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Salomon Boot Laces - They're Rubbish

Re: Salomon Boot Laces - They're Rubbish

Postby arjh » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:11 pm

Pointless Parasite wrote: Double-knotting will help, but you can also loop them around the top guides in the opposite direction so the laces go over and under rather than under and over (sorry difficult to explain in words).


This is good advice.

When using the 'hooked' style of eyelets on boots (rather than the D-rings) always loop down from the top of each eyelet and go all the way round it before moving up the ankle to the next one.

In addition, when tying the first part of the shoelace knot (i.e. the bit that lies flat before you start doing the bow on top) always loop the laces through an extra turn (so it looks like three 'twists' to put your bow on top of instead of two). The extra turn locks off the laces and makes tying the bow much easier even with slippy laces (Scarpa are notorious).
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Re: Salomon Boot Laces - They're Rubbish

Postby SteveNorthumberland » Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:51 pm

I use lock laces off Amazon
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Re: Salomon Boot Laces - They're Rubbish

Postby Alex W » Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:07 pm

I thought it was just me that had to constantly stop to retie my Salamons :lol:
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