Grivel The Nose

Advantages: Nice when planing.
Disadvantages: Nose breaks off too easily & BIC customer relations are very poor.

...I am an intermediate windsurfer who is hoping, within the next 12 months to make the leap from boards that float me to sinkers. I bought a Techno 273 in August 2000 and I have been blessed with good winds since then. I have been sailing it with a 6.8 BIC Logic freeride sail and a 5.5 Tushingham Storm sail in winds up to force 5. It's an OK board as soon as you get it planing, its responsive and you can throw it into aggressive moves and it is quite forgiving. In winds that are not strong enough to get the board planing it is slow, it would be better to find a board with more volume for these conditions. My major problem, with this otherwise pretty good board, is that the nose on mine has split and it has cost me £90 ($140 approx) to get it fixed. I thought that it was my fault as a progressing windsurfer going out in stronger... Read review

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Advantages: anti bailling plates, easily adjusted
Disadvantages: not very aggressive teeth

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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... Read review

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