When pulled from traffic, Multi-sided systems, do not neatly fold up, in fact they often stay on the roadway, leave debris on the road and occasionally come apart and scatter the sections on the roadway. This is illustrated below, as Multi-sided systems have had a history of deployment officers being struck by pursuit officers, as officers enter the roadway to recover the system.

Multi-Sided systems need a sleeve for safety. The sleeve holds the 3 foot Spike Strip sections. Some designs, use NO SLEEVE, these should be avoided. Sometimes, these systems are deployed in a fashion called Singular deployment. In the tabs labeled Singular Deployment and Cord Reel failure, we discuss the safety issues in greater detail, with training solutions

Spike Belts design is superior, our curved edges are designed to float over a curb, and not stay on the road. Our system is made of tough ballistic nylon, designed not to come apart in traffic and dump the Strips. We use a 360 handle designed to grab from any side, so your officer wastes no time in deployment nor retrieval. Our winder system is much simpler, and can be deployed much further with less effort. Spike Devil has taken the measures to make Spike Belt much simpler than other multi-sided systems and as safe as accordion type systems.

Our spike is one piece, and its tightly fitted in the foam Strip, The Strip has a top and bottom corrugated carton panel designed to hold the spike if it is pushed through, but not picked up by the tire. We use a plastic tube bag designed to protect the contents from the weather. Notice our handle wraps around the sleeve and is accessible from any angle, this makes Spike Belt easier to grab and retrieve or deploy.

Cord-reel problems: The Cord reel has to be opened to deploy, then closed to adjust on the roadway, opened up to seek safety, closed again to recover. All these actions are in seconds, and the leading cause of why officers grab the cord, elevate the cord, to snag cars, and struggle with the deployment process. All this due to a cord reel being locked up, or to complicated to function. When they struggle they remain dangerously close to the curb, susceptible to a deployment where a system is torn, and they enter to recover spikes, and many other issues.

Trooper Kilgrow, used a Stick and a wound up cord, this cord lays on the roadway, and was designed to be handled, low close to the surface, and only for moving the system. In the photo above notice the Accordion systems deployed and cords are laying on the surface and the officers not visible. We have added the loop winder design to all our products, due to its speed and safety. Winders like these do not use a crank that has to be handled, and the officers has to think. The cord lays on the roadway, and we feel this will make for the safest multi-sided system on the market.

Accordion systems can be re-used many times, and some can be converted into a trainer by pulling Spikes. Our Spike belt, unlike lesser Multisided designs, can be re-purposed as a trainer so you don’t lose your investment. We did this by using a foam core, that goes back to its original shape, and allows for multiple hits. We think training is a very important part for officer sucess and we made the Spike Belt to be re-purposed after its use, as a trainer model. simple pull the spikes out, and mark the unit as a trainer with a special patch that is velcroid to the system.heavy duty and tight fitting.