
$8.00
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Imported.
Item 779817
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Comments about Zoot Race Day Belt - Unisex:
You would think that a simple product like a race belt would be easy to design...wrong. I have very recently started doing Triathlons, and so, on one hand, I was excited to find this belt in pink. On the other hand, there are two major problems with this belt that make it not worth the fun girly color and its affordable price.
1) The toggles to attach your bib number are too far apart; therefore you either have wear the belt bunched up in the back in order to hold your number close to the belt, or you have to loosen the toggles to avoid the bunching. However, than the bib hangs loosely away from the body and catches a lot of air on the bike and flaps noisily and on the run hangs down and hits you in the upper thighs. I had a friend tell me to wear it on your hip and avoid the floppiness. However, I tired that, and the toggles tend to hit you in your arms as you run.
2) The plastic piece that allows you to adjust your belt to you size falls off the end of the actual elastic belt and that clip that holds it around your waist. My hubby had this happen in transition not too long ago (he has the black Zoot race belt), and he ended up wasting 90+ seconds fixing his belt...vital time in a tri. Because I had learned from him, I put a safety pin through the end to fix it, but now it is difficult to adjust. I had another friend who had the same belt, and during her run in the tri, her whole belt actually came off, and she had to turn around through the crowd of running tri-athletes to find her number.
Overall, this is not a good product.
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