| I'm experimenting sidemount just now.
Dragon harness plus single cylinder halcyon wing with suitable attachments made by Dragon.
Once I'd got longer than standard bungees on the dragon, no problems with easy on/off of cylinders in dive, until then, a bit of a nightmare.
Still messing about in Crummock, but it seems fine. Hose route for wing no problem so far, tucked under a surgical tubing loop on left shoulder of harness as in a normal twin type rig, left cylinder reg looped over back of neck.
Tried my prehistoric pro14 10 ton cannister in many a position, butt-mounted was the only satisfactory one for trim-----but complicated cylinder removal, so have recently gone onto helmet mounted lights.
Many thanks to YDers for a recent thread on lights for this.
I feel I'm going full circle here, from a pretty standard boring dir type rig-----horses for courses I guess!
I had tried the backplate method first, it is not as comfortable.
Crummock can be boring, but I've yet to hit my head on the roof :-)
Cheers, Malcolm.  |