Question about a crotch strap

[JeffAustin]

This keeps getting more fun. wormtongue is right, though, a lot of effort for a crotch strap you really don't need unless you are scootering!! Back to the trilogy stuff...

 

[MikeS]

JeffAustin once bubbled...
This keeps getting more fun. wormtongue is right, though, a lot of effort for a crotch strap you really don't need unless you are scootering!! Back to the trilogy stuff...

If you don’t have a crotch strap with a butt ring, where to you clip your reel without becoming an Orc (A.K.A. troll)?

 

[JamieZ]

Wormtongue. Women think this is a plus but coming from a guy it doesnt sound so good, could you please just keep your boy toy names to yourself your scaring me.

 

[Spectre]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...

Jeff when you wet the webbing the lumps should flatten out.

Just played show-n-tell w/ divegary. He's got the halcyon webbing. much softer than mine.

 

[dmdalton]

scubanarc once bubbled...
Wormtongue. Women think this is a plus but coming from a guy it doesnt sound so good, could you please just keep your boy toy names to yourself your scaring me.

Now if you were well read you would know that this is not a sexual inuendo!

Gandalf the Grey

 

[O-ring]

The Lord of the Rings thing has infested the board now??? One of these days we will have to come to your aid as we hear the Horn of Gondor (DiveAlert) sounding as you are slain by orcs (strokes)..

 

[dmdalton]

MikeS once bubbled...


If you don’t have a crotch strap with a butt ring, where to you clip your reel without becoming an Orc (A.K.A. troll)?

When "The Dark Lord Sauron" was here to speak to some of us last year he said he doesn't put his on the butt d-ring any more and didn't have a good answer for where you should put it although he didn't say you should not put it there. He suggested sometimes the left waist d-ring, sometimes on stage bottle harness (temporarily), it just depends. As I'm not doing any serious penetration I use a spool clipped off in my pocket. I'll deal with it when I take cave.

Dave D

 

[JeffAustin]

You deep penetration types hang your reels off your butt rings...

I just get lazy buddies trying to hitch a free ride with mine!!

 

[SeaJay]

Holy smokes! Man, I step away from the board for one day and look what happens!

Thanks for the backup, Spectre... These guys don't get it. Apparently, they don't see the value in spending $10 to have something comfortable. Whatever, that's their call. No skin off my crotch... Er, "back."

Maybe my body physique, with thick thighs, makes me more sensitive to the crotch strap thing. Hey, y'all... If it works for you, then go for it...

Nobody said the stupid thing was magical... I just found the increased comfort worth $10 extra. It "is" funny, though. I think that a "Star Wars" reference, though, would have been more appropriate than a Lord of the Rings reference.

And yes, UP, I'll be thrilled to buy that one off of you. Of course, I don't need it until I build my sweetie's bp, which won't be for another two weeks or so... But if you'll hold on, then I'll be happy to buy...

...Or I can buy another from EE... I don't care.

Anyone want the crotchstrap that came with my Gary Hoadley plate? It's made of "soft" webbing... The kind that y'all are talking about. Looks identical to the one that Halcyon sells, but believe me, it just ain't the same. It's "thinner" 2" webbing, like a seat belt... Not quite as stiff as the regular super-stiff Halcyon 2" webbing... But no Halcyon "supersoft" crotchstrap.

UP, if they're all the same, then would you be interested in a trade? The Hoadley's bolted on the back and there is a triglide with straight D-ring both front and back...

Ain't no Halcyon, man... At least, I feel a huge difference with my "retired mountain bike racer" thighs...

Let me know if you'll trade and I can save $35.

You guys eat your heart out. I'd have to make three and a half crotchstraps to save THAT kind of money!

 

[SeaJay]

dmdalton once bubbled...


That's right, SeaJay!

<snip>

"One D-Ring to rule them all, One D-ring to find them,
One D-Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
(With appologies to J.R.R.Tolkien)

<snip> *yawn*

Lets get real guys! There is nothing special about the webbing, or the d-rings, or the stitching or the bicycle innertube.

Nobody said anything about the innertube. The stitching is very different. The D-rings are different, too... Thicker, no welds, more rust-resistant, and they're smaller, too. They don't move as easily when you try to clip off to them, and they don't stick "way out" when they're sitting perpendicular to your body.

But most of all, the crotchstrap is waaaay different than the picture you posted ( http://www.wkpp.org/images/pina_equip/backplate_top_r.jpg )

The Halcyon crotchstrap is not a 1" crotchstrap. It's a 2" one. I could go into why to dive a 2" instead of a 1", but why bother when I can be entertained watching you pick your a** all day?

Okay, your Lord of the Rings mention was funny, but you're wrong about the strap... The Halcyon one is quite different. If yours works for you, then great... I'm tellin' ya that I can't do a standard 2" crotchstrap... At least, not for long. A 1" is better, but the Halcyon 2" "supersoft" crotch strap is heads and tails above all others for me.

Dive however you want... Why would I care? Don't bust on my choices, though... And certainly don't lie and tell people they're all the same, 'cause they aren't!