Seriously, the damn things are about a mile long, and even after triple-tying them, they still come undone. Escalante 1.5, Torin 4, it doesn't matter; they all suck. Altra, why do you have to be like this?!
/end rant
Seriously, the damn things are about a mile long, and even after triple-tying them, they still come undone. Escalante 1.5, Torin 4, it doesn't matter; they all suck. Altra, why do you have to be like this?!
/end rant
Shoe laces are like 50c a pair, just buy some new ones. Seriously, why the heck would you continue to suffer over 50 cents?
I don’t know if you’d consider ridiculously uncool, but have you ever seen elastic laces?
I put them in all of my running shoes sometime in the Spring, and i like them!
From what Amazon tells me, there are different versions. I went with the brand that looked the prettiest.
They look, at the same time, very aesthetically pretty / tidy, while also looking 100% nerdy (like velcro sneakers on a mentally challenged adult). :)
No matter the brand, shoe strings suck. So simple, why do all of them mess it up?
Altra regularly does my head in with a lot of things. Inconsistent sizing, sloppy mid-foot fit, etc.
I bought 2 pairs of the Duo early on and they came with ridiculously long, fairly thin round laces. I bought 2 more pair recently after the price came down for certain color ways and those came with wider flatter laces but still really long. The material does seem to have more friction to it though.
If memory serves though, I think the laces on my first pair of Altras (Instinct 1.5) were so short I could barely tie them.
This has been an issue with Altra, I bought 2 pairs of the Escalante racers. Both had different laces and both fit different and the ride in both was different. One pair fit properly the other I had to tighten more. One rode nice and responsive the other is dead in the water non-responsive. I wear a size 10 in the one squared ( I bought a ton of them before they quit making them) and I wear a size 8.5 in the Escalante to get it to fit right. I'm so PTSD of sizing in their shoes I won't buy a pair until I try them on somewhere.
Shoelaces? Really? Get a life, or maybe a dollar or two and buy some laces that you think fir better. If you're really cheap, when you tried them on in the store just ask if they have any they can swap out for them.
Nope, not even a little.
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