Short vs Long climbing sleeves for your hooks

[SparkyAdmiral]

Anyone else never know there were two different size sleeves for your climbing spurs?

I've been climbing on the longs adjusted all the way down but they always dug into my knees real bad. The shorties are 4.5 inches shorter which will make my days much more pleasant.

 

[Jonny]

I’ve only seen them on Buckingham’s website I think.

Wonder if you could cut the long ones shorter and just drill new holes where you want them... or possibly cut the stirrups shorter and drill and tap threading.

I doubt anything is gonna be a problem with yours, but I noticed there’s only one screw. I’ve always seen two screws keeping it together.

 

[rico]

95% of climbers are gonna do best with the shorter sleeves, and a large majority of climber set their pads way too high.. Get your pads a couple inches below the bottom of your knee joint, so the top of the pad is near upper potion of the meat of your calf muscle.....Hope that makes sense?

 

[SparkyAdmiral]

I agree I think it's only with Bucks. The only way to get it shorter would be to cut the stirrups cause the sleeves are all the way down.

Is the one screw a concern? I could slide it up another 2 inches to get the other screw in but I've never had them come loose. They have locking washers.

 

[Jonny]

It can’t do much more than just hold things together, it’s not really seeing any force or weight. Single screw is probably fine, just noticed it was a little odd. If you slide the sleeve up or down a few millimeters it should line up so you can put screws in 2 holes, but again it really can’t be a big deal.

 

[SparkyAdmiral]

It can’t do much more than just hold things together, it’s not really seeing any force or weight. Single screw is probably fine, just noticed it was a little odd. If you slide the sleeve up or down a few millimeters it should line up so you can put screws in 2 holes, but again it really can’t be a big deal.

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I would love to have both in for the obvious security but surprisingly it takes about 2 inches to get the holes to line up. (Pardon my imperial measurements) and at that point I'm getting close to my knees again. I'm 5'9" so I'm pretty average height.. maybe I just have short shins lol.

 

[evo]

Pole climbing competition climbers some times bolt the stirrup under the ball of their foot. They wear the shin cup just above their ankle and have no screws holding the shank height adjustment so it slides in and out.

As long as they can’t come apart I’d say it’s all good