Does anyone else climb with a RopeX?

Where Luxury Meets Climbing:

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Wow I hope you aren't one of the devs on this because this is a woefully dumb product. Not only does this look like it makes flaking a rope harder than even flaking from a tangle, but it seems like this is designed to make it impossible to simultaneously carry a crag bag. Innovation means something is new, not that it's a good idea.

Elijah Benson wrote:

Wow I hope you aren't one of the devs on this because this is a woefully dumb product. Not only does this look like it makes flaking a rope harder than even flaking from a tangle, but it seems like this is designed to make it impossible to simultaneously carry a crag bag. Innovation means something is new, not that it's a good idea.

But you can't air keytar on your regularly coiled rope....

DUMB AF

Perhaps this is the next Da Brim? I must point out this masterful piece of marketing copy from the website:

Jackson first started thinking about making the RopeX Coil Device while on a rappelling date when he pulled out a rope that had been in the back of his truck for too long and had gotten very tangled. He spent nearly 30 minutes fraying it out and untangling it!

'It only takes about a minute to coil a 70 meter rope and about the same amount on time to fray it out!"

"designed to make coiling, fraying, and carrying your ropes quick, "

You should avoid any products that will FRAY your rope out in a minute.

It's possible that whoever taught him about flaking out a rope had a full mouth of peanut butter.

What a truly ingenious device our community has been gifted with. Surely this is in the running alongside Friends and sticky rubber as the greatest breakthrough invention in climbing technology.  

This is up there with that stupid ‘firefly quickdraw retriever.” 

Ah yes, the luxury of having a 3' piece of wood repeatedly hit you in the hip while every at the crag roasts you...

Elijah Benson wrote:

Wow I hope you aren't one of the devs on this because this is a woefully dumb product. Not only does this look like it makes flaking a rope harder than even flaking from a tangle, but it seems like this is designed to make it impossible to simultaneously carry a crag bag. Innovation means something is new, not that it's a good idea.

You must be new here.

C'mon, It's for alpine climbers not the crag. Say goodbye to marmots chewing through the rap station after you run them off with this thing

I always climb with mine, so luxurious. Love carrying my rope with a piece of wood heavier and larger than the actual rope itself. 

RopeX II

What a time to be alive

Also worth mentioning that this will coil your rope, not flake it, making it twisty af

Erik J wrote:

Also worth mentioning that this will coil your rope, not flake it, making it twisty af

That’s the first thing I thought when I saw it, it will create more kinks just from the way you uncoil it.  There is a way to uncoil it off that thing without causing twists but that would be super time consuming unless there was a swivel handle on the side and you could just pull the rope off.   This is the reason rope bags exist, never had issues with knots in my rope using a rope bag.

Ryan Franz wrote:

It's possible that whoever taught him about flaking out a rope had a full mouth of peanut butter.

This made me spit out my coffee…I’m dying!

Unless I’m missing something in the photos, this is a frame you wrap your rope around like a mountaineer coil, not a butterfly coil. If you store your rope like this it’ll become a twisty tangled mess far more often. Unless “fraying out the rope” is a special technique that detwists it?

Looks really fun to carry on long approaches too.