
to order the Luxury Lite Cot , with the cool mat and the hi-rise kit. For the
Boy Scout Camp trip. It does live up to its claim , I have a really thick (famous brand name insert
here) thermal inflatable mat and they are not even in the same league.
Not to mention the 4 inches of rain that fell, kept me high and dry as the Boy
Scout tents are in a little need of waterproofing. The cot is comfortable and silent, no cot shifting noise like
the military ones. Because of the weight and size it is a perfect choice.
tom, ohio
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Hello there, Bruce,
Just got back from the week's
kayaking through the St.Regis Canoe Wilderness up in
the Adirondacks, and enjoyed
the best nights of sleep I've had in the backcountry for decades! The cot easily met my hopes for comfort - and offered the additional benefit of keeping me up off the wet floor
of the tent through several days and nights of relentless,
ground-soaking rain. So even on this
first trip it was worth the price.
Thanks for making such a very cool product, and may your business
prosper!
yours in well-rested
satisfaction, Jeff G
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Thanks Bruce, I ordered one of your cots a couple of weeks ago and used it camping on
a cycle tour last week. My
wife tried it and said she had to have one too. Very comfortable. I slept so much better than on a
thermalrest. We are leaving for a week long
tour the end of the week and so my wifes cot will be
here just in time. Thanks again, Mark
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Without a doubt, Bruce's cot is the single most important
piece of gear I own. A simple,
ingenious concept that is so far superior to any pad. IMO, the key to any pleasant outdoor
experience is having the ability to rest comfortably. This cot succeeds in many
ways. Keeps a lot of creepy crawlies off oneself to boot. This, and a warranty
of the highest quality, makes this a long term investment. Thank you, &
Happy Trails. Albert P. in the Rockies
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Bruce, I just received the
new hardbound 50th anniversary catalogue from Cabella's
and was delighted to see the Luxury Light cot listed for sale on page 474. Your cot deserves wider notoriety and
availability. It's the greatest backpacker sleeping apparatus
I've ever used. I notice you're
on the Campsaver website also. Let's hope the new sales outlets mean bigger
profits and success for your organization.
Mark Holm, Barnes, Wisconsin
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Hello, Your luxurylite cots are
somewhat of a legend for me and my brothers who do occassional
backpacking and car camping. However, I
am curious in regards to your v bags since I am a side sleeping but admittedly
on the rotund size 5'10" @ 300 lbs. Thnak you
for your response, bruce
No worries, I already have
one. In fact I think I
recommended the cot to almost everyone in Boy Scout Troop. We are the luxury
lite backpackers, Ray
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I have used the LuxuryLite
cot for the last three years while backpacking. I am in my sixties and just
cannot sleep on a pad on the ground anymore. I don't care how thick the pad is, I will get sore
shoulders and hips - I am a side sleeper. With the LuxuryLite cot, there are no pressure points.
I put the cot under my tent, Because the cot is under the tent, you don't have
to use a ground cloth or worry about rocks and sticks. If it is going to be
cold at night, just put a 1/8th inch closed cell pad on top inside the tent. I
have used the cot on the AT and PCT. I always get a good night's sleep and
don't wake up during the night because of pressure spots. Yes, it does weigh a
bit, but when you subtract the weight of your ground cloth and regular sleeping
pad, you arn't adding much weight at all. A good
night's sleep can make your backpacking trip much more enjoyable. Amazon review.
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The UltraLite Cot is as good
as the hype. No more
dealing with self inflating pads thad don't really
inflate or cheapo pads that aren't worth a damn. Or air mattresses where you end up
on the ground in the middle with big puffs of air on either side of you....
The thing also kicks butt over my previous cot that had the cross bars jamming
me in the back and weighed quite a bit more. This thing packs down small enough
to go in my backpack no prob. It's light weight coming in at just over 2 lbs. My
main reason for purchasing the ultralite cot is for bike touring. I have a bad back and more than
1-2 days camping out are havoc on my back. With this cot I could use it
365.25 no prob. Also, the thing is low profile enough to fit in a 1 or 2 person tent no prob. My
other cot would not.
It is pricey but it's made of
quality parts backed up by a life-time warranty. But thinking about it, I
easily paid close to the price in buying all of those other pads. Assembly is
easy as long as you use the right technique. My only complaint is that there
are quite a few parts involved such as the nylon feet, 2 piece cross bars, and
side rail bars. Amazon review.
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I do a good amount of car
camping, but I also wind up flying to a variety of festival events, so my
camping gear over the years has evolved more and more to be like a
gram-conscious backpacker. I do a lot of forest and desert camping, and was
finding that I just wasn't
getting solid comfort from a trail pad, and I gave up air mattresses
long ago due to how cold they make you and how bulky they are.
