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PSA: Looks like I've been disconnecting from my tether the wrong way this whole time!

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Factory sled tether, when I bought it I put on a decent carabiner on its end to hook into my jackets D-ring. When I need to get off sled, I would disconnect carabiner from jacket and walk away. When helmet was on, it was sometime difficult to snap back onto jacket because limited visibility when looking down, just did it mostly by "feel".

Then, was watching a YouTube video and noticed the instructor and student were walking around with their tether hanging from their jacket. BIG LIGHT COMES ON! Of course, much easier to just leave that D-Ring alone and snap the other end of tether back into the SLED! Which you can see with helmet on.

Only took me the third season with a tether to figure out. ?
 

Teth-Air

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You can wear a tether out by snapping it on and off the sled over and over. This is why some guys don't want to do it that way. Then again there are some guys that are lazy and don't want to play with the tether at all and they install a Phantom Teth-Air. It has roll over shutdown too which gets tested more than for the run-away sled scenario.
 
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Another dude on you tube loops the end and wears as braclet . So use stock clip clip to self in loop place on your brake wrist. Works great super easy and no searching for clip on suit or jacket or whatever lol
 
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I loop my tether back on its self and put around my wrist. Done it this way for over 30 yrs. never an issue and is easy to slide over your gloves
Yup ... biggest advantage is that it's in my hand when knocked over so you don't have to fumble to find it when you need to shut machine off in a hurry....when attached to your suit in some cases it can be hard to find

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Not a fan of the wear your tether method. Like mentioned, they do wear out or get gunk in them.
Seen a couple fail to reconnect and need bypassed on the hill.
Or there’s the guy that dangles his on the exhaust or closes it in his plastics and walks away.
 

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I've tried this a few times and have had my sled try to cut out sometimes when the tether gets snow in it, which compacts when I reattach it - it doesn't seat all the way.

I wonder if the magnetic ones ice up... Dura-tether or whatever it's called.
 
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Well damn, here I was thinking I had this figured out. Don't like the idea of it wearing out early and giving me issues later. Might have to try this tether around wrist thing, seems not right to me, like something could go wrong and hand slips out without killing motor.

Also wanted to clarify- it wasn't YouTube but on a thread here where I saw it. It was Burandt himself and dude with handlebar mustache who had tethers hanging off their jackets.
 
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Can just un clip from jacket /suit too easy enough. I can say the wrist thing works and I’ve crashed a lot and pulled just like the other. I put it on and give it a quick cinch and it’s on. It ms like a lasso and gets tighter as you fling off lol.
 
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I didn't know if it would be an issue or not so I printed a new tether end and installed a magnet in it. Resides in my dash for the one time it may be needed.
 

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Coldfinger

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I am going to try a small dog collar strapped to my wrist.

These are very strong and have a D-ring.

Should be easy to connect and disconnect tether from wrist.
 

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our group puts a caribiner on our jacket and a caribiner on the tether so there is a larger attachment point on our jacket that you can feel better with gloves on.
 

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Well damn, here I was thinking I had this figured out. Don't like the idea of it wearing out early and giving me issues later. Might have to try this tether around wrist thing, seems not right to me, like something could go wrong and hand slips out without killing motor.

Also wanted to clarify- it wasn't YouTube but on a thread here where I saw it. It was Burandt himself and dude with handlebar mustache who had tethers hanging off their jackets.
Give it a try around your wrist. I think you will find that it has very low probably of coming off. It tightens as it pulls. Works great.
 

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our group puts a caribiner on our jacket and a caribiner on the tether so there is a larger attachment point on our jacket that you can feel better with gloves on.
Pics please
 

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About 20 years ago I was playing with different ideas. One I didn't take to completion was 2 strong permanent magnets that had 1/2 of a tether cord on each. Just bringing them close together they would connect automatically. They were strong enough that the tether switch would pull before the magnets would pull apart but when I wanted them apart I could just pull on each cord. It worked well only sucked when i got close to my truck door and that was why I abandoned the idea. Might work to have a super strong permanent magnet on the cuff of the jacket as you would have more control on what it got close to.
 
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