wintec webbers

[atlantis]

Are they any good. New share horse has a wintec and I've dug out my old stirrups as I don't get on with bent leg stirrups and wondered if webbers were any good. I have done old Lesters but don't like the look of them so need new ones anyway.

Any opinions?

 

[Malteaser]

Webbers are fine.... The only problem I had with them is that you can't run your stirrups up after riding.

 

[fallenangel123]

That's what annoys me too although I love them on my dressage saddle, as they are very smooth. Having the stirrups crossed over the saddle just seems untidy.

 

[atlantis]

Yeah I've heard about that. There's others that you can move the clip up on and then run up apparently. Might bear that in mind but they'll be more money I should think.

 

[MotherOfChickens]

Bates ones you can hook up-they are leather and synthetic.

 

[Rowreach]

I don't trust them (I've got a pair of Bates leather ones) and I've relegated them to the tack trunk after one gave way when I was getting on. Now obviously I hadn't got the T bar in the hole properly, but even with great care they look dodgy to me, and you can't adjust them once you're on without waving the stirrup and Webber in front of your nose and using two hands If I did ride in them again I would never ever jump in them. Good old fashioned buckle is much safer and easier to work with imo

 

[dRats]

I use both the placcy Wintecs and the leather-covered Bates. You can run both up by hooking up to the hole by the stirrup bar and passing loop thru stirrup. The prob with the Bates is very real!! I failed to hook up properly too...never happens on the ancient Wintecs as the holes go right thru. I have solved this by using hole cutters thru the leather and sealing and shaping the hole in the webbing with a hot-knife/pyrograph-tool/soldering-iron/red-hot-skewer. Prefer the tatty old wintecs tho...the webbing remains good even when the fake leather is worn.