Nope. That's a Shoei X Eleven and it's for my Yamaha R1. Brain buckets may be fine for climbers and cyclist, but they be next to useless for the track.
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Nope. That's a Shoei X Eleven and it's for my Yamaha R1. Brain buckets may be fine for climbers and cyclist, but they be next to useless for the track. Climbing isn't my only hobby.
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Petzl Shunt- it’s probably my fault here, but I couldn’t make one smooth rappel- either too fast, either too bouncy plus it weighs like a truck.

Brain buckets may be fine for climbers and cyclist, but they be next to useless for the track.

No, it's probably the fault of the shunt for NOT BEING A RAPPEL DEVICE.

Yes, the Shunt is one of the least understood and appreciated pieces of gear out there. It is possibly the BEST piece of gear on earth for rapping with loads or doing vertical work with loads. BUT, you have to know how to use one.

The best way I've found to use them is to put it directly on your belay loop with a locker and then put your rappel device above it on the belay loop, but at the end of either two, unextended and opposed trad draws or a single draw with lockers (one or the other of those goes to the locker on your belay device). Once you have that configuration setup then hang your load or haul bag from the belay device locker - not your belay loop or any other attachment on your person. Make sure you extend the load down somehow so that it [securley] hangs with the top of it about mid-thigh level.

Manage and operate the rappel with the Shunt alone - just completely ignore the actual device you are rappelling on. Do that and rappels with 120 lb. loads are effortless, smooth as silk, and stopping to work and restarting require no energy at all.

Shunts friggin' rule.

...but the post I quoted made it sound like he was using it itself as a rap device instead of as a backup.

disagree 100%. motorcycle helmets are not just for determining closed or open casket funerals. doesn't matter if it's track or not. show me stats to prove otherwise.

your staged far away visionary look pic is cracking me up. unbelievable. good bike, though. i used to have a 97 yzf100r. precursor to the 98 r1. one of the best handling bikes i've ever ridden.

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-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.

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.

I only carry them in the winter, and a pink one in the alpine.

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.

Yes, the Shunt is one of the least understood and appreciated pieces of gear out there. It is possibly the BEST piece of gear on earth for rapping with loads or doing vertical work with loads. BUT, you have to know how to use one.

The best way I've found to use them is to put it directly on your belay loop with a locker and then put your rappel device above it on the belay loop, but at the end of either two, unextended and opposed trad draws or a single draw with lockers(one or the other of those goes to the locker on your belay device). Once you have that configuration setup then hang your load or haul bag from the belay device locker - not your belay loop or any other attachment on your person. Make sure you extend the load down somehow so that it [securley] hangs with the top of it about mid-thigh level.

Manage and operate the rappel with the Shunt alone - just completely ignore the actual device you are rappelling on. Do that and rappels with 120 lb. loads are effortless, smooth as silk, and stopping to work and restarting require no energy at all.

Shunts friggin' rule.