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Ukrainian cams? 27-Mar-2010 At 3:35:44 PM cadmus
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I bookmarked this thread some time ago and have been following it on and off.
I think the anecdotal BD testing article is silly for some of the reasons already mentioned. The gear could have been made an by east european company, there are others. It was old gear some guy retired long ago. There was no replication, no way to calculate variance… It was silly and clearly just for fun unless BD was trying to decrease competition, I highly doubt that.

Since 2008 I have been sending emails to the gear4rocks staff every 6 months or so asking about CE/UIAA endorsement. Several months ago they got CE certification on their first product line (without any redesigns needed). They claim on the website that they will be working on other product lines, I am guessing this is not a cheap process for them and that is the likely limiting factor. I can not fault them for that.

The website is here:
http://gear4rocks.com/
The “Links” cams are the ones that are CE certified.
The Set of 5 is here:
http://shop.gear4rocks.com/sets-of-cams/rock-climbing-links-cams-set-of-five-/prod_27.html
And the individual ones are here:
http://shop.gear4rocks.com/links-cams/cat_7.html

They are also on ebay.
http://stores.ebay.com/gear4rocks

I too was weary, but having spoke(email) with them often since this thread started, having translated a lot of the CE and Ukrainian testing certs/standards/forms... I ordered a set. I will post here after they arrive to give my impression.
best of luck,

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