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Stone0826
Jan 19, 2013, 10:19 PM
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Ok I have burned through a few pairs of shoes but when I received my red chili's I was taken back by the quality, they broke in in less than 2 trips and there just an awesome shoe! I've had the corona vcr for a little over a year and I love them. Getting the sizing right was luck but I just converted my la sportiva size and the size I received fit perfectly. I just think its crap that no one else sells them, they're such an awesome shoe. Picking up some matadors next month just to have An extra pair of shoes. I'll repost after the break in is complete. If you haven't tried them... Try em' they're my go to shoe now. I love em' just thought I'd do a new post all the others were from like 2001. I'm not a sales rep, I would really like to see other people give them a shot and expierence a good shoe.
Happy climbing.
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billcoe_
Jan 20, 2013, 2:57 PM
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Stone0826 wrote: Ok I have burned through a few pairs of shoes but when I received my red chili's I was taken back by the quality, they broke in in less than 2 trips and there just an awesome shoe! I've had the corona vcr for a little over a year and I love them. Getting the sizing right was luck but I just converted my la sportiva size and the size I received fit perfectly. I just think its crap that no one else sells them, they're such an awesome shoe. Picking up some matadors next month just to have An extra pair of shoes. I'll repost after the break in is complete. If you haven't tried them... Try em' they're my go to shoe now. I love em' just thought I'd do a new post all the others were from like 2001. I'm not a sales rep, I would really like to see other people give them a shot and expierence a good shoe. Happy climbing.
Meh, looks like every other wannabe climbing shoe out there now. I'm OK with Red Chili products in general, not dissin. For myself, I'd show no love to a product that only lasted 2 trips. I have an old pair of Red Chili Spirits that I had out @ a week back. I bought them in Paris in 2000, so they're 12 years old. They're on their 6th resole, and so oversized I only wear them with socks (wintertime) anymore.
Here they are, center pair, next to the ones I bought my son for Christmas dirt cheap on sale. Same exact model and color of shoe, but old vs new.
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avalon420
Jan 20, 2013, 3:05 PM
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billcoe_ wrote: Stone0826 wrote: Ok I have burned through a few pairs of shoes but when I received my red chili's I was taken back by the quality, they broke in in less than 2 trips and there just an awesome shoe! I've had the corona vcr for a little over a year and I love them. Getting the sizing right was luck but I just converted my la sportiva size and the size I received fit perfectly. I just think its crap that no one else sells them, they're such an awesome shoe. Picking up some matadors next month just to have An extra pair of shoes. I'll repost after the break in is complete. If you haven't tried them... Try em' they're my go to shoe now. I love em' just thought I'd do a new post all the others were from like 2001. I'm not a sales rep, I would really like to see other people give them a shot and expierence a good shoe. Happy climbing. [image]http://www.globetrotter.de/jpg_prod/p/p175884-i126080b.jpg[/image] Meh, looks like every other wannabe climbing shoe out there now. I'm OK with Red Chili products in general, not dissin. For myself, I'd show no love to a product that only lasted 2 trips. I have an old pair of Red Chili Spirits that I had out @ a week back. I bought them in Paris in 2000, so they're 12 years old. They're on their 6th resole, and so oversized I only wear them with socks (wintertime) anymore. Here they are, center pair, next to the ones I bought my son for Christmas dirt cheap on sale. Same exact model and color of shoe, but old vs new. [image]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/500/medium/Red_Chili_spirits.jpg[/image]
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Stone0826
Jan 20, 2013, 3:12 PM
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Well it only took 2 trips to break them in. They're still going strong, sorry if I made that confusing. But I love them, there awesome. And a wanna be climbing shoe? I didn't know there were key points that this shoe failed to meet to make it a legitimate climbing shoe. Looks and works like a climbing shoe, a damn good one at that.
Awesome pic of your old pair, 6 resoles, that's impressive.
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Kartessa
Jan 21, 2013, 12:18 AM
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Funny... I bought a pair of spirits 4 years ago and they lasted less than a month before the leather just started to disintegrate
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Kartessa
Jan 21, 2013, 2:06 PM
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I managed to patent a new move: The Baby Toe Hook
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Kartessa
Jan 23, 2013, 2:01 PM
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billcoe_ wrote: Kartessa wrote: I managed to patent a new move: The Baby Toe Hook If you google that you get: [image]http://www.forwardarch.com/images/bunion2.jpg[/image] and [image]http://www.waltsense.com/storage/articles/20090508_cameltoe_hotwheels.jpg[/image] Pretty graphic in either case but I'm going with door number 2. Hope you took the shoes back.
Unreturnable, considering I bought them while vacationing in Paris.
This is why I'll only get my shoes at MEC now.
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He and I wear the same size shoe, (I'm an 8-1/2 and he's a #9 street shoe) and he brought it back home so I could try it out. Couldn't get my foot in it. Meh. We did a climbing lap and he didn't bring them along cause it were doing multipitch and evidently there that tight on him too. Single pitch tight. 
