Bare Trilam HD Tech - any opinions ?

[gorcio]

So far, everyone I talked to about it, could only say ahs and ohs (apart from people using DUI suits). Is there any reason You wouldn't recommend it ? Or would You just say - go for it ?

 

[ClayJar]

I've got its little brother, and I'm perfectly content, so I don't imagine you'd go very wrong with it. :biggrin:

 

[crlavoie]

My self and my 3 buddies all have XCD2's and they have been excellent. I know several others that have the HD Trilams and they have had equally good experiences.

 

[r2t]

I think it's a great suit for the price.

 

[medic001918]

My wife dives one of those suits and likes it. I have an XCD2 that I love. We haven't had any issues with either of our suits. We saved a considerable amount of money over what we were quoted for DUI suits as well.

Shane

 

[texdiveguy]

I dive a BARE neo dry suit myself...but have several dive buddies that use the suit you asked about....they are really good quality and functional....GO FOR IT!

 

[RJP]

I loved mine, almost as much as the guy I sold it to when I bought my DUI TLS-350.

 

[sunapeebob]

I bought one this past fall. My son has the XCD2. I have big forearms and interestingly, the Trilam was the only dry suit I could find that I could wear an undergarment on and put the sleeves on. I am clautrophobic, but bought the front zip. I like the tensioned waist. It makes for a more streamlined look and feel. It also dries fairly quickly, unlike the crushed neoprene.

 

[medic001918]

My crushed neoprene dries overnight. I simply hang it up in a hanger upside down after rinsing and it's dry by morning.

Shane

 

[ClayJar]

It also dries fairly quickly, unlike the crushed neoprene.

My crushed neoprene dries overnight. I simply hang it up in a hanger upside down after rinsing and it's dry by morning.

And here we see two different concepts of "quickly".

To me, my Bare Trilam ATR Light dries "quickly" -- if it's not raining, it's dry in a matter of minutes. Anything that takes longer than a surface interval (and a short one at that) to dry is nowhere near what I consider "quickly".

On the other hand, compared to my neoprene wetsuit boots, overnight would certainly be "more quickly", but to me, that would be comparing "glacially slow" to "slow as a turtle". The turtle is blazingly fast if you measure it with your glacier-tracking surveyors tools, but you don't need a radar gun to measure it -- a ruler and a stopwatch would work.