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Are your 28.0 spks too snug?
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My 28.5s packed out to be a bit too wide for me, so I'd love to trade liners! I know it's a long shot, but I figure 28 is a pretty common size, maybe someone got them and they are too small. The shells are the same exact size so we can just keep our own to save a ton on shipping.
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did you get them molded? that could be the problem.
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huh? like did i heat them up and wear them around the shop for a while? No I didn't bother cuz they dont have the heat moldable liners so that just would've accelerated the break in process. I suppose then I wouldn't known sooner that I needed a 28, but I dont think it would've actually fixed my problem. I might try using the original insoles under my superfeet, but I dont think I really have that much extra room so that might be too tight.
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If I'm not mistaken, Salomon uses the same liner size and just a thinner insole for the half sizes, so I don't know that the 28.0 liner is any smaller than the 28.5 liner, try taking up some of the extra room with an extra insole.
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interesting, I thought there was more foam around the whole liner, I guess I'm prolly wrong.
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yup. theres the money. take up some volume in the boot with an extra insole or something. if you are still having problems, visit your shop, you can add material where needed to help. but sounds like the 28 shell is too big.
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That is correct. For a few years they advertised actual half sizes but even then most of us boot fitters were suspect. Today the 28/28.5 are the sme in every respect other than stock footbed thickness.
That means you have a thin stock footbed that made your liner feel a bit roomier than the 28 liner. Which is good because it will probably fit under your superfeet just fine. Remember, too tight is better than too loose unless you are a gaper. You just sold me Ali G dvd's brand new, and this boot has gaper written all over it... Are you a gaper bobaburg?
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haha I'd like to say I'm not a gaper. my last boots were promodels that fit so snug my toes were a little curled up, and I got sick of that so I basically went for the opposite of that, a comfy park rat boot. and by gosh I found it, but it's just a little annoying not having that control sometimes when navigating the ice sheets of new england.
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FYI spk's are heat moldable, did that right after I bought em, might help that or move the teeth so that you can crank down on the boot harder
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Not really, not like a Thermo-flex or Intuition liner, all the heating of the SPK liner does is speed up the pack out process.
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yea.. they aren't actually heat moldable man. If they were they would say it somewhere in all the advertisement material for them. as he said 'heat molding' with boots that arent made for it just helps out with the break-in process.
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hey i just got some spks (27.0) and found after two days they were a little roomie so i went to my shop and coined down on some custom footbeds made such a big difference you still have that cushy park feel but you can actually ski em
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same liners just different insoles, get your shell fit checked out, and then just pack them out, how long have you skied them?, you may need to get you shell pushed out not that hard.
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I got superfeet, which is about as much dough as I can drop on insoles at the moment. I'm pretty sure i'm about done growing though so I think for next season I'll invest in the real deal. superfeet are pretty ill for the money though.
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ya superfeet are the shit, I had a pretty much unbearable pinch on my foot in the boots and I got some superfeet and poof the pain was gone, now my spks feel like sneakers lol
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Try green superfeet, it'll help. They lift you a bit.
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