Had they switched to a cobra style buckle or honestly any other style of buckle it would have been high on my list of saddles. I know they fixed the buckles but still my luck would be the opposite
You can always use pirateship, it seems odd but pretty much gives you the commercial discount for shipping UPS or FedEx, usually 70% off what the store charges a retail customer.
Both the climber with the device and I are 220#+ with gear so believe that takes some of the noticeable bounce out, atleast for myself I find tachyon stiffer than drenaline and that’s not saying much. I will say I tried climbing with blue moon on the throttle and it wasn’t very smooth unless you...
Best results so far have been with Yale blaze and Teufelberger Fly according to a climber I work with. Buckingham has released a recommended rope list and appropriate setting on their website
Only real complaint if I had one is that when through a pulleysaver or even the Naja friction saver the line is really slick, slicker than brand new drenaline, but I despise climbing with gloves so that might just be a me issue. I’m running the 11.5 version as well.
Splice compared to a Teufelberger charity/drenaline splife (that happened to be zigzag passable) lock stitching looked a little meh to me but was an early run of blue 32. My understanding for the Yale splice is that the core is removed and some sort of material is added I want to say dyneema...
Works really well with 9mm epicord with the catalyon hitch, I’ll snag a picture of the splice from Yale tomorrow. Haven’t ran any mechanicals on it but have heard good things about the rope runner pro running well. Mostly MRS use so far from me, a couple of ascents but not enough to give an opinion.
Finishing the clean out of stuff I just don’t use or didn’t work out how I wanted.
CT Cric- used twice for the woo factor on some rec climbs and then bagged, it’s a neat little device I just have a minimal gear approach for most of my pruning. $65 shipped
Shembiner XLS- I’ve loved the OG...
I’ve had the full reach and couldn’t stand the coils getting snagged by everything, I’ve ran the notch “cinch” lanyard since its release and I’ve appreciated its low profile but it’s just a saw lanyard not earth shattering but does give my 36” reach full reach. Am starting to look into break...
I’ve had a few different gear bags over the last few years, curious what other climbers are running? I’ve ran the Arbsession gear tote for the last year and a half and it’s still hanging in there. Before that I ran a north face duffel which I actually thoroughly enjoyed using just disliked...
Selling a like new Monkeybeaver 2.0 size medium, it’s in the black multi-cam pattern with the “splatter” pattern suspenders. I’ve tried and tried to get this saddle to jive with me as it is super comfy and wonderful for spar work but can’t get it to run right for my climbing style for whatever...
with my lanyard on my lower D’s, it’s overall less “stable”, more dependent on how my hips are facing, if not totally squared up I’ll spin around on the spar either direction, with the lanyard on the hips it’s significantly more “stable” and complements the rope bridge like they’re actually...
I guess I’m looking to see if I’m crazy or not but does anyone else find the lower rig plates useless as a lanyard connection point? On my Treemotion’s I ran my lanyard full time on the lower D’s, and I’ve switched over to the upper hip D’s but still not quite what I was getting stability wise...
I may be an odd ball but I couldn’t run the leg straps loose, I never could on the Treemotion either, I fought setting up the MB2.0 for almost 2 weeks I tried everything and finally just measured the leg strap distance, the hip d to forward d/ bridge distance on my Treemotion and set the MB up...