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REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair

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The REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips convert your hiking poles to street poles for urban exploring.

Durable rubber tips feature wide, flat bases for grip and stability on pavement and other smooth surfaces
Tips are compatible with Komperdell poles and REI poles made by Komperdell

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Item 802064

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REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair Customer Reviews

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REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair

2.8

(based on 9 reviews)

38%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Cons

Best Uses

Hiking (4)
Backpacking (3)

- Reviewer Profile:
- Avid adventurer (5), Casual/ recreational (3)
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- Survivalist / minimalist (3)

Reviewed by 9 customers

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Mar

2013

5.0

A Tale of Two Tips

By Rocky High

from Boulder, CO

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Pros

Good grips

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking
Hiking

Comments about REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair:

Komperdell aluminum trekking poles, and REI-branded Komperdell poles, come with two different tip styles. Many of the basic poles simply have a small metal plug, with or without a carbide button, inserted in the end of the metal bottom pole section. These poles require a rubber tip that is a little over three-eighths of an inch in diameter (0.4 inches or about 10 mm).

Many of the pricier poles have a four-inch plastic tip inserted over the metal tip. These are friction-fitted and can be found on the Internet if you look hard enough for about $20 a pair. They also extend the life of the poles--the unprotected metal tips wear terribly on coarse ground.

Obviously, these plastic tips are larger than the metal tip they fit over and require a larger rubber tip, about a half-inch in diameter (0.47 inches or about 12 mm). These are the tips that REI carries. I've found the smaller tips at a trading post named for a mountain range west of Reno.

The Komperdell tips are tapered for a very tight fit and I've yet to lose one, though I have worn some out.

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Jul

2012

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Rubber Walking Tips

By MikO

from MD

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking
Hiking

Comments about REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair:

I've used these tips (REI and Komperdell brands, which appear to be same) on my Komperdell poles for more than 15 years. I've occasionally replaced them when the tip wore through the rubber, but only after many, many miles of use. I think some of the negative comments may be due to confusion over tip protectors vs rubber walking tips. I've never had any rubber tips crack, split, or wear prematurely. They work great.

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Mar

2012

(0 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Save your money and buy Leki Tips

By DeanInCBTS

from San Diego

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Cons

Brittle

Best Uses

Comments about REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair:

To start, this is false advertising. The Tips are made from Plastic, not rubber. Plastic does not grip the surface as well as rubber. Worse, the plastic does not "stretch" to go over the tip of your Pole. The result is that these things frequently "split" down the side just putting them on your Pole.

Leki makes actual Rubber Tips, and they seem to fit the REI (Komperdell) poles pretty well.

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Apr

2011

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Don't buy this product

By oldmandan

from Seattle, WA

About Me Casual/ Recreational

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Pros

Cons

Brittle
Split vertically

Best Uses

Comments about REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair:

I bought these to protect the tips of my trekking poles. I got waylaid before I could use the poles and then when I went to use them these tips had split vertically just sitting on the tips without ever being used! Not what I expect of an REI product.

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Mar

2011

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Stop! Wait! Read this first:

By psychomaven

from Jackson, NJ

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Comments about REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair:

REI claims that these tips will fit Komperdell trekking poles. Well, in all fairness to REI, these tips may, in fact, fit some Komperdell trekking poles, but they DO NOT FIT the Komperdell poles I just purchased. That, naturally, renders them useless, for the purpose for which they are intended--the purpose for which they were purchased. Sent back. If you are near enough to an REI store to try them out before you buy, I would recommend doing so.

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Jul

2010

(4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Please buy the CORRECT item!

By Neusiok

from Raleigh, NC

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Pros

Easy to adjust
Flexible
Good grips
Lightweight
Strong

Cons

Best Uses

Backpacking
Day trip
Hiking

Comments about REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair:

If you try to use the "tip protectors" instead of the "rubber tips" you will be quickly disappointed! The tip protectors are NOT FOR WALKING--simply for transporting your poles safely so the sharp metal tips don't jab you or poke through your pack. They work great for that, but are NOT intended for use on the road or trail.

However, the rubber tips themselves are a "must have" for general hiking/walking, and I'm surprised that they aren't included with the poles to start with. I found on the AT that the steel tips either skitter across smooth surfaces, get stuck between rocks, or sink too far into soft dirt. But the rubber tips them useful in most trail conditions and on asphalt--and make them much quieter, too.

I never liked using trekking poles until I put these tips on them. They work great and last a long time. Don't buy the poles without them.

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Jul

2010

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

most tip protectors

By jill from pa

from rural Pa

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Comments about REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair:

they tore before I realized it. certainly can't be used to walk with, and are only minimally useful for tip protectors. Do not fit the poles they are supposed to fit I guess. rubber is thin too.

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May

2010

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

They work!

By chain

from Michigan

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Pros

Strong

Cons

Best Uses

Hiking

Comments about REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair:

I see another reviewer had a problem, but I've used these for years and never had them wear through, even using my old ones all the stone steps of the Inca Trail. I shared the extra new ones I had on the trip with others who wore through theirs. Its the best buy of the tips.

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Mar

2010

(2 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Not for walking

By Helge

from Greensboro, NC

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Pros

Cons

One use only

Best Uses

Comments about REI Trekking Pole Rubber Walking Tips - 12mm - Pair:

These are actually nothing more than tip protectors. Used them once for some fitness walking of not more than 4 km and the metal tip on my REI trekking poles was worn through. Returned to the store and am now trying the LEKI fitness walking tips. Bite the bullet and but the expensive tips!