carbon catapoles....

[Lord of the Poles]

It's known that as long as the first and last letters are in the right spot you can understand and know what word it is.

do you uendrsatnd waht I maen?

[jhesch]

lol, guess my little test worked. nonetheless, i am curious if anyone knows about carbon catapoles. i saw one at jan's camp, and it felt pretty light. if i remember correctly it had green wrapping, the pole itself was gray....nonetheless im curious about how they perform, etc... theres not even a catapole website or anything that i know of.....

[rainbowgirl28]

lol, guess my little test worked. nonetheless, i am curious if anyone knows about carbon catapoles. i saw one at jan's camp, and it felt pretty light. if i remember correctly it had green wrapping, the pole itself was gray....nonetheless im curious about how they perform, etc... theres not even a catapole website or anything that i know of.....

You sure you are not talking about carbon Skypoles? Those were real but they don't make them anymore. I don't think Catapole ever made green poles.

[lonestar]

lol, guess my little test worked. nonetheless, i am curious if anyone knows about carbon catapoles. i saw one at jan's camp, and it felt pretty light. if i remember correctly it had green wrapping, the pole itself was gray....nonetheless im curious about how they perform, etc... theres not even a catapole website or anything that i know of.....

You sure you are not talking about carbon Skypoles? Those were real but they don't make them anymore. I don't think Catapole ever made green poles.

Catapole did make green poles back in the day- Jan's day! The Catapole "Unfair Advantage" of the early 70's was green. In fact, that was one of the poles banned in the '72 Munich games. I heard the reason they printed "Unfair Advantage" on the labels as a marketing gimmick to make people think they were the best thing to happen since fiberglass.

[lonestar]

lol, guess my little test worked. nonetheless, i am curious if anyone knows about carbon catapoles. i saw one at jan's camp, and it felt pretty light. if i remember correctly it had green wrapping, the pole itself was gray....nonetheless im curious about how they perform, etc... theres not even a catapole website or anything that i know of.....

In my opinion, Carbon Cats suck. We had a few of them at SWT, and none of my guys liked them. 2 of them were twisters and would spin in their hands at takeoff, they didn't feel any lighter than any straight fiberglass poles, and bent low as crap.

[jhesch]

in response to becca's, im sure it was a carbon catapole. i remember it saying catapole carbon, and a little phrase on the pole that said "the cat is back." im not positive it was green. i remember a lot of poles at jan's were either spray painted or had some sort of color markings on them above and below the sticker, and it could have been that it was painted green. regardless of carbon or not, seems no one likes catapoles, and i rarely see them. are they still in business?
if im not mistaken, old skypoles were banned because of suspicions of containing carbon fiber, but they were in fact manufactured similar to other fiberglass poles. they them were labeled the unfair advantage because of the suspicion that they had carbon fiber, which was false. (therefore no real advantage to other fiberglass poles) wonder if they knew then or hypothesized about making a carbon skypole eventually....

[Bruce Caldwell]

lol, guess my little test worked. nonetheless, i am curious if anyone knows about carbon catapoles. i saw one at jan's camp, and it felt pretty light. if i remember correctly it had green wrapping, the pole itself was gray....nonetheless im curious about how they perform, etc... theres not even a catapole website or anything that i know of.....

I used to be the GM for PORTapit Catapole and I stand corrected as we did make some carbon pole sin 1993-94 well not real carbon just some faux carbon in the resin not the glass.
and did have some test carbon glass poles out.
(Correction made on this post on 10/20/03)DANG


You might be referring to an accelerator pole that had carbon strips they were teal aqua colored.

the catapole website is http://www.portapit.com

[lonestar]

I don't know what year they were made Bruce, but there were Catapole Carbons made within the last ten years. Yellow sticker, grey glass. They say on the label "Catapole Carbon: the Cat is back!" We have 1 or 2 over at Texas State.

[jhesch]

ah, there we go. that's the pole i was talkin about, and when i think about it i guess it was yellow, and i think sections were just spray painted green. i remember it had that slogan and it indeed had grey glass. thanks

[jhesch]

oh ya, i gorgot to mention that link didn't work when i tried it. did anyone else have trouble with it?

[Bruce Caldwell]

ah, there we go. that's the pole i was talkin about, and when i think about it i guess it was yellow, and i think sections were just spray painted green. i remember it had that slogan and it indeed had grey glass. thanks

Yes I did too try

http://www.portapit.com and go to the search for poles

it must be something they tried to do after I left.

[PVJunkie]

Posted by PORTaPIT on March 27, 1999 at 11:30:15:

In Reply to: Catapoles posted by Intergalactic on March 23, 1999 at 20:53:49:

If the catapole has carbon it is three years old we do not make them with carbon anymore


: Hey,

: Does anyone here jump on the new Catapoles or
: Catapole Carbons? If so, I'd really like to know
: what your opinion(s) are? How much do they weigh,
: what's the grip size like, how do they feel when
: you use them, and what's the cost like in
: comparison to UCS and Pacer.

This was a quote from the vaultworld BB............the poster was unreg so maybe they did not ACTUALLY work for the co.........but if so they were made some time before 1996. Heck just look for the production date........I think they engraved that info into the pole like everyone else.