I read everything I could
about the LuxuryLite cot before deciding to buy it, and I still had a healthy
amount of hopeful skepticism. As a side or stomach sleeper, I've had my share
of bad cot experiences. But the small packing size and super-lightweight
profile of this one really had me curious. I took it camping in Oahu in
December 2010, just three days after it arrived at my house. I did a bit of a
test run on the hallway floor before I left and it assembled and disassembled
as easily as the literature and videos promised.
My first thought when I woke
up my first morning after
sleeping with it at the event site was "this baby just earned its
price!" I'd slept on uneven ground with quarter-sized chunks of gravel embedded in it
without any hint that was what was actually below me. Lying on my back,
side and stomach all worked, and I was well-supported in all positions. I did
use a trail pad on it for warmth and was totally cozy, plus the pad didn't slide around when
I rolled over. Three days later when a monsoon-like rain storm came
through, the cot took it's worth up a notch when my tent flooded, and the cot kept the sleeping bag and
other bedding high and dry. When my friend who had stayed in a flooded
cabin caught up with me to see how I was doing and I told her about the cot,
her immediate response to my story was "All hail the Cot!" Indeed...
Hi there,
I received my cot last week
and used it over the weekend on a one night camping
trip. I must say I am very
pleased with your product. As an industrial designer
I appreciate products that
are well developed and truly usable. It assembles
quickly and relatively easily
and packs nice and small. It supports my weight
perfectly (145lbs). I awoke with none of the
stiffness in my back that I usually
have after sleeping on a pad on the ground. I am looking forward to using it
this weekend while camping in
Yosemite and later this year on my trip to
Australia. Keep up the good work! Raphael
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HI Bruce,
I spent the weekend in
Yosemite and had another couple of nights on the cot. In comparison to a mat. I
would say for me - the
sleeping surface being raised off the ground is the most important feature for
comfort. Because I sleep on my side. The tensioned material gives in the
right places much like a hammock or a thick foam mattress. Even on ground that
is slightly uneven and covered in debris you don't notice like you would on a
mat. I am wondering if a
version of the cot could be made with a similar material to that used on an
Aeron chair.
Raphael
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Bruce, The cot was introduced
to us by a very good customer and semi-part-time employee of sorts, Roger. He is so enthusiastic about it that he left
his with us for a month so that we could get feedback. We had it out during our open house last
weekend and he actually came by and answered questions about it, we started
taking orders that day and have 5 of them pre-sold. We recently started getting
into selling motorcycle friendly camping gear as a result of our “Gear-Up
Getaway” camping trips that we do every month.
Many people are looking to us for advice on camping gear and asking if
we can get it for them.
Your cot is fantastic, this from a guy with two torn discs in his back! I will be getting
one before my next outing. Michael
Spencer General Manager BMW Motorcycles of Ventura County
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recieved the cot today after initial setup, i am very happy, much more comfortable than a thermorest,
thanks paul schluter alice springs central
australia
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Now the word luxury may not
seem appropriate on a back pack hunting trip, seems like an oxymoron of sorts.
But let me tell ya, combine
this cot with a good mat and you'll be a better hunter. I bow hunt the
high country, I've scrutinized the weight of everything I carry and even with
this product I still pack under 30 pound for 3-4 days. Buy this and you'll be
impressed with the quality for sure. Cabelas review
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It's not cheap but there's
nothing like it out there. Once you get over the initial sticker shock and put
this thing to use you'll find yourself, showing it off to your friends and family.
It's a great marriage of the comfort and versatility that comes with the ground
clearance of a cot and the lightweight and size of pad.
Pros -
- Very light weight & smaller than a standard
backpacking pad rolled up.
- Keeps you above the ground
so there's no more worrying about rocks, roots or uneven/lumpy ground giving
you a back ache.
- Better comfort than a heavy air mattress at a
fraction of the weight.
- Capable of holding a
tremendous amount of weight for it's size and weight. Exceptionally durable.
Cons
- Price is double what you'll
pay for a standard pad but your getting so much more.
- Set up can be a challenge
and requires adequate space and a fairly flat surface to accomplish. It can
also take some time.
- When set up it's very rigid
so there's no option to cram it into a space that's too small, ie a one man tent may be too skinny in places and the cot's
rigid corners will poke out.
Overall this is an absolutely phenomenal product. It's about the most innovative and effective
breakthroughs I've ever seen in outdoor products. A real achievement. Cabelas review.
