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Kevington wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:58 pm

Canuck wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:52 am

Kevington wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:50 am Nitro really should get rid of the TLS lace thing. Its's shockingly bad for an otherwise solid company. Also the inner harness locked by a bit of hard plastic embedded in the liner was a total disaster for me. That little bit, with the big plastic TLS thing on the shell tongue stacked on top of each other = bleeding shins. Its a shame because their boots are great otherwise.

I had the El Mejor. Really nice leather shell, good liner, air bubble in the sole. Great premium medium to stiff boot. But TLS was just a bunch of strings all over the place and it came loose all the time. Maybe I was doing it wrong. But it seemed like a non-solution to a non-existent problem. The trap of a brand having to have their own version of lacing. Normal laces or BOA kind of covers all needs I think. It’s all personal taste but for me, hard plastic parts anywhere are a potential problem. You put them inside the boot, even more so. Even a great boot with BOA still has a hard plastic part exactly where you push your shin every time you make a toe side turn.

Oh I know which plastic internal piece you’re talking about. I tried on the selects that had it. But I could feel it in the shop.
I don’t think you were doing anything wrong with it coming loose, mine I seem to have to retighten after the first run or two then I’m good for the day. Not sure why that it is though.

Muskrat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:08 pm Played arts and crafts all evening with foam sheets, scissors and duct tape...a few takeaways:
1 - Its remarkable what you can do with some well place pieces of foam to change and customize fit. Side benefit is one more project to tinker with.
2 - Feel is also important, not just fit. For example I've been in Nikes for years now, which have a very solid, very pronounced, almost sharp j bar. I'm used to that really tight clenching feeling around the back of my ankles. I think I've been trying to replicate that, even if the actual heel hold isn't much, if any, worse in practice. Now that I've realized that, I certainly would have looked out for it more in purchasing.
3 - Dialogs are much closer now. Not 100% sold, but it's going to be a short season anyway so I'll ride them out and see what happens.

Happy boot fitting.

kimchi wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:31 pm

SJF_NH wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:01 pm

kimchi wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:31 pm
If you don't already: old liners into new boots, rider them a few days, then new liners into the broken-in shells. Breaking in brand new Adidas is never too bad for me (maybe low-key discomfort for 1-2 days), but the liner trick makes it basically seamless.

I always do this with new boots, sometimes riding the old liners half a season depending on the boot.

Yep, makes life way easier if you stick with the same company one boot to next. Might work between companies, but can get wonky results depending on shell volume.

Only annoyance is I kinda sorta head track how many days I have on a particular set of boots... I can't keep straight when I need to retire liners versus boots as a whole.

spanyard wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:56 amBro I keep a whole Google sheet to track my equipment usage lol