Black totem craze?

Tyler Shopshire wrote: Currently available at nextAdventure.net as well.

3 black left as of 9:40am PST 

Twice today it went out of stock while I was checking out, CURSES!

Mine went through on Backcountry but now they just emailed me that they are out of stock...I do have 1 at least but I have been trying to get a second one for awhile now. 

Shit second time this month I've missed getting a black by a few hours ><  This is driving me bonkers...

Jake Jones wrote: Greedy bastard.

https://youtu.be/rX7wtNOkuHo 

I have brand new 2 black totems for sale.  Best offers?

Just got two in the mail!!!

Now all I need is pink tricam, just pink.

Caleb Schwarz wrote:

WTF, you got a sticker to. They didn't send me a sticker.

Dunder . wrote:

WTF, you got a sticker to. They didn't send me a sticker.

They most likely assumed that paying $81 shipped for a black totem wasn't a good enough deal, so they sweetened it with dope ass swag.

Caleb Schwarz wrote:

They most likely assumed that paying $81 shipped for a black totem wasn't a good enough deal, so they sweetened it with dope ass swag.

backcountrygear is gonna receive a strongly worded email. 

Briggs Lazalde wrote: We climbed twin crack and classic crack while we were there and I didn't realize going in that twin cracks were mostly flaring. When I lead that there was no way I woulda placed a dragon without it popping except for a couple deeper thinner placements, yet the totems concreted themselves into flaring horizontal. 

I know of two people who have decked on twin crack because they pulled C4s in that shitty flare, just in case anyone thinks this was an exaggeration. 

For me it's the narrow head with 4 lobes that does the job. The head width helps them wiggle into more places than a C4 would. My only gripes are that the springs don't feel like they have much resistance so I'm hesitant to place them in more tipped out situations, and the "flattening" of the lobes makes it easier to place them overcammed and get stuck.

hurry up.... as of 3:48 est there where 2 blacks at backcountry.com ...............but, i bought 1 

Ted.kemble wrote: hurry up.... as of 3:48 est there where 2 blacks at backcountry.com ...............but, i bought 1 

8 min later and they are already gone.......fuck

Greg Gavin wrote: For me it's the narrow head with 4 lobes that does the job. The head width helps them wiggle into more places than a C4 would. My only gripes are that the springs don't feel like they have much resistance so I'm hesitant to place them in more tipped out situations, and the "flattening" of the lobes makes it easier to place them overcammed and get stuck.

My experience is the exact opposite....it seems to me the springs are stronger for their size than BD cams and that flattening on the back of the lobes has made it much harder to get a stuck cam.  Then again I rarely place anything that's tipped or overcammed....

Christopher Smith wrote:

My experience is the exact opposite....it seems to me the springs are stronger for their size than BD cams and that flattening on the back of the lobes has made it much harder to get a stuck cam.  Then again I rarely place anything that's tipped or overcammed....

+1

I had to delete my comment because he posted the exact same thing right before me. I actually have found that tipped out placements and the inability to get them overcammed and stuck are two of their biggest strengths.

I've found my black likes to get stuck more than the other sizes because the wire-collar-thingy is almost the same size as the closed lobes. Just takes a bit of wiggling to unsnag from granite crystals but black seems like the limit of how small totems can go with the current design. Think they can shift to a TCU style with two less wires to have a smaller collar and sell $300 each for a smaller size?

Finally managed to snag a black totem that was in stock.  Came out to $100 USD with international shipping.