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Mr. Warren, Wanted to let you know how happy I am with
the LLU Cot. We are doing a lot of motorcycle camping and the cot has helped me finally get
a good nights sleep. We are
heading to Alaska for a two week motorcycle camping trip in August as part of
the Progressive Adventure for the Cures. Do you think the V-bag would keep me
warm enough? Temps that time of year are supposed to get down to the 20s.
Best, M Dantuono
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26 April 11 To Luxury Lite, I really love your product - It's the best
gear I have tried for a long time. I have been backpacking, alpine
mountaineering, and was as assistant scout master (18 years). My 30+ years in
the high sierra - the desert, and the northwest forests testify to this cot. I put my pads and other cots
away - I'm a gear head. I have used this and slept very well. Tim Rother, San
Jose, CA.
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Got it today. My wife (who hates it when I spend money)
says it is very comfy.
In fact she said it was too comfy for camping. Thanks for
such swift service. I wish all vendors were like you. /s/ Bill
Steinborn
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Dear Bruce: I’ve been using
your cot for the last two
years, and it’s fabulous! (I think I probably sold about three of them
for you during RAGBRAI last week.) Unfortunately,
one of the black feet has cracked. I understand this is under warranty. Please let me know if you want me to send
back the cracked foot and what other procedures need to be followed. Also, if
you have cards or ads you’d like me to distribute to folks who ask, please feel
free to send them along. Many thanks,
and best regards, Frank S. Hagelberg
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Hello Bruce and / or Debbie, I
have recently returned for a 1 week camping trip where my Luxury Lite UltraLite Cot performed to my
absolute delight. Thank you very
much for a wonderful product. I assembled it after watching the videos and
found the assembly to be really straight forward. Thanks for offering the
video. I do have a suggestion for an improvement - offer a wider
model, somewhere about 6"
wider. In the warm weather camping, I
didn't use my sleeping bag, and I found that one arm or the other would fall
off the side of the cot. It wasn't
especially comfortable to have my arm hanging off. My solution was to prop my arm up on my pack,
(well actually it was a duffel bag with clothes- I was car camping not
backpacking as I prefer), and that was a good solution. I believe a wider model would really have a broader (no pun intended)
appeal. Regards, John Jelinski
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Due to having three fused vertebras in by lower back finding comfort
while out in the woods seemed impossible. Then I discovered the UltraLite Cot. This high quality American made product has allowed
me to find the comfort I was searching for while not compromising weight or
practicality. Ben Cruz, Wasilla
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Hello Bruce, My Ultralite cot been going strong for four years of continuous
expedition use now, which is very good going, most equipment doesn’t last that
long under these conditions let alone ultra light gear Unfortunately I
returned from our last trip to the Kalahari and unpacked to discover that the
ripstop fabric top is missing!!! Is it possible to purchase a replacement top??
All the best, Stuart Goring, South Africa.
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Hello there - I have had one of your cots for
about 5 years now and love it.
Use it when I go car camping and also on the week long bicycling trips I
take each summer. The holes on the
underside of the tyvek fabric appear to be
"ripping out" or getting a big larger than they originally were. Is that anything I should be worried about or
that I should try to stop by using duct tape right before the hole and duct tape
right after the holes? Or do I need to
buy a whole new fabric for the cot?
Thanks for your assistance. Cheryl Harris, Add-Venture Bookkeeping,
Inc. Portland, OR
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Bruce, Thanks for such a
prompt response to my email! Glad to
know that I don't need to worry about additional damage resulting from the
punctures I made in my cot. That's great
news! I can't say enough great things about Luxury Lite cots!! After several years of uncomfortable nights sleeping on Thermarest
pads, my husband was ready to put an end to our backpacking days. That was, until a friend of his told us about
your cots. The price for a cot is fairly steep compared to other
backpacking gear, but my husband decided to buy one and try it out
anyway. Wow, what a difference it made
in his comfort! It took a week before I just HAD to ordered one
for myself. Now we can't wait to hit the
trails and enjoy the great outdoor knowing that when it's time for bed we'll
sleep like babies and - even more importantly - won't wake up stiff and
sore for days to come. Thank you, thank you, thank you
for making a great product that allows us to enjoy backpacking once again! Julie Jensen
Awesome! Thanks. Love the
luxury lite I picked up a while ago. A good nights sleep helps so much with recovery after a day of climbing
or riverboarding. I really appreciate what you
guys do. Camilo Santana
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Hi,
Aerostich gave me your
contact information to see if I can get some
spare parts. It looks like I bought your LuxuryLite
Cot-MIL.
