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Stretching booties 23-Aug-2018 At 7:53:35 PM Chloe
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On 22-Aug-2018 Stugang wrote:
>Cheers guys. Ill keep the stretching as a last resort and try miklaw suggestion.
>
>
>I just coughed up for a resole on some old booties that were my go to
>shoes for climbing all day on easy stuff. Ended up with the worst resole
>ever - you guys in Oz don’t know how lucky you are with Big John and Araps
>resole where the folk doing the job understand climbing.
>
>The one guy in Singapore that does it turned my slippers into gum boots
>and placed more rubber over the top of a perfectly good toe cap. Filing
>that shit job back prolly has a better chance of giving me a pair of all
>dayers than stretching my 7.5 bambas.
>
>Cheers stu.

With the likely amount of climbers over there it would seem worthwhile to educate the ‘one guy’ on what’s required, especially with your feedback, so that in future the job’s done correctly?
Then again, maybe the majority of climbers there are of the throw-away, consumer mentality; or gym type wall scrabblers where double rubber toe rands are an asset for shoe longevity!

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