iceline v.s beeline

mikeyott

mikeyott

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ottawa ontario canada
alot of guys prefer the iceline eye to eye over the beeline i find that the iceline has less friction and tends to slip when wet but yet again havnt used it much could just be the wax have yet to find an advantage tho.
 
Hard comparison IMO. What knot are you tying? What rope do you use it with? Do you natural crotch or use a friction saver? Or do you climb on a pulley. How much do you weigh as a climber? These all seam to add up for me when i compare certain friction hitches, and cords.
I use ice all the time and have found a sweet combo with velocity line with a friction saver. I would just keep using it and trying different knots and ropes until you find what works good for you.
 
I use the iceline for my lanyard and the beeline for my mainline. The ice with an ascender knot because its so pliable it sticks a little better. The beeline with a knute on the poison ivy main line cause it reacts better to a pully.
 
i find it too slick ive been climbing on a beeline for 2 yrs never had any problems everyone loves this thing i just dont see the advantage.
p.s its called a "michocaun" not a knute haha everyone around here calls it a knute too.
cheers!
 
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i find it too slick ive been climbing on a beeline for 2 yrs never had any problems everyone loves this thing i just dont see the advantage.
p.s its called a "michocaun" not a knute haha everyone around here calls it a knute too.
cheers!

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the michocaun and the knute are two different knots.
 
I used a 10 mil Beeline all last season and my buddy used the Ice eye to eye on our climbing lines, and I have to say, his Ice looks about 10 years older than my Beeline, and I climbed more than him. So I can't really speak to performance (I used his Ice once, a few weeks ago) but I can definitely say that the Beeline wears better over time. Now I'm onto the 8 mil Beeline and I like it even more than the 10 mil.
 
yeah i'm a beeline junkie. went from 10m to 8m and it has never let me down. i even got my old school boss to ride the VT with 8m beeline. and he is a die hard blakes man. now he rides a Sequoya SRT with a VT!!! you can teach old dogs new tricks.
 
I didn't use Beeline for long,as I found it a bit soft.....I refer Bailout, on 11-12mm lines anyhow, though it is a bit stiff......it shows almost no wear months later. Like HRC on larger lines....
 
I didn't have trouble with my ice slipping, and I actually found that it gripped better then the 10mil Beeline. However I did find it wore very quickly.

After one solid week of climbing it looked like I'd used it a whole season. And as Muggs said above, it now lookes 10 years old. So im replacing it with the 8mil beeline
 
I use ice and love it! I have climbed on beeline as well, its ok. I guess it depends on the way you climb but the very first time i used beeline I glazed the polyester(Black strands) so i stick with ice never glazes.
 
hrc is the bomb. had ice it wore out to quick because it is a self abrading cord.
like 10 mil beeline for a blakes. but hrc on an eye 2 eye is the bomb no glazing good bite, good release, long lasting! what more can you ask for?
my $.02
 
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