[tomtom]

Anasazi vcs's in all sizes on decathlons website for £79..

[Grubes]

just spotted this on rock+ run £49 for 5ten project http://www.rockrun.com/products/Five-Ten-Project.html

[TobyD]

just spotted this on rock+ run £49 for 5ten project http://www.rockrun.com/products/Five-Ten-Project.html

i saw this too.... so anyone tell me what size proj / hornet to go for if i am a 6 in velcros or blancos and a 7 in dragons?

[Paul B]

Can't help with sizings but the projects had a weird fit. If you get on with Jet7 type shoes you'll be ok but personally they didn't fit well at all.

The hornets are VERY soft.

Bananafingers have a shoeculator which suggests adding 1 size (so 7) for the hornets. It doesn't seem to cover the projects.

[Richie Crouch]

If its any help Toby, I wear:

Anasazi 8, dragon 8.5/9, hornet 8.5, project 8.

[andy_e]

All in the same session usually too 

[andy_e]

Evoffov Puntas £50 at Cotswold! Just ordered mine 

[slackline]

Lots of deals on shoes at Rock and Run in their end of summer sale at the moment.

[andy_e]

I think they're doing free express delivery too at the moment!

[shark]

Quick plug for our lovely sponsors:

https://www.theclimbingdepot.co.uk/shop/department/footwear/rock-shoes

Most are discounted including Scapa Vapour at £65

[Paul B]

Quick plug for our lovely sponsors:

https://www.theclimbingdepot.co.uk/shop/department/footwear/rock-shoes

Most are discounted including Scapa Vapour at £65

am I being stupid here, they look to be 94.99?

[slackline]

Quick plug for our lovely sponsors:

https://www.theclimbingdepot.co.uk/shop/department/footwear/rock-shoes

Most are discounted including Scapa Vapour Slipper at £65

am I being stupid here, they look to be 94.99?

[shark]

Quick plug for our lovely sponsors:

https://www.theclimbingdepot.co.uk/shop/department/footwear/rock-shoes

Most are discounted including Scapa Vapour Slipper at £65

am I being stupid here, they look to be 94.99?

 

Slippered up there

[weakdave]

20% off all shoes at climbnewcastle.com. Boostics for 88quid!!!

[rodma]

This is obviously out of most peoples' way, but on a rainy rest day in paris yesterday, i picked myself up a pair of solutions and a pair of boostics (which scarpa uk said don't come in my size), both at relatively low prices. they also have a shoe sale on on the 13th October, but I'd imagine there'll be limited stock in various sizes. On previous visits to said shop, I had found the prices to be a little on the high side, but they seem to be competing with even Decathlon on price.

solutions

poohstics

They certainly had more size options left in stock than any uk company as far as boostics go and definitely had solutions to fit people with normal sized feet.

[tomtom]

I picked up a pair of Anasazi Velcro's from the shop at the Logport wall last week for £85... not a bargain, but as bout as cheap as you see them...

[slackline]

20% off all shoes at climbnewcastle.com. Boostics for 88quid!!!

Damn no shoe in my size for my prefered model, would have been a great saving.

[rodma]

20% off all shoes at climbnewcastle.com. Boostics for 88quid!!!

Damn no shoe in my size for my prefered model, would have been a great saving.

It seems like most walls/shops only got 1 pair in each size to start with. i don't understand wtf scarpa are playing at. I'm just fortunate that i got hold of lots of pairs of stix (thanks iain, springer), but i've needed a stiff shoe for about 8 months now.

[slackline]

I wasn't after the Scarpas (of any model).

[rodma]

I wasn't after the Scarpas (of any model).

Yeah, well that doesn't change the fact that i ignored 

[Drew]

It seems like most walls/shops only got 1 pair in each size to start with.

Not every shop 

Thing is though, if a shop is looking at spending a grand, just to get one of most sizes of one single model and more like 2 grand to get a reasonable stock (every size, double on popular sizes, triple on very popular), more expensive models obviously would cost even more than that, plus the VAT, would a shop/wall choose to spend 20k on 10 models and good stock quantities, or 20 models but having to reorder more regularly?

As a customer would you rather shop somewhere showing 10 models or 20? More choice right? And shops still have to sell most models at a discount in order to sell any. Shops still have to buy them in at the same price. I honestly don't know how anyone makes any money in this business.

Sorry... think I went off on a tangent there.

[rodma]

Tbh i'd be happy with less choice, since most of the different models just seem to be manufacturers unneccessarily reinventing the wheel. I don't expect every shop to carry the same stock.

I appreciate that it is a large initial financial outlay for a shop or wall to get in decent stock. Really i'm annoyed with the manufacturers for being more than a bit crap recently when it comes to supplying their performance shoes to the uk.

It would be interesting to do a ukb poll to see what shoes they would buy if they could get hold of them. I appreciate that this would not cover entry level shoes, but still might be of interest to see how many different models are actually in demand.

[tomtom]

OK, so lets set up a poll... find out what peoples present favourite (as in presently available) shoes are.. if we get an idea of the popular ones from different brands here these can then be plugged into a UKB poll..

I know nothing about other brands as I'm a 2 horse 5:10 person.. so for me its

Anasazi Velcro's
Dragons

[SamD]

I agree. Some decisions made re: choosing to import or not import certain models seems idiotic. I for one love la sportiva cobras. Favourite shoes are cobras, speedsters, anasazi LVs. Not tried the futuras yet but am quite keen - my speedsters have been excellent - and also lasted longer than any other pair of shoes i have owned - 18 months pretty much continuous use and still going.

[galpinos]

OK, so lets set up a poll... find out what peoples present favourite (as in presently available) shoes are.. if we get an idea of the popular ones from different brands here these can then be plugged into a UKB poll..

I know nothing about other brands as I'm a 2 horse 5:10 person.. so for me its

Anasazi Velcro's
Dragons

I was:

Scarpa Stix - Lime + Indoors
5.10 Velcros - Everything Else

I'm now down to just velcros as my last pair of Stix went walk abouts.