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My wife bought a new pair of boots on Sunday and has been told to wear them for 30 mins every day for 2 weeks and is essential that this is done to get them right before we go. I now want to buy a new pair next weekend but I work away during the week and can't take them with me. Too many bags on the train. How important is this bedding in process. I can do 4 nights a week but not Mon - Wed. I've read somewhere that wearing at home isn't really necessary. Any views. At the end of the day, I need to buy a pair anyway. I'm going to chamonix but don't want to buy in the resort as this will take up valuable skiing time.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Jonesj,
My God Man! Are You Mad??!
Book yourself in to Sole Bootlab (Chamonix) the first evening of your trip - the boys are usually open until 19h00. It doesn't even take up valuable drinking time as I am quite sure they will be happy to see you arrive with beer.
You realise that people will actually fly out to Cham solely (he he he) just to get boots fitted and then fly home again?
Do not waste the opportunity. Also, getting them fitted on night 1 means that any tweaking can be done during the week. Rather than buying in the UK and finding any tweaking needs to be done after a painful week skiing and you've got home.
And a far higher/better level of fitting, probably.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Mon 13-01-14 15:10; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thanks for this. Are they more expensive in Cham or same price. My wife will love a trip into town to watch me buy boots.
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In answer to the original question. It would help but not it's not a necesity.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Don't walk with the boots, just stand in a natural skiing position otherwise it won't help.
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Maybe I'll just leave her at the chalet to look after the kids when I pop in! Sadly you mentioned all things important to her, cocktails and shopping. Just one thing, you don't work for them, do you? I've found them on twitter so amateur send them a message. Thanks for the help.
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jonesj - get fitted in UK, if you had boots before you know what fits, if you have issues get sorted at Colins of Profeet. Tell your wife to wear her boots until she is bored, better to bed the liners in before you ski - but don't walk in them. Basically the liners in ski boots are pretty poor and the foam will bed in a tad - better to do it in a cold garage than in the house. 30 mins x 14 days = 7 hours is a tad excessive mind.
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I wore mine in the house to help break them in, but I think I must have got bread crumbs in them as the squeking mice have now moved in 
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You need footbeds.
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I skied for 4 years without footbeds and now get on fine with a £27 set of superfeet green and I only ended up getting those when my beginner boots had got a bit big due to liner packing and I couldn't afford a new pair at the time so I got footbed to help take up some volune. I think it depends on your foot whether you need bespoke (bootfitter produced and molded to your foot) footbeds.
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"30 mins x 14 days = 7 hours is a tad excessive mind."
Hmmm, my new liners are on day 6 i.e. hour 42... and are just about ready for some tweaking, maybe.
Jonesj, nope, I do not work for them. I have used them quite a lot though. But don't go by me - loads of people like them on here.
tailskidder, "if you had boots before you know what fits" - pish! Most people have no idea what fits, whether they've had boots before or not. And who are "Colins of Profeet"? I take it you mean Colin (aka CEM) at Solutions for Feet, and/or Profeet in Fulham? Certainly CEM is worth a shot if the OP has time to get to Bicester. I am not so sure about Profeet myself...but my somewhat variable experience was 10 years ago... I'd say again tha tbeing in resort, where the lads can sort out any issues as they happen, seems like the way forward to me.
Megamum, yeah, well, maybe, maybe not. I can't wear boots without them and my feet aren't that weird. Mind you, my boots fit properly... You do what your boot fitter tells you.
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I'd second under a new name - if you're already going to Chamonix to ski, and need boots, go to SOLE. They can fit you in the evening so you miss no ski time, you can bed them in properly on the hill, and have them tweaked in the evenings straight away if you need. It would be the best way to get a perfect fit for your holiday and after.
Disclaimer - I haven't personally had boots fitted by them yet, but will as soon as my current boots or just liners need replacing, likely later this season. They did a great job sorting out bindings for my new skis a few weeks ago, and my housemate and several very good friends have had boots fitted there with excellent results. They are first choice for everyone I ski with in Geneva and Cham, and great guys to have a drink with too!
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Cheers everyone. I'm driving over and should be there early enough on Saturday to get a pair. I'll give them a call and if they're open late enough I'll go there. Only 6 weeks to go
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You know it makes sense.
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Jonesj, do that. It's a good 90 minute process though, so take beer. They seem reasonably beer agnostic...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Jonesj, do that. It's a good 90 minute process though, so take beer. They seem reasonably beer agnostic...
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or just wander around shopping in Eric Bompard, Chanel, Lacoste, Swarovski, etc. That may be more painful than the cost of new boots 
