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Record 1 1996-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

Wild Country Flexible Friends: The ultimate pro for horizontal placements, pockets and small cracks. The 5 mm flexible stainless steel cable stem bends over edges.

OBS

Many active camming chocks have flexible cable stems, rather than solid stems. Flexible stems reduce leveraging problems. They also allow you to place your active cam into a horizontal crack without worrying that the stem will break when loaded over the crack's edge ... flexible stems are weaker than solid stems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
CONT

C'est un coinceur mécanique flexible destiné aux fissures verticales et horizontales.

CONT

Coinceur mécanique à 4 cames mobiles montées sur monocâble [...] Grâce à leur grande flexibilité, les flexifriends peuvent être placés horizontalement, verticalement ou même diagonalement [...]

Spanish

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