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any other advantage to bent gate 11-Oct-2006 At 6:46:24 AM monty

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On 10/10/2006 cruze wrote:
>Are you talking about "gate flutter" - the gate opening momentarily when
>impacted, or talking about a rope (from say a backclip scenario) forcing
>the gate open. For the former, I think that wire gates are meant to be
>better than solid gates (less weight in the gate itself so less momentum/inertia
>to resist when impacted), for the latter perhaps bent gates are more prone
>to that but if you are backclipping on stiff draws having the right type
>of gates might be the least of your worries...
wow cruze i hadn,t even heard of gate flutter i was thinking on the same line as vertical had said. In the books they make it sound as if it is a major deal but obviously not
i thank you all for answering yet another of my silly questions (going to laugh when i look back at some of them i am sure)
warm regards simon