$169.00 · Listed and priced at $169.00 on Dialed Motion's own store but not orderable, re-verified Oct 5, 2026. The only buy control is a visible button with disabled:true, and it now carries a specific date - "PREORDER 10/20", where the Sept 26 check read "PREORDER OCT '26". JSON-LD publishes schema.org/OutOfStock and the store's product data reports available:false. The gating is catalogue-wide rather than specific to this product: all 16 products on the store render the same "PREORDER 10/20" control under a site-wide banner reading "Next Preorder 10/20/26 9am PT", so nothing on Dialed Motion is buyable today.
A ratchet-based cable retractor sold as a standalone component rather than inside a finished machine. The brand's framing is explicit: "To allow you to design your own cable systems, we decided to make each of our components available separately." It keeps the cable tensioned, makes height adjustment quick, and extends the cable to other accessories with the flip of a switch.
Published specifications for the 2.0: product weight 3.75 lb, dimensions 7.5 x 5.75 x 1.875 in, retractor cable length 21 ft, Maximum Working Load 200 lb, statically tested to over 1,200 lb without failure. What's included is one retractor and nothing else. SKU CR2.
What the 2.0 changes over the 1.0, in the brand's own words: a removable cable ball end that "can be removed with an Allen key, allowing the cable to pass through rack holes and small openings", and a thinner cable — outer diameter reduced from 4.0 mm to 3.5 mm — for flexibility and less resistance in longer or more complex routing.
Two generations are listed at once. The Cable Retractor™ 1.0 (SKU F10001, $135.00) is still on the store, and its specifications panel publishes an older figure, "Weight Capacity: 300 lbs", with none of the 2.0 page's Load Rating & Testing explanation. The 2.0 page states the reconciliation directly: "Earlier versions of this product page referenced higher load capacities based on our internal static testing. As our testing program has evolved, we have adopted more conservative working-load ratings based on applicable ISO stationary training equipment safety factors and endurance testing." The 200 lb figure is the brand's current rating; the 300 lb figure is the one it says it has moved away from.
The compatibility note is the part to read before ordering, and the brand states it plainly: the retractor is designed to mount to Dialed Motion's own Load Pin or Trolley. Using it with equipment outside that system requires a Carabiner Adapter or a Threaded Adapter — separate purchases the headline price does not include. All four exist on the store: Carabiner Adapter $15.00, Threaded Adapter $29.00, Load Pin 2.0 $45.00, Trolley 2.0 $269.00.
Why it matters: The index has been describing this component inside three separate entries while never tracking it. The Multifly entry calls the retractor the mechanism that attachment runs its cable through and notes it "is already being licensed by other home-gym brands"; the REP x Dialed Motion Leg Developer entry describes "using a retractor for fast stack connection". The catalog was using a product as a reference point for other products without carrying it.
It also answers a question the index keeps circling — whether cable resistance is an accessory purchase or a rack purchase — with the cheapest published figure in that space. The honest version of that answer is the one the brand's own compatibility note gives: $169.00 buys the retractor, and the retractor does nothing without the rest of the system. A minimum working setup adds a Load Pin at $45.00 or a Trolley at $269.00, or an adapter for third-party equipment.
Watch for: Nothing on this store can be bought today - the whole 16-product catalogue is preorder-gated behind a stated window of 10/20/26 9am PT, so the date to act on is the window, not this product.
The Cable Retractor 1.0 this entry used to compare against has been delisted. The previously recorded "superseded 1.0 still listed separately at $135.00 against a $169.00 compare-at" is no longer true and the $135.00/$169.00 pair no longer exists anywhere on the site. Absence verified three ways on-domain on Oct 5, 2026: /collections/all returns 16 items with no 1.0, the on-site search for "cable retractor" returns 7 results with no 1.0, and /products.json?limit=250 returns 16 products with exactly one title matching retractor - the 2.0. So there is no longer a cheaper older version to fall back to.
This brand's figures required two consecutive daily checks before being treated as real, after a price evaporated inside 24 hours in August. That condition is now satisfied and the caveat is cleared: $169.00 has held in Dialed Motion's own product data on seven consecutive daily reads, Oct 3 through Oct 9, 2026, with compare_at_price null throughout and no checkout discount - a three-layer test on Oct 5 (rendered, deep-DOM including shadow roots, and raw HTML) returned zero occurrences of every discount phrase tested. Treat $169.00 as the brand's real published figure. What remains unresolved is not the price but the purchase: the single buy control has been visible and disabled since Oct 3, and schema.org/OutOfStock and available:false have agreed with it on every one of those seven reads.
