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Twitter Ropes? 30-Jun-2016 At 5:47:19 PM Martym

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On 29/06/2016 Ariel wrote:
>To the best of my knowledge, Trestec are a big manufacturer whose stuff
>then gets rebranded and sold by other companies. I'm pretty sure they used
>to make ropes for Beal, and maybe Petzl for a while too.
>
>I've got their 9.9 80m and given it a good thrashing over the last 3 years.
>Despite heaps of sports climbing I've only had to cut a little bit of it
>off, though it's probably due for retirement. I've also got their 8.5 doubles
>and no issues so far, though only had them for a few months.
>
>What I've found with their ropes is that the sheathes fuzz up really quickly.
>Way quicker than mates' ropes that I've used. Not ratty old climbing gym
>type fuzzy rope, but just enough that they're clearly not new. Work just
>fine though, and the core seems plenty durable for all the abuse my sports
>climbing rope has been through.

Cheers - so they are ok then?

The fuzziness doesn't sound promising - I've got some Mammut Genesis to replace - bought in around 2008 - not a bit of fuzz.