Highlights on the laces and a heel logo make it more appropriate for riding than their regular fucking shoes? Shit's dumb.

zelah:

like honestly who has saddle bags

Half of Portland.

I just got a new pair of eras and i'm considering filing a little slot on the sole. my last pair developed one from the pedals and it was fucking great

yonderboy:

zelah:

like honestly who has saddle bags

You and MIN will get along nicely. With pockets full of shit.

i have a bag and a fannypack, the fuck you know about fannypacks

cause he assumes if there's no saddle bags my pockets are full of shit

Dear Zelah,
Fixed gears are now what you would call 'popular'.
When things get 'popular', other things called 'businesses' try to cash in.
The existence of the Vans shoe is merely a reinforcement of fixed gears growing mainstreamization.
kthxbai

Haha, it's like, don't be surprised. It's been happening for years :)

They should have made matching top tube pads. Would have been half as useful and been twice as successful.

stumptown:

Dear Zelah,
Fixed gears are now what you would call 'popular'.
When things get 'popular', other things called 'businesses' try to cash in.
The existence of the Vans shoe is merely a reinforcement of fixed gears growing mainstreamization.
kthxbai

Accusing Vans of cashing in on bike culture is ridiculous.

Anyone who had a BMX bike in the 80s had Vans. I know Bianchi Pistas are the new GT Performer, but I can't find an analogy for how banal this is.

yonderboy:

Anyone who had a BMX bike in the 80s had Vans. I know Bianchi Pistas are the new GT Performer, but I can't find an analogy for how banal this is.

That was then, this is now. Why else would Vans be calling their shoe the fixed gear model and be marketing it with a saddle bag?

i think that the clipless would be sick

Ryan:

i think that the clipless would be sick

I want to agree with you...but it's not like you can really wear those around after you get off your bike. Even with cleat covers, clipless shoes suck to walk around in. Are the cleats going to be easily removable, maybe?

yonderboy:

If they do it like the 661 shoes, you'll have to cut the rubber out of the bottom to mount the cleat. The old Vans were SPD compatible 2-bolt.

But what is the advantage of wearing a regular Vans shoe that is set up as a clipless shoe with cleats? Just the way it looks? I would think it would be so you didn't have to change back into your sneakers...but if it is just as difficult to walk around in...

IMHO aint nothin sexier that a pair of Sidis.

Gilly:

IMHO aint nothin sexier that a pair of Sidis.

Mmmhmm, especially old school ones. I'm thinking about taking my speedplay cleats off of my Performance Cat-1s and putting them on my SIDIs.

this whole time i thought everyone was looking at my sidi dominators in disdain.

Sk8 ftw.

Oooooo shoez

all jokes aside. those shoes are fucking lame

krystenr:

stumptown:

this whole time i thought everyone was looking at my sidi dominators in disdain.

Seriously? That shit is fly!

i think the fratties on campus get offended when they here the "CLOP CLOP CLOP" sound the shoes make when you walk, look back expecting to see an attractive female in high heels, only to discover some sweaty bike dude with his pants rolled up.

Haha. Oh, Greg. I sort of have an obsession with Authentics... that being said, I really dislike Eras.

Don't those cover the cleat portion that clips into the pedal, the brass piece? The noise is coming from the "soccer" cleats on the soles that are designed to cut through dirt since Doms are mtb shoes...

i gots doms too, two perr! aint no cleat covers for them shits.

Man I love me some Doms outside of the fact that they catch me looks from non-cyclists. They're RUGGED as hell, I've crashed on gravelly, slippery pavement enough times that they should be shredded, but the fake leather just shows surface marks. Sidi offers lifetime repair I hear, too, just in case.