Love the product; it really changed my experience of camping because
for the first time I'm actually able to get a good nights sleep.
Thanks a lot. David Scarborough Spearfish, SD
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Hello, I just spent a backpacking trip with a failing thermarest and found
your site. Are there any pictures of the Mesh Cover over the cot? Is
this something that has some structure or just a drape? Thank you!
Annette
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Thanks for getting back to
me. And much much thanks for turning over the order so quick. I've been a city rat my whole
life. At 36, I'm discovering the whole camping thing. It's awesome and
surreal.
Thanks for making a product
that let's guys like me go out and explore.
Have a great week. -Camilo
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Stuart Goring in Schipol airport and Kalahari Desert
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I want to say thanks for making
a great sleeping platform. I have used
the cot on a five day, four night float on the Smith River, a week with the Smokejumper Association trail
crew and an eight day, seven night float in the Bob Marshall Wilderness all in
Montana. I had nothing but comfortable nights of sleep on this
great cot. A friend bought one at
the same time and went on the same trips and he felt the same. One night we got lazy and did not put them up
and I can tell you that was the last night that it happened. You have produced the best set of directions for putting the cot
together that I have ever used. They are
so easy to read and follow compared to any other directions that I have used. So thanks again for a great product that
works wonders and gives you a good nights sleep. David Dayton
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Other than an odd noise evey now and then I never noticed anything different, and the cot/thermarest
combination was the best I've ever had.
Better than the
ultra-firm mattress in the motel the last day of the trip. I wish you had sold these in my Army
days Thanks. Bill Steinborn
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I just wanted to thank you so much for selling me this cot! I am a boy scout leader age 46 weight 235 pounds 6’2’’. I have lower
back problems; I have tried all sorts of blow up models and roll ups. I have
purchased a large, heavy and bulky cot, which has served its purpose most of
the times. I had to go to SEA BASE (
Florida keys island with no amenities at all ! ) I had very little room to pack
and carry. I was able to fit your cot and the mattress pad into the waterproof
bag. It was a back saver
for the whole week!!
I then flew up to Colorado
for a week to live on a dude ranch. Well the beds were so bad, (we even tried putting board under the
mattress ) luckily I remembered I had my cot and set it up, and had great sleep
for the rest of my trip. You have
the friendliest and most helpful customer service, you really go that extra
mile!! - Steve 9/19/11
325lb visitor to Outdoor
Retailer.
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Hi Bruce, I just wanted to thank you for the discount
you provided me on the luxury lite cot!!! I LOVE IT. My mission trip this summer was amazing and I will tell you that everyone
was jelalous of my luxury lite cot. I slept soooo great
and it was perfect for world travel. I
just wanted to thank you so much for your support on my trip. Nicole Yandle
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Find me another cot teenagers
can walk on, October 9, 2011 By reibunny - See all
my reviews
This review is from: UltraLite
Cot by LuxuryLite (Misc.)
I bought two of these for
camping but last weekend I used them for a teenager sleepover. It turned out to
be a good way to test them out. I couldn't watch! The girls were so rough on my
nice new cots, they just plonk down on them (as
teenagers do) and with teenager stuff thrown everywhere they were walking all
over the cots whenever they needed to get up. When they stepped on them, the fabric just seemed to
stretch down to the ground without complaint and the cots were still all in
perfect shape the next day. **Very impressed**. Find me another cot
teenagers can walk on.
I tested one out by sleeping on it in the chilly room of the house with
the window open pouring cold night air on me all night. I slept through the
night and was warm in my sleeping bag,
though the plastic-like fabric felt a little hard, after all, it has to stretch
tight enough to hold you off the ground. It was still MUCH softer than the
ground but I'm a city girl and I was very aware I was not on my own soft bed.
Just before the sleepover I
added a Thermarest Prolite 4 Women's L mat which I
got on sale for $135 each. The curve of the cot holds them in place and they
turned it from 'cot' level comfort to 'bed' level comfort -- heaven. The
girls stayed in them all day, they were too comfy to get up.
P.S. I am 24 and female. I constantly get laughed at by my mom and
friends because I am pathetically weak in the arms, so believe me when I say
this cot didn't require much strength at all to set up, I just brace my arm against the inside of my ankle
and it clicks together no problem. I can do it in about 5 mins
or less. All the parts are light and putting them in place was easy (even for
me). Also when the girls wanted the floor again we just leaned them up against the
wall - easy.
Stuart Goring on Baobab tree
in Africa - Elephant proof camping
Stuart Goring camp in the
Kalahari.
Stuart Goring in Baobab tree
in Africa - Elephant proof camping.