In reply to TobyA:
No, never tried the long continuous single strap. I had some ancient Stubai for a long time with two neoprene straps per crampon which I found great till they became too blunt. Then I got some DMM Summits (like Aiguille but fully strap) , which I neoprened several times till you couldn't get the neoprene any more - they are currently part neoprene and part Grivel yellow tape with rings and used for walking/mixed scrambling as they too are worn blunt and short.
I got a load of rivets from Needle some time ago and I think the neoprene is from Aiguille Alpine where they cut some off a roll for me years ago. I acquired some unused Aiguille crampons a year or two ago and using them brought back memories of when the Summits were new - easily the equal of G12s and easily repairable. Also reasonably non-balling as crampons without the plates go. I loved the DMM Summit as aclassic old style crampon, bombproof and sold to me for ice climbing but a couple of years later they were being sold for walking and easy gullies - I suppose it is a good way of getting people to spend money on something impressively expensive
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