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My favorite Reeboks which i've been wearing since the middle 80s disappeared from the usual US vendors leading to a personal crisis! But a short while online found the same shoes from a UK vendor and even after the additional shipping they cost less per pair than they would have out the door in the 1980s (and I would have had to drive over and get them). And they got here from some poor unfortunate British hellhole called 'The Midlands' in only 4 days!

All of us are now better off.

Although they included one of those giant coffee mugs with a company logo used by people who drink coffee-colored slop or that nasty 'tea' stuff! I'll go and lose it at work.

yrs,
rubato

My favorite Reeboks which i've been wearing since the middle 80s

Well rube, after 30 years, it was probably time to buy a new pair...

I'll go and lose it at work.

Gee, I sure hope somebody records that and uploads it to YouTube....

Get a room you two, stop teasing each other

I'm surprised that rube would see it fit to wear anything bearing the Union Jack

I dont understand how anyone can buy shoes without trying them first!

I buy shoes on the internet all the time. Each manufacturer has unique "lasts" which determine the general fit of their shoes. If you find a manufacturer whose shoes fit you (for me, New Balance), basically anything in the right size will work.

I wholly agree with the rubato person. I have found many, many, needles in the proverbial haystack by searching the internet over a much broader range than anything I could possibly have done on foot or even by phone. Both of my cars and my motorcycle - all very rare models - have been purchased on line after extensive searches. Often I have found stuff that was long out of production and bought it cheaply, mainly on Amazon-dot-com.

Lord Jim wrote:

My favorite Reeboks which i've been wearing since the middle 80s

Well rube, after 30 years, it was probably time to buy a new pair...

or think about exercising more....

or think about exercising more....

Maybe he only wore them when he was taking those walks with his dog where he allowed the pooch to carry road kill back to his house....

Get a room you two

Sorry Daze, I tried that once...never again...

Rube's a blanket hog, and his feet feet are like ice cubes....

And don't even get me started on the snoring....

Made in Vietnam, per the sticker, and both pairs fit as well as the previous dozens of pairs made in the Pilipines, China, Mexico, et al. I generally buy two pairs at a time, cuts the shipping costs by half. The quality is much improved over the mid-80s, back then the stitching around the toes would tear out before the shoes would wear out elsewhere. Owned by Adidas now.

I bought a pair of Merrill hikers online, fit perfectly.

I'm surprised that rube would see it fit to wear anything bearing the Union Jack

My first professional-quality bicycle was a Raleigh Professional back when Carlton Cycles made their hand-made frames, 1972-3 era. All Campagnolo N-Record parts except the pedals which were the Super-Leggeria. Beautiful. I built my girlfriend a bike on a Holdsworth frame bought here in Santa Cruz.



I replaced the frame with a Keith Lippy custom frame but kept the parts (other than the headset which had been peened so badly that when you stripped the frame you could feel it 'snap' from one set of detents to another, wierd!). Wish I'd kept the frame now. Oh well.


yrs,
rubato

I was a big Adidas Rom fan back in the mid to late 70's. Those were the sneakers I pole vaulted with. They were discontinued at some point and now I get the cheapest pieces of crap sneaker I can. I blow through them in 3-6 months, but at less than $30 a pair, so what.

Made in Vietnam, per the sticker, and both pairs fit as well as the previous dozens of pairs made in the Pilipines, China, Mexico, et al.

So a supporter of slave/child labor are you? How odd for a man with your self-proclaimed "social conscience"....

Why am I not keeling over in a swoon of astonishment...

I'm just shocked that there is a shoe model that has stuck around for 30 years and is still substantially the same shoe. The athletic shoe companies long ago went from a performance focus to a fashion focus (not that you cannot find good performing shoes). This makes it hard to find a replacement for the shoes that you just bought and like. I know some of the model names have stuck around for a long time, such as the Nike Pegasus, but the Pegasus of today has about as much in common with the Pegasus of 1985 as the Toyota Corollas do, but without the improvements in car technology.

As for having a shoe made in Vietnam versus China, I don't know that there is much choice anymore. New Balance held out the longest with being American made, but the last several pairs I've bought were made in East Asia.

Even the gorgeously delicious red cowboy boots I brought back from Santa Fe were made in Mexico . . .

I was made in Canada...

That explains why you're so insufferably polite....

Of course there's one Canadian around here, who apparently didn't get the politeness gene...

keld feldspar wrote:I was made in Canada...

But are you gorgeously delicious?

And more importantly, is there red leather involved (answer carefully, in case I decide to share your response with the Swede)?

There are a lot of things I'm prepared to buy on the internet...(Books, DVDs...a pristine copy of "Holiday Sing-Along with Mitch" ) but I would not buy shoes that way...

It has been my experience, that depending on how the shoe is cut, I can wear anything from a '10" to a '10 and a half' to an 11...

And that may not sound like much of a difference, but as any man can attest, even a half size is a considerable difference when it comes to footwear....

There's no way that I would spend any money on a pair of shoes I hadn't tried on...