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- From: tovey@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Gadget)
- Subject: Re: high end climbing shoes
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:28:12 GMT
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- mcrk@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Matt McCormick) writes:
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- >shoes. 5.10 does not have the best quality or the most durable shoe around
- >but their rubber is obviously very good and I think that their shoe designs
- >are very good. It is too bad they can't improve their quality control. It
- >is amazing to me that a $130 pair of shoes will really last no more than a
- >season or two of hard climbing. So what are people's ideas about shoes of
- >this sort?
- >
- It seems to me that the better rubber'ed shoes you buy, the faster they
- wear (like tyres). I think that this is probably just a fact of life! I
- recently bought a pair of Dolomites slippers which also have reasonably
- sticky rubber, and they are also of fairly low quality (stiching splitting
- etc). Maybe the manufacturers aren't too worried since the soles wear so
- fast...
- Gadget
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