WIN Free FiveTen Shoes From Chain Reaction

These used to be neon yellow and kept water out, still comfiest pair though.

Bike Park Wales last Sunday wasn’t kind to them.

Three levels of Specialized… still wear them all. The red ones are probably past it to be fair.

Even Evo Stick can’t help me anymore

Changed the cleats, but that does nothing for the smell

These two pairs of shoes have been loved.

My lake shoes have now been retired to roller duty. They fell apart on a ride. They were repaired with zip ties mid ride. Then glued and zip tied when I got home. That was a few years ago and still going strong.

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My other pair are Scott heater boots from a psa on here years ago. I liked them so much I bought two pairs. The sole has started to come off after pushing over the big pass on the badger divide. Keep meaning to fix them.

https://postimg.cc/CBZmrQ4R

Still plenty of life left in these

My old 5/10’s still going strongish after at least 10 years thanks to CT1 adhesive. Winning Dirtiest Rider prize here a few weeks ago!

 

There are some mightily impressive shoes out there in this thread! Apart from the soles on my shoes, externally they appear to be ok, but inside I’ve rotted them…nothing to see until you start removing bits to get a good look inside the shoes.

I’m very impressed at some of the battle scars these shoes are carrying around though.

I think these have been used by 3 members of the family now. Pictures don’t do justice to how thin the soles are now and that hole is all the way through to your socks.

My Teva Links have been serving me well for almost 10 years now – but their waterproof feature is sadly no longer.

The bad pairs are at home so I can only send what I’m wearing now

I can’t even afford bike specific shoes (reaches for the tissues).

I honestly can’t work out why these are no longer waterproof.

These are my original pair of 5:10’s with the classic “new ventilation”…

Still rocking my old Greg Minnaar shoes after years (do they even still make them?) even though I’m back to riding flats nowadays. Although they do let water in through the clear slots and take a while to dry.

Still rocking my old Greg Minnaar shoes after years (do they even still make them?) even though I’m back to riding flats nowadays. Although they do let water in through the clear slots and take a while to dry.

I’ll post a pic of mine when I get home but after looking at some of the biohazards above I reckon mine still have life in them.

I just thank my lucky stars that the Forum Smell-o-Vision implementation didn’t work!

The pin locator hole corresponds with a similar hole in the sole of my foot.

@ADS2910 – Those Tevas are the only shoes that nearly swayed me from 5Ten.

Crumbs there are some trashed shoes.

My Spesh 2fo’s i thought were bad but maybe not.

Lefty not attached to the sole for the first 5cm and after a crash the only replacement boa i could find didn’t match.

Cleats are now proud of the sole so slippery as flip.

Keep meaning to invest in some flats/five10’s.

Not mine but my 12yr old sons shoes. He struggles with shoes and clothes with the fit and feel of stuff so literally wears stuff till they fall off him, can’t be comfy riding a set of flats with these!

Around 8 years old but still wearing them every week.

Looking at the competition I’ve got years left in these!

This would be great timing for a replacement of my now ‘waterproof-sock-required’ soles.

My son’s shoes. He’s a poor student what ain’t got no other shoes to wear. Honest guv.

(anyone know which model of 5-10 the above are??)

Ratchet died a death on a rock recently and now doesn’t work on one side, toe seal has gone and let’s water in, cleats are rusted on solid, back to flats which I have found out leak…love autum

As others have said. I thought mine were bad, until I saw some of the other photos.

Here are my SH-M220 carbons from 2001 or thereabouts

they’re old and knackered but I only stopped wearing them because I’m in worse condition than they are and they are so stiff they were making my feet hurt

Worn but still mostly usable.

I left mine outside to dry, and I think I now need to burn them..

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yes I still use these shoes 🙂 even though you can get your fingers into the soles

https://photos.app.goo.gl/So5QtzGxE99UkopN6

Minging. My lad’s horrible Super-Glue infested things.

Take 2… Trying again after image sharing fail and can’t edit my original post 🙁

My old 5/10’s still going strongish after at least 10 years thanks to CT1 adhesive. Winning Dirtiest Rider prize here a few weeks ago!

2014 vintage vxi elements. Not as element proof now that the soles are through to insole (and are generally half falling off) but the uppers aren’t bad considering the age.

https://i.ibb.co/02y127B/IMG-20231005-211717.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/x8y6Gmn/IMG-20231005-212022.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Kx8D8gG/IMG-20231005-213204.jpg

I left mine outside to dry, and I think I now need to burn them..

Lets try again