Gibbon Arms Cable Crossover Rack Attachment

They say they are good for 200lbs but weld gave out on me at 150lb so maybe not.

They are good. Going forward I would add an adjustment for the guide rollers to clean up the movement. Clean up the slop and you have gold.

They were not that hard to install. I did have some issue with keeping the new cables on the rollers. Once I got them set up, it was magic. I have the Echo Strength Depot half rack functional trainer, and the Gibbon Arms fit perfectly. The versatility I have now is incredible. Instead of having to move the trolly's up and down for every different movement, I just raise the arms up, down, left or right, and I can do several different exercises with minimal adjustments. Overall, I love this upgrade. I also love the aesthetic of the red aluminum pullies. Everything in my gym is powder coat black, so the red adds some color, and really stands out. I could not be happier. Oh, and my wife likes them as well.

Very easy setup (it was more difficult getting my old trolleys off than it was to add these on).If measured and cut properly, the cables shouldn't cause the plates to float when at the very top position. At the lowest position, there is about an inch of play with the cables, but that's understandable. Very happy with all the variations of cable exercises I can now do with these!

I have a REP Athena wall-mount which was not compatible. Initially, Fringe said it was compatible withthe Athena, but I have the 16" crossmembers which puts the weight stack too close to the front upright. After I received the Gibbon Arms and contacted fringe with photos, we got it resolved. They were super helpful and professional. No problems with the return and refund. Truly great customer service.

It adds a lot more variety than I anticipated. And also I need to take my j-hooks off less frequently because I can go around them. Well worth the upgrade.

It adds a lot more variety than I anticipated. And also I need to take my j-hooks off less frequently because I can go around them. Well worth the upgrade.

These gibbon arms are great! It made the Dane 2.0 so much more useful from lat pull downs to cable flys. If you are thinking about buying them just do it!

Great upgrade. Took about an hour and fifteen minutes to swap over. Just be aware if you have The Drew it becomes useless. Low rows - you can still do them but the range of motion changes and will require getting adjusted to. Cable flies are amazing at home. Im 6'1" and can fully stretch into the flies now instead of just having to do dumbell flies all the time, shoulders don't like the db flies very much. I'd buy it again just skip the Drew.

After installation and a week of use, I have determined that these are "okay" at best and not worth the cost.Here are the issues I have encountered:1. The pop pin that controls vertical movement is too large for its location on the Gibbon Arm. As the arm rotates toward the outermost adjustment position, the pop pin contacts another part of the assembly before the arm can rotate far enough for the pin to engage the final adjustment hole, making that position unusable.2. Two of the bolts on my Gibbon Arms were installed facing the wrong direction. The excess threads extending beyond the nuts contacted other parts of the assembly before the arm could rotate far enough to reach one of the adjustment holes. I was able to correct this by reversing the bolts, but removing them was difficult because threadlocker had been applied at the factory.3. The Gibbon Arms are too long to converge in the center of the rack. To make them meet, they must also be angled roughly a foot away from the rack, which places the user in an uncomfortable and less stable position away from the leg holder and results in compromised exercise form.4. The swivel mechanism on the pulley does not function properly under load. During movements that remain parallel to the pulley, it operates smoothly. However, as soon as there is any degree of perpendicular movement—which is the entire purpose of the swivel mechanism—it becomes sticky and jerky under load instead of rotating freely to follow the movement path.Overall, I feel these issues suggest that the product did not receive enough real-world testing prior to release. Most of these shortcomings would likely have been identified during regular workout use.To be clear, I am a big fan of Fringe Sport. Nearly my entire garage gym is filled with Fringe equipment purchased either directly from the company or secondhand through marketplace sales. Every other piece of Fringe equipment I own has been excellent. Unfortunately, the Gibbon Arms fall well short of the quality and usability I have come to expect from Fringe Sport products.

These are very flimsy and bent while doing pull downs. All pivots, pins, adjustments are sloppy. These are more inconvenient than beneficial compared to the standard trolleys. Considering the price, I expected much better.

These are very flimsy and bent while doing pull downs. All pivots, pins, adjustments are sloppy. These are more inconvenient than beneficial compared to the standard trolleys. Considering the price, I expected much better.

