New Geartags help make your hardware easily identifiable and returnable if lost...
If you've ever suffered from mixed-up kit syndrome, you'll
appreciate Geartags an ingenious but very simple new idea from OM
member Bass.
It all started off with Bass's desire to prevent his climbing
hardware becoming 'crag swag and grew from there. Essentially
Geartags are customised, coloured labels that you stick to your gear
so if - for example - it decides to base jump from the top of Dow
Crag, you have a sporting chance of getting it back. Ditto if you're
in a bunkhouse where everyone just happens to have identical
headtorches and ooops, now someone has two...
You can choose a variety of colours for both labels and print and
decide what you want them to say. In our case we went for name,
e-mail address and a polite little prompt saying 'Oi! Give it
back...' Subtle huh?
The labels come in two parts, the base coloured label with
lettering and a tough clear layer which you stick over the top for
added protection. We chose our labels coloured to match our normal
gear-marking tape in red and white.
The labels are small enough to sit on most climbing gear and
hardware like trekking poles and headtorches. In an ideal world, it
would be nice if the overlayer was slightly bigger than the base
label to offer more protection and make them slightly less fiddly to
apply, but at the moment Bass is limited by stock label sizes.
So far, so good, but for a decent durability test, we've stuck a
couple on the downtube of a mountain bike where they should get a
proper pasting and we'll let you know how they get on in due
course.
Bass is also working on larger tags for larger things and a tag for soft goods where labels simply won't stick, but for now, it's one size only.
Price is a tenner for a sheeet of 84 two-layer tags, which means
they could pay for themselves with the return of a single bit of
gear. More details and online ordering at www.geartags.co.uk.
