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Really small gear 5-Aug-2010 At 8:40:37 PM Mike Bee

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On 5/08/2010 One Day Hero wrote:
>Man, that's a pretty big slap in the face to Roland. He's got mad Eastern
>Euro craftsman skills, has been handmaking the things himself for over
>30yrs, provides a great product with no marketing and no bullshit, and
>runs it from home in melbourne.

No arguments about them. They're a great product, and I have a set of them on my rack. No disrespect to Roland was intended.

>Instead, you'd rather support a bunch of smooth talking welshys who ripped
>off RP design, slapped together a bunch of marketing spray and hired an
>IT fcuk to make a pretty website.....I reckon you're unaustralian!

Fair shake of the sauce bottle mate! :P
I said nothing bad about RPs, as I said, I actually climb with them (not with IMPs). Big kudos goes to Roland for creating such a perfect micronut that had truly stood the test of time. But Roland simply doesn't have the rescources to test enough of his product to attain a 3-sigma rating. All I said was that DMM have better testing and quality control procedures in place as makes sense given they're a relatively large company, rather than a single guy making them in his home.

I'm sure this has been posted before, but if anyone wants any further reading on micronuts, check out: http://www.rockclimbingcompany.co.uk/Technical-Information/Micro-Nuts.html