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Broke on of these... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Easton-Mountain-Products-Ultra-Light-Aluminum/dp/B007CWY0GY when touring in Scotland a few weeks back. Need to source a replacement and a couple of spares. I was quite happy with the Easton pegs but they don't appear to be available anywhere (the one I broke got trodden on so clumsiness on my behalf).
Can anyone recommend a lightish but decent replacement?
Alpkit do lightweight pegs I believe. Titanium or unobtainium or something.
Alpkit do lightweight pegs I believe.
These? https://www.alpkit.com/products/tipins
Good God man, those are 6.5 grams per peg! What are you thinking??
Surely carbon pegs are where it is at:
http://www.bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/shop/?product=carbon-pencil-pegs
A far more manageable 6g per peg. 😉
A far more manageable 6g per peg.
That's much more like it 🙂
I'm not sure as I'd trust those ultra-fine jobs. Just had a look, they do a few now. These look promising:
https://www.alpkit.com/products/apex
There's the Y-beams if you want to stick to aluminium, too.
If you wish to damage your finances Hilleberg do some nice pegs. The Vaude copies are cheaper.
Look on the CamCleat website.
They do really good pegs, cam cleats, guy ropes etc etc
Alpkit Candy Canes seem nice and sturdy, work fine on most ground, and a decent hook at the top. Not superlightweight (15g per peg), but you're not going to break them easily.
Alpkit Candy Canes seem nice and sturdy, work fine on most ground, and a decent hook at the top. Not superlightweight (15g per peg), but you're not going to break them easily.
I'm quite good at bending "standard" wire pegs so would quite like to avoid those. I've just weighed one of the pegs I've got - 8g - so don't want to go much more than that (which is a bit silly really as I pack everything including the kitchen sink when I go touring!)
Most places I've pitched a tent pegs like those would have bent in half the first time they got hammered into the ground, which is why I use these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pyramid-Rock-Peg-and-Hammer-Kit-15-Hard-Ground-Pegs-With-Free-Hammer-/162499589853?hash=item25d5baf6dd
Not [i]exactly[/i] lightweight, but then again I like my tent to stay where I pitched it.
no better just taking a decent knife and quickly making some wooden pegs on site, rather than using expensive bits of wire? 😆
no better just taking a decent knife and quickly making some wooden pegs on site, rather than using expensive bits of wire?
I like that idea 🙂
or just do a jobby before you leave, and take the heavy pegs! 😆
Been let down by light pegs too many times. Ground needs to be perfect . It never is.
I've got alpkit silly light ti wire pegs and I've got the bearbones carbons.
The latter needed a groove filing on or had a tendancy for the guy to slip over top in bad weather despite angling severely.
Settled on the alu serrated v profile pegs from alpkit much less fussy about the pitch - seem very similar to my Terra Nova pegs
Taking just one of those Easton pegs with a few lightweights is a good compromise as you can use the Easton to make the hole, take it out, then insert a lightweight peg easily.
Got some super lite to ones and unless the ground is perfect I found them useless. They are rediculously lite thought.
Best peg I have was I bought some aluminium angle extrusion and made my own. Choose a small size and cut to length, cut a point on the end and a notch in the top.i haven't weighed them but seem good enough in that respect!
I've got a spare bag of Easton pegs at home, pretty sure they are the same ones you are looking for. Email me and I'll have a look when I get home tonight, I'm sure I can be tempted to part with 3 of them.
mark.pearson AT madison.co.uk
Some pegs arrived in the post this morning from the lovely Mister P. Cheers!
The peg needs to match the ground - super light titanium pegs aren't going to work in stony ground or in sand. They won't go into the first and have no cross-sectional area to be useful in the latter.
I take a mixture from super light to more solid pegs, then use the most appropriate for the main lines that will take the biggest strain and use the rest as and where I can.
No worries Simon, I hope they serve you well.
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Snow Peak stuff is lovely if silly priced in the UK.
Copper Head Peg Hammer anyone?
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Another +1 for the Alpkit here.
Copper Head Peg Hammer anyone?
I suspect that weighs more than my tent!
That copper headed peg hammer is the mutts! Those Snow Peak pegs are pretty cool, too, but I'll stick with the ones I posted up above, they're sturdy enough to hammer in just about anywhere, and the Orange head makes them easy to find in the grass, although my guys are dayglo Orange 550 paracord with reflective weave, which works well day and night*.
*provided people use a bloody torch, instead of stumbling around in the dark, tripping over everyone's guy-ropes.
**Solar-powered strings of LED lights helps with that, but not always a practical proposition...
$63! 😯
I'd get one of these for just over a tenner: https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Thor-Tho308-308-Copper-Hammer-Size-a/1905295775?iid=262397204995