Does anyone else climb with a RopeX?

on the one hand, I feel a little bad about how this thread has developed

on the other hand and on both feet, if you're going to combine the phrases "Alpine Climbers," "Where Luxury Meets Climbing," "rappelling date," and "fraying it out" in an attempt to market a four-foot wooden cord reel to a bunch of people who have never needed any variety of cord reel, you're gonna get what you're gonna get

also I lied in the first line

This is definitely someone's college project. 

Maybe the Innovators think they need this because their rope is always twisted...because they're using this product and it's twisting their rope

30 bucks isn't a bad price though. Even some of you thugs can afford that.

nathan we know you're not involved, just move the thread to Injuries and Accidents already

that guy named seb wrote:

This is definitely someone's college project. 

You may be right. They're still on a shopify subsomain, for example. 

Then again, I can't imagine the professors making them them spend money on a Facebook Sponsored Post (how I saw this in the first place.)

Em Cos wrote:

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. 

The Butterfly version is coming soon. It will be in backpack form. 

We're calling it the HonnCoil.

Strings Attached wrote:

RopeX II

RopeX III Add an electric motor and cameras with AI so it can autonomously follow you in the alpine. Of course include built-in Bluetooth speakers and solar panels to be environmentally friendly.   

Nathan Doyle wrote:

You may be right. They're still on a shopify subsomain, for example. 

Then again, I can't imagine the professors making them them spend money on a Facebook Sponsored Post (how I saw this in the first place.)

It's a simple example of successfully using modern advertising platforms, the fact this made it on hear shows they were quite successful, doesn't matter if the product is garbage, they got our attention, that's a success. 

Such a great idea!

I climb with twin ropes so I'm going to buy two!

J W wrote:

Selling products is the metric for success in this context. Did you buy one? Me neither.

No college project actually expects the item to be any good therefore it won't ever sell. Businesses want to sell, if its a college proj then the goal is probably to demonstrate their ability to market a product and build interest. 

If the project was anything to do with design on the other hand, they get a big F. 

Nathan Doyle wrote:

The Butterfly version is coming soon. It will be in backpack form. 

We're calling it the HonnCoil.

Why not call it the CaldwellCoil? I thought Alex doesn't use ropes

I have no gotographs capable of expressing the utter asininity of this idea.

“Made by climbers for climbers”… like Bear Grylls.

And the web link is alpine-climbers.shopify…. So this is made for alpine climbers, folks.

Lol I thought someone was messing around on another thread, saying they regret buying a rope bag because they found ropex. 

But there's also a product called ropex that is supposed to increase male sperm count and make you have more voluminous ejaculations. 

I want two little ones for my cordelettes.

"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!"

If i had a dime for every time my rope tangles up my rapping dates....last time the roast got cold by the time we finally flaked out and rapped down to it. 

Can they also design one of these so I can screw my bolt-on-rock holds to it to carry to the crag?

Andrew Rice wrote:

Can they also design one of these so I can screw my bolt-on-rock holds to it to carry to the crag?

Then it could be sold in the Training, and Rope Bag section.

I identify as a Christian, but this product has me questioning my belief in intelligent design.