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Cypher climbing gear

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Trever O'Brien · · SD · Joined Oct 2014 · Points: 25

Sorry if this has been posted previously. I was just wondering how many people use and trust this gear? If so which of their products do you use? Thanks.

portercassidy · · UT/CO · Joined Nov 2006 · Points: 66

I have been climbing on Cypher biners for the past hand full of years, and I think they are great. The best part about them, is that when I am sorting gear at the end of the day, it is easy to spot all of my cyphers out of my buddies gear. A lot harder to spot all of my BD gear.

I use a lot of the wiregates for my slings.
I also like their lockers as well.

The action is similar to BD's IMO.

Cameron Sumpter · · Lander, WY · Joined Aug 2010 · Points: 65

I have had about 20 Cypher Mydas biners on my rack now for... 4? years. Awesome. Light. My partners seems to enjoy using them as well. I use them mainly for trad/alpine draws.

Edit: I used to carry their pearbiners too but eventually sold them and upgraded to 3D attache's to drop weight.

mac gilbert · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2011 · Points: 110

I have Cypher Mydas biners on my offset cams and alpine draws for about 2 or 3 years. I like them a lot and have no complaints.

Mtn Ape XL · · Utah · Joined Apr 2010 · Points: 131

I have used Cypher Echo wire gates for the past year for my sport and ice quickdraws....lightweight....easy to clip with or without gloves....shrouded nose to protect the gate...low price = $70 for 6 quickdraws online...blue color for the top of the draw and silver on the bottom....acceptable 25 kn rating...and they look cool...buying another 24 for my trad/alpine set up...not a big fan of their skinny dogbones, not a fan of anyone's skinny bogbone for that matter, so I change them to Petzl Express

Pavel Burov · · Russia · Joined May 2013 · Points: 50

Thay are OK climbing gear reseller. Most likely (my assumption) they do not design/produce climbing gear. Only OEM sales. E.g., they provide the same Korean made binners Trango sells as Trango Phase.

ANGUS WIESSNER · · Denver Colorad · Joined Feb 2009 · Points: 1,618

Top notch carabiners they even make a bent gate wire gate Carabiner witch I've never seen from another company. I also have an old cypher cam that I bought at wilderness exchange seems good.
If your looking to get a set off draws no one else has go with cypher. Also Cypher what a cool name for a climbing company surprised there not more popular in America.

Bent gate wire

Gunkiemike · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2009 · Points: 3,492

CAMP, Trango, and Mad Rock have bent wiregate biners.

Ken Noyce · · Layton, UT · Joined Aug 2010 · Points: 2,648
Gunkiemike wrote:CAMP, Trango, and Mad Rock have bent wiregate biners.
Yep, along with faders, and kong, and i'm pretty sure i've seen some bent wires from grivel also.
mattm · · TX · Joined Jun 2006 · Points: 1,885
Trever O'Brien wrote:Sorry if this has been posted previously. I was just wondering how many people use and trust this gear? If so which of their products do you use? Thanks.
I don't have any of their biners per-se but I likely have some from the OEM factory where cypher sources as well.

Trango Korea is an OEM for many larger brands as are King Snaps and CIC etc. If you browse their catalogs you're likely to recognize designs from several other brands (WC, Trango USA, ClimbTech TX, Cypher, Metolius etc etc.

If you're considering Cypher might I also suggest looking at ClimbTech in Austin - Good group of people up there working to make solid stuff.
Trever O'Brien · · SD · Joined Oct 2014 · Points: 25

How about the new nuts they came out with? Has anyone used them?

Pavel Burov · · Russia · Joined May 2013 · Points: 50
Trever O'Brien wrote:How about the new nuts they came out with? Has anyone used them?
The same as ABC Huevos, OEM branding. outdoorgearlab.com/Climbing…
20 kN · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2009 · Points: 1,346
Gunkiemike wrote:CAMP, Trango, and Mad Rock have bent wiregate biners.
As does Stubai and Kong.

Anyway, Cypher is great. We carry them at the local shop. Their biners are better than some of the stuff BD makes IMO.
Kyle Price · · Charleston wv · Joined May 2017 · Points: 420

i use a lot of cyphers gear. i have two pairs of shoes  my first pair was the prefix and i bought them brand new for 30$   those shoes worked great for me and i was out every other weekend for a year at the new river gorge before they blew out. i also have 6 quick draws  they are alright i think bd has better quality draws but i have taken many whips on the cypher draws and  used them solid for almost 2 years they have scratches but i still trust whipping on them. i also have a pair of cypher phelix women's shoes i bought brand new for 57$ and they were amazing tight fit low stretch.  sensitive. i have been climbing on them since august  and its march. i just got a hole on the right foot about a month ago. but honestly for the price i dont care if i blow through pair after pair id keep buying them. but sadly cypher no longer sells these two shoes nor are the updated pairs like the prefix 2.0 and the phelix 2.0 near the same price. i had alot of my friends crack jokes cause i was wearing such cheep shoes. but i crushed just as hard and if not harder than most of my friends wearing 150-175$ shoes.   

Jackson Chambers · · Springville, UT · Joined Apr 2017 · Points: 52

All of they're gear is safe. I've got a locker that's worked well for 9 months. I bought some shoes (prefix 2.0 I think?) as my first pair and they tore open on my 4th climb, so it's definitely not the most high quality. 

Andy P. · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2013 · Points: 190

In my experience the small locking biners are good. I've tortured a few of them on my leash set up, meaning they get dragged all over the place, the gates/smoothness of action has held up as well as any of my vaporlocks (I only have sample size of two though, so grain of salt).

Tradgic Yogurt · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2016 · Points: 55

Oh man, the Prefix (1.0) shoes were absolutely great gym shoes, decent fit at an unbeatable price. Not sure how the 2.0s are, might find out soon as I'm basically climbing on all rubber/no more leather in the gym (yep, the leather started shredding on day 1, but the rubber is still going strong several months later).

Rob WardenSpaceLizard · · las Vegans, the cosmic void · Joined Dec 2011 · Points: 130

None of  the cypher hard goods come from Taiwan. Metilous uses a comapny in Taiwan. 

Cypher uses climbing technology in Italy and another in central europe. 

Its all re badged, however most brands hard goods are, for all sports. 

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