Every home gym owner is looking for a way to replicate that stretch you find in commercial gyms. The Gibbon Arms give you that ability, but there’s a catch. The outer pulleys do not rotate freely when under tension and the cable ends up getting pinched by said pulleys. This results in an unusable jerky motion. It also will cut the protective rubber sheath of the cable rendering the system useless until you are able to perform a complete cable replacement.After months of tinkering for solutions and cable replacements I am returning the Gibbon Arms. The standard trolleys do not provide the adjustability I'm looking for, but I can at least complete a workout without constantly having to be frustrated by the cable catching on the pulley and eventually shredding.

The gibbon arms is a game changer. It's what I expected and performs justlike a commercial gym version. Since im over 6 foot I now get a fullstretching my lats. Thanks!

I preordered these for a 6 post REP PR-500. When they first arrived, the cables were about three feet too short. I shot an email to the seller and had a reply within an hour and new cables on the way. Customer service is fantastic with this company as far as my experience went. The Gibbon arms aren't perfect but they add a lot of versatility to my rack. Pros:- I can actually do flys on a rack mounted cable system and get a good stretch even though my wingspan is wider than the posts of my rack. - Easy to use and adjust for me. - Not as much wobble as I feared. These are pretty secure. The only wobble comes at the adjustment points as these are mounted to the upright much tighter than my original system due to the rollers.- Give me the ability to add new workouts I couldn't do with the stock REP pulley system.- Seem very strong. I can easily hang on one arm at 200 pounds.- Adjustments up/down of about 32 inches and left/right of about 40 inches is quick and easy for small tweaks mid workout.- Cost. A lot more versatility for a pretty low price compared to what my Athena cost.Cons:- Might be a little heavy for smaller people.- Don't look as clean as the original pieces on my rack, but function over form for me.- Cables aren't as good as the ones REP provided. They have a softer rubber feel vs the harder plastic feel of my old cables. - The pivot point for changing the vertical angle is centered with the center of the pulley at the base of the arms instead of the bottom of the pulley. This causes the cable to get tighter as you angle the arms up and looser as you angle them down. I should have left 2 more inches of cable when I cut them because now, I barely have the bolt at the end of the cable secured in the arms as I cut the cable with the arms tilted down and at the length to have half the bolt threaded.- Occasionally, depending on the angle you are working at, the (sticky soft rubber feeling) cable with bind up in the two pulleys at the end of the arm. I have been using these for about 6 weeks, and I have only run into this a couple of times, and I have been able to compensate by moving the trolley up or down and adjusting the angle of the arm to eliminate the binding.- The handle on the side for moving the trolley up and down feels cheap and is ugly. I am planning to cut it out and bolt in the knurled handles from my REP trolleys on it. I would have paid more for a better handle option. Overall, I am glad I purchased these. They add a lot of versatility but are a little harder to adjust. They are solid, but not very good looking.

What a wonderful addition to my home gym. Now I have a fully functional cable crossover. Installation was not difficult at all. Only problem I ran into was the cables that came with it were too short for my 30-in up front cross members. Fringe has EXCELLENT customer customer service, They immediately sent me another set of cables which fit perfectly. Very happy with my purchase. Thank you Fringe for your impeccable customer service.

What a wonderful addition to my home gym. Now I have a fully functional cable crossover. Installation was not difficult at all. Only problem I ran into was the cables that came with it were too short for my 30-in up front cross members. Fringe has EXCELLENT customer customer service, They immediately sent me another set of cables which fit perfectly. Very happy with my purchase. Thank you Fringe for your impeccable customer service.

