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8flood8
Jul 26, 2006, 5:31 AM
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i don't care about your damn searches!! i want some new opinions, if you don't want to give it, go away, sucka
ever see anyone pre-empt a troll like that? i'm the GeeDUBYA of this darndamndarn-here website, ya dig!?
I read jung's rereview....
so -- if you are still following me...thanks! hehe
If you look at another way of holding the gri-gri, it makes dishing slack just as easy as any trango in my opinion. (if you don't know what i'm talking about look over at 8a.nu, that is where i found this method)
and as sorry as you cinch lovers may feel, it doesn't die in that drop test.
Now then, i have* used the gri gri for roped soloing, and i still may do it again, i'd rather pay the 20 bucks for a gri-gri and have the added security and deal with the weight.
Now then, i have an old only been used 5 times cinch. if anyone wants to buy it or trade it for a new-like gri gri let me know!
otherwise Mr Maldaly.... this is a public plea, please upgrade my old cinch for free because honestly i never ever ever liked the old one and i bought it because i felt it was a true innovation. (in my opinion, nice try, but i just didn't like the hard catch or the rocket release -- so i basically wasted my money because i thought your idea was cool!) If you would hookabrothaup i would more than happily test it and see if i like the new one better (there by recommending to my friends)
anyway.. just a shot in the dark.
so what do you say... or naysay ??? is the new trango that good or what?
**edit**
added a poll and fixed some commas
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fracture
Jul 26, 2006, 3:52 PM
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Carlos: my brain hurts now. :P
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j_ung
Jul 26, 2006, 4:06 PM
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I can't speak for Mal and Trango, but if I could I might say something like, "Nice try." :P
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slacklinejoe
Jul 26, 2006, 9:54 PM
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Oooh, oooh if that works then how about I make a public plea that you send me your cinch for free?
Seriously though, if you don't dig the gear that's what eBay was made for. I haven't heard any comments on the new cinch that differ from Jung's write up. If you really want a new cinch drop the cash down for it, but don't post up the same thing when the titanium cinch comes out (that's what I'm waiting for myself).
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tisakson
Jul 26, 2006, 10:14 PM
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I heard through the climbing grapevine that a gal fell about 40 feet at a local crag here while leading on a Trango Cinch. She fell at the top and the cinch failed to stop her and she fell to the ground, open-wound fracture on her leg, but was concious and didn't break her neck. Anyway, don't know what happened but heard it was the Cinch.
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8flood8
Jul 26, 2006, 10:32 PM
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well... i'd like to hear more than hearsay..
yah i know...
honestly i was relieving a little ADD by posting on rc.com as a study break...
it was a sad public plea... but hey man... ... uh... you wanna buy my old cinch?! eheheheh
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shortys
Jul 26, 2006, 10:38 PM
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tisakson
Make sure you have all the facts before you lay blame.
Shes a close friend.
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waltersiebert
Jun 2, 2008, 11:08 PM
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Does anybody know here how to contact trango? We had some failures of the cinch (while used according to the manual) and we sent a question to trango (custserv@trango.com) but they dont answer.
Thank you very much
Walter
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reno
Jun 2, 2008, 11:44 PM
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waltersiebert wrote: Does anybody know here how to contact trango? We had some failures of the cinch (while used according to the manual) and we sent a question to trango (custserv@trango.com) but they dont answer. Thank you very much Walter
Send a PM to Malcolm Daly here on RC.com. His user name is maldaly, and his profile is here:
http://www.rockclimbing.com/...gi?username=maldaly;
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dudemanbu
Jun 3, 2008, 12:45 AM
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waltersiebert wrote: Does anybody know here how to contact trango? We had some failures of the cinch (while used according to the manual) and we sent a question to trango (custserv@trango.com) but they dont answer. Thank you very much Walter
Did you have your hand on the brake line? If not, it was you that failed, not the cinch.
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maldaly
Jun 3, 2008, 1:06 AM
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Walter,
I want to hear about your Cinch "failures". Please PM me here, email me at mdaly@trango.com or call me at 303/909-6067.
Malcolm Daly, Founder
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crackers
Jun 3, 2008, 12:32 PM
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maldaly wrote: Please PM me here, email me at mdaly@trango.com or call me at 303/909-6067. Malcolm Daly, Founder
Customer service exemplar anybody?
I used a cinch for the first time about two weeks ago, and I have to say I thought it was great. It fed on my nano rope really well, locked up very nicely, and fed slack easily. After years of avoiding trying it, I've found a new piece of gear I really want. Good work Mal!
