Jonathan Dietch <<nmerider>>
writes:

Since I replace every single pulley and rope-related bearing in
the VG system of my nearly 900-hour old T2C, it's so easy to pull the rope it's
difficult not to hit the spreader bar tower unintentionally. Roughly 120% of
factory full VG. I did previously re-lubricate the crossbar hinge pins using
DuPont Teflon grease which stands up well to extreme pressure.

Dustin pulled the stopper from mine when the glider was new and owned by Terry
Reynolds in May, 2009, when Terry did his first comp comeback season.

Anyhow, I'm surprised at the total lack of response about the difference
following routine VG system maintenance. I fly ~80% of the time with the rope in
my hand and I use it. I have very little strength and stamina and it takes far
less effort to keep pulling the rope so I can circle with VG as loose as I need.
Some days I'm so weak I have to fly the Sport 2.

I neglected to mention that the nylon sheave pulley that comes stock in the
right downtube of the Sport 2 has extremely high sticktion and the VG rope tends
to slide over the sheave rather than the sheave actually turning. I replaced it
with the same ball bearing pulley that comes standard on the T2C and the force
required to pull the rope went down by like 80-90%.

No exaggeration.