this is completely accurate from the climbing side too
Good thing that all the engineers and designers who got frozen out kept their great manufacturing relationships and started a new company, UnParallel
u right. there’s a pair of new ones on ebay for $80 BIN with free shipping. think i’ll just scoop a pair. should get me through a couple more years.
i bought my current pair of freerider pros in 2018 and based on strava, estimate i have over 8,000 miles on them. so another pair should get me through some miles…
Actual injuries and also just stupid scratches and grazes and cuts from both pedals and objects that get churned up when ripping down a hill.
The only UP shoes I’ve seen in the wild were samples at Sea Otter a couple of years ago.
Oh my God it’s my time… Hey just make your own shoe, what it do. Free your cleats from tryanny. https://www.marcsist.com/case-n-plus
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Time to dip your toes into RC or Big S?
RC doesn’t make my size in women’s shoes 
I dunno, I checked reviews again, and it looks like still nothing is touching five ten for grip.
Wtf, that’s some bullshit sizing thing…
Dang, you tinier than a 5? Oh, or more the 10 side.
Sup has really tall instep, so some women’s shoes don’t fit that great (like the womens hellcat pro, where she couldn’t even close the velcro as they made it really small). So she likes the colors, but half don’t fit her worth a damn.
The Michelin or Vibram rubber don’t come close to the Stealth rubber.
Supposedly, the UP rubber is pretty close to Stealth.
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Man the Stealth shit on big pins once you drop off a couple things. Like stepping up out of peanut butter mud.
I wear a women’s 11/eu 43. Pretty common size for women of my height (5’10 plus maybe a quarter inch). Standard women’s shoes go up to 12 usually and lots of sports shoes stop at 11, but for someone reason some companies stop at 10 (salomon does this with all their women’s boots and it sucks. Their running shoes go to 12).
yeah I’ve heard that about the lifestyle/cycling stuff. wonder if it’s just supply chain issues? climbing stuff is not vaporware though, I have personally gone through 2 pairs of UP climbing shoes and loved them both as much as my old 5.10s
So are these vaporware then?
I’ve got like a year or 2’s worth of shoes stockpiled so I don’t need them to be available right now, but it would be nice to have an alternative to Five Ten
The Northwave Clans’ soles are exceptionally grippy. About as close to 5.10 Stealth that I’ve tried. Pedal feel isn’t great, though.
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I’m late to this as always, but my experience with casual clippy shoes is that they are just bad at everything. They don’t feel good clipping in because they aren’t stiff, they don’t walk well because they are stiffer than normal shoes, they look like weird orthopedic shoes because the soles are too thick and the styling is this uncanny valley of “normal shoe looks” where it just is…off. Nobody is going to see you in these and think you are any cooler or more chill than if you just showed up in regular clippy nerd shoes, IMO.
For commuting I just leave an old pair of vans at work for the days that I feel like riding my Traffic in, then I just ride flat pedals on my main commuter and around town bike.
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I’ve been really disappointed in the grip of my Five Ten Sleuths, even with new aggressive pedals. Think my blown out vans stick better.
Anybody planted on these Eclat bmx pedals? Looks wide as and I wonder what its like
oh, I’m into those.
Am I correct that the platforms are offset (fore/aft)?