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Originally Posted by marshall
I think it is time to revive this discussion. Has anyone come up with a better bumper fabric material that they would care to share?
We're experimenting with sailcloth now. We're also looking into embroidering the numbers rather than painting them.
I'm curious to see what revisions FIRST makes to the rules this year for bumpers. They need to be easier for rookie teams to implement and for veteran teams to assist with. We advocated to Andy to make some corner brackets to make them easier to build. He had a prototype at CMP that was pretty cool but no word yet on whether they will be building it or teams will be able to buy it. I'm hoping for it personally.
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Are you talking about
this and/or
this? If so, they are available now. And have you felt the iron on number that came in the kit? We have used them for the two previous years and they are pretty slick against standard Cordura nylon. I haven't had a chance to test sailcloth or ballistic nylon but I would imagine it would be just as slippery.