Advantages: kevlar reinforced belt, reflective sidewalls, design, on or off road suitable Disadvantages: price is quite high but quality, safety and peace in mind costs
...fabric, additionally reinforced with Kevlar.
- Patented lightweight sidewall protection
- A coarse polyamide fabric that is tear resistant thanks to a special treatment process, protecting the tyre casing from cuts & slashes
- Highly resistant to pinches and cuts from debris, thorns and glass
- The Safety System keeps the tyre lightweight and flexible. It adapts to the rolling motion and keeps the rolling resistance low
Some Continental tyres like Travel Contact have special tread design called "Endless Edge". Specially designed and shaped knobs with five edges and corners for better off camber grip or more precise steering.
Altogether
They are really good, heave duty slick tyres to be used on and of road (on road mostly). For harder terrain Continental offers other products. This One is more for commuters who have to or like...
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...Travel boots are worn for when the horse is in transit. They are used to protect the lower leg. Some people use bandages over gamgee, some people use velcro fastening travel boots and some people don`t bother. Boots can make some horses panic, so some do travel better without them. Horses can become unbalanced in transit though so it is probably sensible to protect them against cuts or injury.
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It is important to plan before transporting your horse. Horses can become reluctant, or near on impossible to load if they are upset by something. If you treat loading them in a calm manner from the start, then hopefully the experience will not be a bad one. Make sure that everything is ready prior to loading your horse, because you don`t want to make them fed up standing in the trailer or lorry...
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Advantages: Cheap, relativly light Disadvantages: Leash comes off
...Hi,
Having doing hillwalking and low grade rock climbing for a number of years i though i would take the plunge into winter walking. Last year i bought myself a pair of Grivel G10 crampons and the above axe.
The axe is 60cm in length with a wrist lensh on the shaft. The axe head is study and joined to shaft with an eyelet rivet, the same as most axes of this type. The shaft of the axe sounds hollow giving it it's light weight. This does not mean that it is weak, as I used it once as as a hanhold, jaming the axe horizontal across the top of two boulders and hauling myself up on it, the shaft did not bend and their is no sign of cracking.
The shaft appears to have a protective coating on it that also allows for extera grip by having loads of small raised bubbles on it.
The head of the axe, is quit tough, and has not been...
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