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snowboardercolo
Jun 3, 2008, 1:52 PM
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I have one and I really like it. I think if you watch the video that Mal stars in you will understand it a lot easier.
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billcoe_
Jun 3, 2008, 4:41 PM
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maldaly wrote: Walter, I want to hear about your Cinch "failures". ...... Malcolm Daly, Founder
Sorry - no failures, or even seen or heard of any outside of the fella above. Although I own the Edelrid Eddy, the Faders Sum and use my buddies Gri Gri all the time, the Cinch is my prefered device. I was cranked the other day when I couldn't find it (found it later in the bottom of a pile of gear), as it meant I would be forced to use one of the others.
I just want to say that if you are giving out free Cinches for any reason, (the new version, not the old which doesn't function as well) then consider me at the head of that line:-)
BTW, on a couple of occasions, while rapping a single line, it will refuse to budge till I take the weight off and slide it down a bit. I have noted that it has only happened on the same ancient, little fluffed, very dirty/caked with mud full sized old school 11mil Piece of crap rope. This rope was retired and given to a buddy like 6-7 years ago and he still uses it anyway for cleaning projects.
The Sum does the same thing on the same rope.
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no_email_entered
Jun 3, 2008, 5:16 PM
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yeh, i say BS or bad belayer or threaded wrong---
i was just jugging and single-line rapping with my cinch yesterday and its still da bomb. the redirect through a biner on ur leg loop makes the release like butter. butter i tell ya!!!
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WVUCLMBR
Jun 3, 2008, 5:20 PM
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I think I should warn all of you that my wife checks her rc.com account about once a month, and that she searches for Cinch threads. Then she hunts down anyone who says bad things about her Cinch and ninja's them. It's not pretty.
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waltersiebert
Jun 4, 2008, 8:54 PM
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Thank you all, I contacted Malcolm directly and I sent him the information.
Best regards,
Walter
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reno
Jun 4, 2008, 11:49 PM
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crackers wrote: maldaly wrote: Please PM me here, email me at mdaly@trango.com or call me at 303/909-6067. Malcolm Daly, Founder Customer service exemplar anybody?
Exemplar for most companies.... standard operating procedure for Malcolm and the gang at Trango.
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Alpine07
Jun 8, 2008, 3:18 AM
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WVUCLMBR wrote: I think I should warn all of you that my wife checks her rc.com account about once a month, and that she searches for Cinch threads. Then she hunts down anyone who says bad things about her Cinch and ninja's them. It's not pretty.
I can't say that I have ever seen anyone "Ninja'd." Demonstration anyone?
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GeneralBenson
Jun 10, 2008, 2:21 PM
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slacklinejoe wrote: Alpine07 wrote: I can't say that I have ever seen anyone "Ninja'd." Demonstration anyone?
I now know how I want to die.
"Tenchumaru's first arrow severed Haller's vocal cords, silencing him without hitting any of the major arteries or veins in the neck and without penetrating deeply enough to touch the spinal column," Skokie Police Department ballistics expert Ken Draper said. "An arrow was then fired into each of the seven henzoitoichi, or major nerve clusters, of Haller's body. Though the hits themselves were not fatal, the excruciating pain killed Haller within 10 seconds."
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tisakson
Jun 28, 2008, 3:51 PM
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Did I say I had "all the facts"? I think I made it clear that it was "heresay". Also, I think it would be nice to blame the device and not your climbing partner...geesh.
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billcoe_
Jun 29, 2008, 3:01 AM
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tisakson wrote: Did I say I had "all the facts"? I think I made it clear that it was "heresay". Also, I think it would be nice to blame the device and not your climbing partner...geesh.
Oh, well as long as any old bullshit heard second hand is acceptable, this one is much better. I "heard today:" that the Aliens which folks keep seeing, the lil grey ones with the big heads, is but one species of Alien on this planet. The "Other' Aliens, the big green ones, eats the first kind.
There ya go.
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reno
Jun 29, 2008, 4:40 AM
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tisakson wrote: Also, I think it would be nice to blame the device and not your climbing partner...geesh.
Actually, no, it wouldn't be nice. If the partner is to blame, it'd be nice to blame the partner than the device. Dishonesty serves no purpose.
People dropped while belayed with a Gri-Gri, Cinch, ATC, or Munter Hitch are dropped because the belayer failed to do his job. The device is not at fault (obviously, total mechanical failure, ala Alien cams, is a different issue.)
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