Prior to receiving the Gibbon Arms I had adapted the GetRX Tornado Arms to my Dane 2.0. After some workouts with both, I think I only slightly prefer the Gibbon Arms because they are easier to move around and use, but they have some serious shortcomings for how I like to use them, which is for dual, individual handle exercises with some sort of center rack support (either via a bench or rack mounted support). The GetRX Tornado arms seem designed for this within their ecosystem with a center support, while the Gibbon Arms seem primarily designed for free standing wide fly exercises or overhead lat pulldowns. This short-sighted design philosophy really ends up limiting how the Gibbons can be used for a great many exercises. In short, they are about 2-3" inches too long, and this means the arms collide for dual handle exercises at many interior positions. So, while the marketing boasts seven horizontal positions and four vertical positions, about 1/3 of them are completely unusable when the arms are used in tandem for medium to close grip individual dual-handle exercises - that's pretty limiting. In fact, the vertical pop-pin collides with the trolley at the interior 90º horizontal angle making those angles impossible to secure and creates a mechanical pinch point for one's fingers in the design. Unfortunately, the Gibbons don't even work perfectly for lat pulldowns or wide flys because the arms are so long that if you sit on a rack mounted seat, the arms extend behind you, and if you try using the extreme 90º wide positions for fly's on the Dane or Dane 2.0 the cable travel is too short for full ROM (unless maybe you also happen to have gibbon arms, which, at 6'3", I nearly do). A 12" cable extension alleviates this, but that has you questioning why the arms need to extend that far out when rotating them inward achieves nearly the same thing in terms of the functional angle created. In their apparent zeal to replicate a dedicated lat pulldown or the type of dual stack you'd find in a gym, it appears the designer went waaaaay overboard in a way that isn't even completely compatible with the racks it was intended to be mounted on. There really seems to be no practical reason for the arms to be as long as they are when used on the Dane 2.0 for flys, but will work better on other manufacturer's racks with a 2:1 pulley ratio and longer cable travel. There's another questionable design choice which is in the use of 2" pulleys throughout. At the base of the arm this smaller pulley adds a lot of bend to the cable in the upper arm positions and therefore a lot of friction - so, the cable pull no longer feels smooth and increases the felt weight. One can almost excuse the use of 2" pulleys at the end for size reasons, but when pressure is applied to the system the end swivel sometimes tightens down at an odd angle and the cable really starts to drag on the side of the pulley further increasing drag and decreasing the smoothness of the cable pull. It remains to be seen how this will affect cable wear in the long run, but as I can see the cables running over the edge of the end pulleys in some positions, I can't imagine it's going to be good. Overall, I give the Gibbons a 3.5 rating because the trolleys are easy to move and the design has managed to minimize slack/movement in the arms themselves. The install was easy (except for removing the old trolleys which is a bit of work), and Fringe gives the customer everything they need to do it (adapting the GetRX Tornado arms to the Dane 2.0 was a hassle, and not for the mechanically disinclined). For anyone adding Gibbons to their racks they do add a lot of exercise variations that were impossible before, so it's likely a worthy upgrade. If all someone wants them for is lat pull-down and flys, they won't be disappointed. However, the overall design lacks A LOT of imagination as to how they could potentially be used, and anyone who does possess this imagination will find them sadly limiting as they try to explore possibilities that come oh so close to working but not quite as the arms either collide or maybe extend too far away from the rack for use with rack-mounted center support. I believe that simply shortening the arms by 2-3" and using a 3" pulley at the base could have gone a long way toward making the arms a lot more versatile and still pull relatively smoothly within the confines of a rack mounted cable system - this would not have too significantly sacrificed their use for flys or lat pulldowns. If one also examines the vertical pop-pin positions, it also looks as though one more angle could have been squeezed in to make fine tuning the position for some dual handle exercises a bit better.Personally, I wouldn't avoid buying them, but I'm also thinking there will, at some point, be a better option out there that results in a compromise between the too short GetRX Tornadoes, and the too long Gibbons.

Prior to receiving the Gibbon Arms I had adapted the GetRX Tornado Arms to my Dane 2.0. After some workouts with both, I think I only slightly prefer the Gibbon Arms because they are easier to move around and use, but they have some serious shortcomings for how I like to use them, which is for dual, individual handle exercises with some sort of center rack support (either via a bench or rack mounted support). The GetRX Tornado arms seem designed for this within their ecosystem with a center support, while the Gibbon Arms seem primarily designed for free standing wide fly exercises or overhead lat pulldowns. This short-sighted design philosophy really ends up limiting how the Gibbons can be used for a great many exercises. In short, they are about 2-3" inches too long, and this means the arms collide for dual handle exercises at many interior positions. So, while the marketing boasts seven horizontal positions and four vertical positions, about 1/3 of them are completely unusable when the arms are used in tandem for medium to close grip individual dual-handle exercises - that's pretty limiting. In fact, the vertical pop-pin collides with the trolley at the interior 90º horizontal angle making those angles impossible to secure and creates a mechanical pinch point for one's fingers in the design.

