Petzl Pack 10 DJNN Steel Carabiner - 10-Pack

It's great that manufacturers are finally realizing the need for high quality steel carabiners to use for fixed gear instead of the aluminum ones that wear out so quickly, however, I think petzl could have done better with this biner. As far as the positives go, this is the lightest steel biner that I know of at just 108 grams, however, since steel biners are meant to be left as fixed gear, the weight savings is irrelevant for the most part. Another positive is that these biners have a nice big rope bearing radius thanks to the hot forging process used to make them. My main gripe with these biners is their clipability. The spring tension of the gate is much too high making them much worse for clipping than I would have imagined. I kind of figured that these would clip similarly to a normal spirit (I've never used the aluminum djinn so I can't compare to them), but the spirit clips about a million times better than this biner. I had really hoped that the solid gate would be great for clipping, but in the end, it just makes clipping harder, and adds weight to the biner. Petzl should have either made it a wire-gate biner to make it even lighter since that appears to be one of their goals (even though I know that petzl is anti-wire-gate for some strange reason), or put a weaker spring in it to make it so that it clips really well.