Gripes about Reactor Panel

["Linda B. Merims" <lbm@naisp.net>]

Ha, ha, just trolling...

 

I've been looking at Reactor Panels too and the only complaints my

highly critical nature has been able to find are:

 

- There's no picture anywhere of their adjustable stirrup bar

  (yes, you can get them with an adjustable stirrup bar) and

  none of the demos the dealer from Long Island has has one.

 

- The endurance model only comes in bridle-finish leather.  I hate

  bridle leather.

 

I thought their "keep it on try out until you're dead sure and then

we'll order yours" policy was a good approach to the whole problem

of returns (but an issue if there's no demo with adjustable

stirrup bars).  I especially liked the endurance model's twist

(I dunno if it was narrower or wider, but it sure felt good).  I just

didn't like the slick bridle leather.

 

I also liked the "thick/medium/narrow" velcroed pucks by which

the saddle attaches to the panels.  This scheme goes

a long way to answering the problem that Ortho-Flex had with

their front panel fixed, rotating mounting posts being too close

together for wide shouldered horses with no way to adjust them

(at least until the very end when they came up with those

$400 option screw adjusts).  Here we've got a little piece of

thick, dense foam doing the same job as OF's complicated

post-with-rotating-head design, and doing it better.

 

Oh, but that's not a gripe, is it?

 

Linda B. Merims

lbm@naisp.net

Massachusetts, USA