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Best cheap shoes/ cheapest acceptable shoes?
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Looking for an extra pair for bouldering while the other pairs get patched. What’s the least expensive shoe that will allow for some edging? A downturn would be nice but I don’t have my hopes up. |
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barefoot. |
Redyns wrote: barefoot. Ok, that’s the low bidder, also the opposite of shoes. Or inverse? Wait, reciprocal..? one of those is belay gloves... |
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While not exactly the cheapest shoe on the market, I bought a pair of Mad Rock Shark 2.0 that I found really cheap, thinking they would be low performance (based on my previous experience with Mad Rock) and just my trash shoes since they were cheap. Turns out, I really like them for gym climbing and bouldering and they're fairly comfortable, at a reasonable price compared to other brands. In terms of price versus performance I was pleasantly surprised. |
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Rock & Snow annex is cheap |
Meow Sherwood wrote: Charles climbs V16 barefoot. |
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Checkout Sierra Trading Post, if they have your size you can usually find cheap shoes there. Sign up for their emails and you can usually get 25% off too (I get a 25% off coupon every friday, saturday, and sunday from them). |
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La Sportiva Cobra. Unless you need a stiffer shoe or extreme heelhooks, you can climb most things in these. |
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Bite the bullet and get a few shoes in rotation. As you wait for a resole on pair #1, break in pair #2. Once you get pair #1 back from the resole, those are your projecting shoes, keep pair #2 nice for the redpoint. Once pair #1 need another resole, get another pair of shoes, break those in. Once pair #1 with resole #2 comes back, those are you gym shoes. Pair #3 is your redpoint. Rotate a new pair in every few months/years. |
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Time to stock up during the next REI Garage sale ! |
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Dunno about USA, but here in Europe that would be (read that as IMHO, please) Ocun. Crest as the go-to cheapo-but-okayish climbing shoe while the new Jett model might perform better when bouldering. |
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ebay |
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I could be talked out of my lightly-used Otakis (Mens 40.5)... |
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Just use eBay, two of my favorite pairs of shoes were $30 from there. |
