Sterling positioned the XEROS dry series as a climber’s best bet at a cost-effective, workhorse rope. Now, it claims you can take a fresh one straight from the gear shop to the cliff and start climbing — no flaking required.
There’s a singular appeal to a factory-coiled climbing rope: the tight figure-8 shape, the perfectly uniform coils, the tightly wound collar.
But any climber who’s bought a brand new rope knows a factory coil makes extra work. If you just unwind the collar and start climbing, you’re asking for snag trouble — the first step in new rope ownership, every time, is flaking it out.
Not so anymore. Sterling announced it’s delivering its new Nano 8.9 mm XEROS rope with a factory lap coil. The Send Ready Coil, it says, makes the Nano “ready-to-climb, straight from the factory. No uncoiling and flaking necessary!”
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Send Ready Coil: No Flaking?
At first glance, it sure looks different in the package than the typical peanut shape. Sterling said feedback from climbers informed the innovation. To deliver it, the brand said it built its own new factory equipment.
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