Unfortunately, the Gibbons don't even work perfectly for lat pulldowns or wide flys because the arms are so long that if you sit on a rack mounted seat, the arms extend behind you, and if you try using the extreme 90º wide positions for fly's on the Dane or Dane 2.0 the cable travel is too short for full ROM (unless maybe you also happen to have gibbon arms, which, at 6'3", I nearly do). A 12" cable extension alleviates this, but that has you questioning why the arms need to extend that far out when rotating them inward achieves nearly the same thing in terms of the functional angle created. In their apparent zeal to replicate a dedicated lat pulldown or the type of dual stack you'd find in a gym, it appears the designer went waaaaay overboard in a way that isn't even completely compatible with the racks it was intended to be mounted on. There really seems to be no practical reason for the arms to be as long as they are when used on the Dane 2.0 for flys, but will work better on other manufacturer's racks with a 2:1 pulley ratio and longer cable travel.

There's another questionable design choice which is in the use of 2" pulleys throughout. At the base of the arm this smaller pulley adds a lot of bend to the cable in the upper arm positions and therefore a lot of friction - so, the cable pull no longer feels smooth and increases the felt weight. One can almost excuse the use of 2" pulleys at the end for size reasons, but when pressure is applied to the system the end swivel sometimes tightens down at an odd angle and the cable really starts to drag on the side of the pulley further increasing drag and decreasing the smoothness of the cable pull. It remains to be seen how this will affect cable wear in the long run, but as I can see the cables running over the edge of the end pulleys in some positions, I can't imagine it's going to be good.

Overall, I give the Gibbons a 3.5 rating because the trolleys are easy to move and the design has managed to minimize slack/movement in the arms themselves. The install was easy (except for removing the old trolleys which is a bit of work), and Fringe gives the customer everything they need to do it (adapting the GetRX Tornado arms to the Dane 2.0 was a hassle, and not for the mechanically disinclined). For anyone adding Gibbons to their racks they do add a lot of exercise variations that were impossible before, so it's likely a worthy upgrade. If all someone wants them for is lat pull-down and flys, they won't be disappointed. However, the overall design lacks A LOT of imagination as to how they could potentially be used, and anyone who does possess this imagination will find them sadly limiting as they try to explore possibilities that come oh so close to working but not quite as the arms either collide or maybe extend too far away from the rack for use with rack-mounted center support. I believe that simply shortening the arms by 2-3" and using a 3" pulley at the base could have gone a long way toward making the arms a lot more versatile and still pull relatively smoothly within the confines of a rack mounted cable system - this would not have too significantly sacrificed their use for flys or lat pulldowns. If one also examines the vertical pop-pin positions, it also looks as though one more angle could have been squeezed in to make fine tuning the position for some dual handle exercises a bit better.

Personally, I wouldn't avoid buying them, but I'm also thinking there will, at some point, be a better option out there that results in a compromise between the too short GetRX Tornadoes, and the too long Gibbons.

First off let me say the arms are great and Fringe Sport's customer service is top notch (they worked with me on several aspects as I waited for the arms). You'll notice my rack is a REP PR-4000 which means I have 5/8" holes. If I knew the industry would soon be leaving us poor plebs in the review mirror I would have opted for 1" holes in my rack. The lack of a 5 star review reflects my sorrow that Fringe didn't provide an option for 5/8" holes. Everything could have stayed the same expect a different pop-pin (I mean you have to install the pop-pin yourself either way) and housing. I'm using a Fringe Mag Pin to secure them in place and it's working great at this time. I thought it would be annoying but I have no complaints and it's an easy work around for people like me.These are a 5 star product, but the 4 stars in the review is because there is no 5/8" hole option.The arms themselves are great. They are sturdy and super easy* to install. I've already added several routines I couldn't do on my rack before (like a cable preacher curl with the use of my leg roller). The arms don't completely line up at their longest point, but I imagine that's because there are so many moving parts and manufacture error, but this doesn't cause any real effect in function. I also love the black and red colors, matches my set up nicely. I'm also in the basement with 90" ceilings so I had to get an 80" rack, these reach JUST under my ceiling giving me much better range of motion on several exercises (I did have to adjust my lighting).*Because I have a REP Rack and my uprights have a matte finish they are not as smooth and are just a little thicker than a clear coat/stainless racks. I had to get my oscillating tool and a 120 grit sandpaper to shrink the rollers on the back of the arms (a total of 4). But after about 90 minutes of careful work they roll smoothly up and down. They were very tight out of the box.