Maybe I'm late to this, but I just got my new .25 black tricam today. The whites ones were too small and scary (3KN in camming mode) for me! It's so itty bitty and cute!

Aya - Are they in stock at EMS downtown? I was at R&S this weekend and no black available. I did get the white....and agree. It's now the smallest, least beefy piece of gear I own. But I couldn't say no to the little fella once I saw him! I will definitely use it but I sure don't think I'll be interested in falling directly onto it!

Yes. When I left at 3 today, there were 4 white ones and 2 black ones. If there are any there tomorrow morning, I'll put one aside for you, if you want to give a call or come in and pick it up.

I am really excited to get my first new mini-tricam this year!

I can't wait for all these silly TCL's (tri-cam lovers) to set the new micro ones and find out that they are even tougher to clean than the pink...

And based on how many pinks I've bootyed or climbed right on past... I'm guessing there's going to be quite a bonanza of the mini-tricams out there!

So thanks in advance!

I stopped getting suckered into yanking out fixed tri-cams years ago....I mean does someone really need 6 pink ones?

Personal Observation here -

I still don't see the use of tri-Cams. They take to long to fiddle with when a cam will ussualy work and they are not as secure as a well placed nut.
I have nerver cam accross a placement where I thought geez if I hadn't given away all my tricams...

true they are less expensive and lighter then a whole bunch of cams, but hey.. [shrug]

-End personal observation

It sounds, Architect, like you don't feel the tri-cam luv. I guess it takes all kinds.... My personal observation has been that tri-cam placements feel really secure, or else they don't go. of course, some people still climb on a shitty placement, I've seconded that! But it's just very evident, to me, when the placement of a tri-cam in bomber.

Some people surely do not know how to clean them(and place them) - that's for sure.

Aya - I'll call down there and see if they have a black guy(yes, on purpose; I intend to call mine "my black guy"), and pick it up tonight. Thanks though.

I have found placements where nothing else would go other than a tricam. When placed correctly they can be more secure that nuts or cams and they really don't take that long to place. They go it horizontal cracks, vertical cracks, pockets as well as strangely shapped placements where nothing else can quite work. Plus they can be placed both passively and actively.

In other climbing areas where there are water pockets nothing will protect those pockets except a tricam.

Smike...

You know my engineering brain loves the challenge involved in removing "fixed" gear...

And of course I don't need more tricams... I don't even carry the ones I've got!

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