Old school attache has returned! (sort of)

Save your $75 for the old attache folks, Petzl is bringing back the round basket attache in 2024, rejoice!  Hopefully its action is as nice as the old ones...

Hey Metolius, are you seeing this? Bring back the thumb loops!

Well there goes my plan to hang on to my two old ones and sell them for $200…

I’ll believe the hype it when I use it. One nice thing about the old Attaché with the full round stock profile is you can use the spine when belaying followers on a plaquette and make it an even smoother belay. Especially nice when using a GiGi or Ovo plate to belay. The round basket of the re-released Attaché looks sweet, but the spine is still an I-beam construction.

Matt Z wrote:

I’ll believe the hype it when I use it. One nice thing about the old Attaché with the full round stock profile is you can use the spine when belaying followers on a plaquette and make it an even smoother belay. Especially nice when using a GiGi or Ovo plate to belay. The round basket of the re-released Attaché looks sweet, but the spine is still an I-beam construction.

This is my concern as well. When you set up a gigi the ropes rest on the spine of the carabiner. There's still a place for fully round Attaches, but I'm definitely going to pick up some new-school ones. The new mini pear from Petzl looks good, too! Rep said it's one gram lighter than an SM'd.

Yeah... Spine was where its at. Full round stock you get a lot of material to use in the normal basket AND spine.

Not surprised they just did the same thing as BD and many other brands, brands that don't have a GiGi/Ovo equivalent.

Metolius is supposed to be coming out with a twist lock element, hopefully that is still fully round stock. Otherwise Salewa, Sterling Rope, Rock Exotica, and a few other brands do have full round stock offerings. Edit: its not fully round stock either...

Just buy the Rock Exotica Pirate and you're good

Please delete this post until after I've bothered to sell the ones I'm sitting on.  TYIA.

This seems like the best of both worlds. I like the I-beam attaches for their low weight. But they wear out quickly from rappelling/lowering.

I'm curious if they'll match the same 57g weight as the current ones.

It should work fine when belaying a follower in auto-block mode to just flip the biner so that you're using the bottom part of the biner to belay; no need to actually use the spine of the carabiner.

They should have given it a new name. It is NOT an attache.

I dont understand the attache hype. We used to use them to belay in a gym I worked on and they got stuck in the locked position frequently.

Using them as the rope bearing carabiner with a device in guide mode, the carabiner is never stressed in the long axis, no weight on the gate. Just the spine is stressed.

I F wrote:

I dont understand the attache hype. We used to use them to belay in a gym I worked on and they got stuck in the locked position frequently.

The old design never got stuck, that’s one place where the hype came from, never got stuck and had super smooth feel, the barrel was different and much better,  

Heywood L wrote:

The old design never got stuck, that’s one place where the hype came from, never got stuck and had super smooth feel, the barrel was different and much better,  

Not at all my experience but I guess we might have gotten an off batch.

Petzl really nailed the first redesign, I bet this one will be even better. I'm positive it will crash the market for original attaches, and not be at all maligned by vintage attache enthusiasts.  

I mean, we all remember how the Z4 utterly destroyed demand for the C3... Right? Right???  And Thumbloop master cams, I mean, who uses those antiques anymore?