On 1/8/07, pippa258 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm going to order some EZ Ride stirrups and wondered if there was a > preference of aluminum vs. nylon? I'm looking at the ones with the > tapaderos covers.
I have a funky stirrup hangup, so my opinion may not be valid. ;) I don't like the nylon because they're so light if you ever lose one it's hard to get back without reaching don and putting it back. The aluminum was heavy enough that I could find it without bending over. I liked the leather covered best. But, to me stirrups are supposed to be solid with no give. Even if I'm riding 25 miles, I can't stand anything soft, squishy, or bouncy in my stirrups. I've tried all manner of shock absorbers, endurance stirrups, etc... and I have weighted fillis irons (okay, I really have ornate Kelly Siver tooled irons on their way here, but they're just irons!) on *my* saddle. I bought my mother a pair of GPG shock absorbing irons for the saddle her horse uses, and I can ride in them, but I don't really like them. We had the Trail tech irons for a while, and the rebound effect with them drove me crazy. No one else could really feel it, and all the other people (probably 20 people tried them, we passed them around for a few weekends) bought their own and replaced their EZ rides. Steph -- "Brutality begins where skill ends." "Correctly understood, work at the lunge line is indispensable for rider and horse from the very beginning through the highest levels." Von Niendorff
