camhead
Oct 21, 2010, 1:41 PM
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spikeddem wrote: rainman0915 wrote:  talk about unnecessarily over complicating a design An essentially regular, non-locking, bent gate biner just got nominated as the most useless piece of climbing gear. haha.
Actually, wait until that thing gets worn down one-third of the way by the rope. You'll find that it is not quite so "regular." I pulled a half dozen of these off of some routes at the Red a few weeks back. The cross section of the biner wears down to a knife edge way easier than normal biners.
(edited to fix image tag, and to say that JT GU'd me.)
(This post was edited by camhead on Oct 21, 2010, 1:47 PM)
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