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#350 Re: Strings
February 10, 2024, 11:34:25 pm
That would fall well into the realms of marginal gains for me! Never even considered rope weight.

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#351 Re: Strings
February 11, 2024, 07:38:53 am
That would fall well into the realms of marginal gains for me! Never even considered rope weight.

If you weighted 53 kg, were excessively weak for your grade, and liked to climb 50 m pitches with thin vertical cruxes just below the chains you would! (TBH, I think that drag is often a bigger factor and drag seems to increase with diameter)

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#352 Re: Strings
February 11, 2024, 09:30:36 am
Honestly it’s bizarre to me that nobody is looking at Edelrid ropes. By far the best on the market imo.

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#353 Re: Strings
February 11, 2024, 11:50:24 am
My experience of Edlerid ropes are they coil around everything and anything. One of my half ropes was Edlerid and it was terrifying to use in the Verdon as the smallest of juniper roots was a perfect hook in its eyes.

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#354 Re: Strings
February 11, 2024, 01:08:10 pm
That would fall well into the realms of marginal gains for me! Never even considered rope weight.

you can not be serious! have you never done a 45meter pitch before? its horrendous pulling against the weight of a heavy rope.  :blink:

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#355 Re: Strings
February 11, 2024, 01:14:06 pm
Of course I have, but can genuinely say I didn't think the rope I was using was the issue. I've never owned a super skinny one as I always buy the cheapest I can find so maybe one day I will have my mind blown!

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#356 Re: Strings
February 11, 2024, 10:50:48 pm
Honestly it’s bizarre to me that nobody is looking at Edelrid ropes. By far the best on the market imo.

They’re what I use, a pair of Mammut Genesis half ropes excepted, cause they’re tough as old boots.

 

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