Spikes

[Mick Dempsey]

5 hours ago, Mr. Squirrel said:

I had the distels with Velcro upper and lower for about ten years. Bought the carbon click version 5 years ago and never looked back, or regretted it for a moment. 

What the old saying about buying quality footwear and beds?
 

‘If you’re not in one you’re in the other’

 

Ditto for spikes.

Edited 9 hours ago by Mick Dempsey

[kram]

Different kind of spikes...

I've been doing some hedging today, next to an oak, wearing my hedging trainers, they are great for being up a ladder. Every time I stood on an acorn in just the right place, one of these sods was poking through then retracting back into the foam.

 

Three attempts to clean inside before I suspected something in the foam. Pulled about 20 from the right shoe and 3 from the left !

 

Any guess what they are from? Its a few months since I did any spikey hedges or brash dragging in trainers.

Edited 2 hours ago by kram

[flyingjoiner]

Got a pair of Buckingham ones from a mate who decided he didn't like heights for 50quid.

 

Velcro up top, I like, don't like the leather buckles down below, either to loose of to tight

Contemplating getting a spikepod or making up some webbing ones

[Mark Squirrell]

Distel carbons Velcro upper with spikepod bottoms. Couldn’t recommend more

[MattyF]

22 hours ago, kram said:

I wanted to buy branded spikes but the price has doubled in the few years I've been working, I think its a rip off. I ordered these clones. Couple of reciews say they need a sharpen out of the box, replace the plastic tpu bottom straps immediately. The top foam appears comfy, the metal bits are all good.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DHBKQYXW

 

Will be interesting to see if they are not total dog shit… personally I would not look past carbon distils with bottom strap and Velcro  uppers after owning kliens , bashlins, Buckinghams and some awful honey bros early 90’s own brand things.. 

[Mark J]

Spikes will last you a few years. Get the best ones you can afford.

[Mesterh]

9 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

What the old saying about buying quality footwear and beds?
 

‘If you’re not in one you’re in the other’

 

Ditto for spikes.

I think the correct saying is:-

 

Always date twins

 

‘If you’re not in one you’re in the other’