Mega Jul

My MegaJul does that too. 🤷 I guess if I start having material missing from my carabiner I'll replace it. For now I think it's just street cred. 😂 I do think my MegaJul behaves better with an Edelrid Bulletproof carabiner. It's not critical though.

Personlly I love the Edelrid Giga Jul of that can fir yout budget, but for sport climbing before I used Mega Jul. Giga can do more when it comes to multi-pitch thats all. I found the MegaJul a great an easy device to be used

Edelrid recently updated their Mega Jul. I'd love to try it out, but since I have a Giga Jul (which is shit if you don't use the exact right rope) and a Grigri (I don't like it, but it's workable), I don't actually need a new device.

I think a lot of dislike for the grigri from people who originally learned to lead belay on an ATC comes from just not having enough practice with it to belay smoothly. I was a grigri hater for years (used an edelrid jul 2 as my ABD for a long time) and have switched to the grigri as of a couple yea

There are other, less expensive and equally dependable ABDs (Assisted Braking Device) available like the Edelrid MegaJul, BD ATC Pilot, Mamut Smart, or CT Click Up/Alpine Up. Most can be found around $50 US, have attributes that many prefer over the GriGri (i.e. double ropes, less weight, and/or SS

epictv.com (they have a US site) has them under $70. Shipping is pretty steep since they ship from EU, but they have a free shipping tier at $100 or so. I just bought two Pinches for me and a friend. As for whether it's worth it, I think anything is an upgrade from a basic ATC. There are several oth