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petsfed
Nov 18, 2009, 9:13 PM
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hafilax wrote: petsfed wrote: quietpartner wrote: All you tricam-hating pussies need to get off your lazy asses and learn how to use them. Dey's da bomb! All you tricam-loving pussies need to get off your lazy asses and learn how to climb harder than 5.7. Dey's da etc. I believe that souprasoup put this myth to rest above.
I will readily concede that there are certain 5.10 and harder routes that simply will not go without a tricam.
These routes, of course, have never been climbed by the cult of the tricam.
I've yet to see a "tricam only" placement that couldn't have been protected faster with a TCU or alien for the same quality of protection. I know how to set them, I even know how to clean tricams that have been fallen on. I find nothing wrong with the device as such. Just the slack-jawed, glassy-eyed bumblies who hold their pink tricams with pride as if knowing how to operate one is some sort of status symbol.
I actually hate my #7 tricam because of its total instability in most every place I've attempted to use it as protection. I climb a lot of that size, so compared to the 3 cams and one big bro I have of equivalent girth, I really do hate it. But I bit my tongue because I didn't want to incur the wraith of the Esoteric Order of the Pink & Red.
(This post was edited by petsfed on Nov 18, 2009, 9:13 PM)
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