Life of a gym rope

I have been using my gym rope for over year now, and am wondering if its time to retire it. It's a 10.2, and it's taken a fare amount of gym falls. The sheath is completely intact, but it's slipping from the core. Should I retire it and get a new one, or is it still good for a bit?

atritt wrote:I have been using my gym rope for over year now, and am wondering if its time to retire it. It's a 10.2, and it's taken a fare amount of gym falls. The sheath is completely intact, but it's slipping from the core. Should I retire it and get a new one, or is it still good for a bit?

Any soft or flat spots when you run it through your fingers? If not, I'd not worry about it.

Usually two options before retiring it:

1. Cut off the ends, which take most of the abuse (I tend to cut about 15' off each end)

or

2. Cut the rope into multiple pieces and retire them as needed. Gym walls rarely exceed 40' are typically maybe 35'ish....which means ~3 gym ropes out of each normal rope.

Life of a gym rope:

"I woke up this morning and stretched a bit. It was a crazy night hanging around with the other ropes. Some of those guys are really twisted!

I really thought I could get it on with that cute little bi pattern hanging on the next wall. Tried my best lines but she just kept stringing me along. Finally I thought I just go for it with: "Hey, c'mon! Let's get kinky". But she said: "I'm a frayed knot" and that just left me fit to be tied"

Well done wivanoff.

Will S wrote:Any soft or flat spots when you run it through your fingers?

The ropes at my local gym are used until you can hardly belay with them due to core/sheath separation. Flat spots? Sure! Dozens of them. Irregularities in the core? Got them too, so bad that it feels like a desert washboard road when lowering your partner. I'd like to coin a new phrase for the sheath - shag sheath. Yup, good ole' shag sheath, swollen to all hell so it looks and feels like a road-kill 12-13mm line...

I sure wish my gym would cycle out their ropes more often, it drives me nuts.