 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi!
I've started hunting for the summer sales of boots and as in sales, variety isn't big  . Fortunately, the ones I've mail ordered are almost perfect, just few millimetres short. I would return them and order half size larger, but after I've taken a look I've found something worrisome. The sticker on the box says it's 26, while on the shell there is 26/26.5 embossed and on the liner 26-27.5. Does it mean that 26.5 will be virtually the same boots and 27 will have 1 cm larger shell but the same liner?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have the same issue, damn sales.
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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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Variety, price, fit
Pick two of the above, you generally can't have all three at this time of year
Shell size is 26.0 /26.5 the liner is a 26.0 /26.5 just the component you looked at (probably the plastic panel round the back of the liner) is used for a number of liner sizes
A 26/26.5 boot should have that size liner, a 27/27.5 shell will have a 27/27.5 liner
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| just the component you looked at (probably the plastic panel round the back of the liner) is used for a number of liner sizes |
That explains a lot, thanks!
Just to clarify, so 26 and 26.5 is the same boot as well as 27 and 27.5?
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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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Yep. A sound marketing ploy(con) half size boots.........
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Kot, ...what make are they? Atomic sizes are a bit weird for example. I take a 26-26.5 shell in Salomon, but the same in Lange doesn't fit (too small) and I need a 25.5 shell in Atomic, since instead of going 26-26,5 they go 25.5-26. Perfectly normal, but you need to understand the idiosyncracies.
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| valais2 wrote: |
| Kot, ...what make are they? Atomic sizes are a bit weird for example. I take a 26-26.5 shell in Salomon, but the same in Lange doesn't fit (too small) and I need a 25.5 shell in Atomic, since instead of going 26-26,5 they go 25.5-26. Perfectly normal, but you need to understand the idiosyncracies. |
that sizing issue only applies to the B tech boots in the atomic range
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You should never buy boots by mail order - big mistake
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CEM, ...I thought it affected more than just the B techs, but I defer to SFF...
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| valais2 wrote: |
| CEM, ...I thought it affected more than just the B techs, but I defer to SFF... |
it is only the B tech boots and this was due to a bit of a "mistake" when the boot was designed many years ago, there are a couple of other oddities in size split amongst some touring boot models but not anything else from atomic
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