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The problem is sometimes this means your foot can slide around.
...Coilers/No Tie shoelaces from...have the site...if anyone is interested.
take out the laces and wash them before a long trip.
sharmuk said:After doing the bow try passing the free ends of the lace under the tensioned lace between the nearest two hooks or D-rings. I do this with both flat and round laces and the friction is usually enough to stop the bow coming undone.
I recall someone posting a couple of good youtube videos demonstrating some lacing techniques, but I also recommend Ian's Shoelace Site, and also the knot tying page from that site. The method @Tia Valeria describes sounds like a combination of the segmented lacing and lock lacing methods described on the lacing page. The knot page describes a variety of secure knots. My personal favourite is called the freedom knot. and it is described on the page.Somewhere on the forum is a thread about tying laces, ...
When tighter lacing and thinner socks cannot stop the problem, there is a point where one would have to conclude that you need to consider a larger size. I have been in this situation where my favourite pair of boots was getting marginal, and even wearing thinner socks, I needed to tighten them before every steeper downhill slope to keep my toes from hitting the front of the shoebox. I have subsequently replaced these with a larger sizeSounds painful and potentially dangerous. Glad to hear you were able to recover and continue. I triple tie my laces so there no hanging laces but still haven't found a perfect formula for lacing that does not cause blisters on my small toes during an extensive and steep downhill hikes.
When tighter lacing and thinner socks cannot stop the problem, there is a point where one would have to conclude that you need to consider a larger size. I have been in this situation where my favourite pair of boots was getting marginal, and even wearing thinner socks, I needed to tighten them before every steeper downhill slope to keep my toes from hitting the front of the shoebox. I have subsequently replaced these with a larger size.
Regards
Now, why did I not think of washing my laces.....by the end of my walk, I found them almost too stiff to pull through the loops, plus, with my arthritic hands, they were so hard to tie up....I have now freed them from the boots and washed them....such a huge difference....smiles.Wash laces so they can slide a little
FWIW, my laces get gunked up with shoe cleaner and dirt, and then they don't slide readily in the little D-rings on the boot.
I find this not only makes the laces harder to tension correctly when putting the boots on, but it also makes the whole binding too inflexible while walking over broken terrain. I like to have some "give" in the binding.
So I take out the laces and wash them before a long trip.
Regards
Bob M
Thank you sharing these. Other than one point on which they contradict each other over how to tighten 'lock lacing' (which is incorrectly called a sherpa knot in the first video if you follow the nomenclature on Ian's Shoelace site) they usefully demonstrate or discuss several useful techniques. I prefer the lock lacing technique demonstrated in the second video, ie pull the laces towards the front of your foot first. If you then find the opposite laces meeting in the middle, then pull back towards you heel to pull out some of the slack and then pull towards the front of your foot again.Here are two lacing videos on boot lacing from REI.
As for laces, you can take a spare pair with you and use them as a cloths line. Then you have the spare pair in case you break one on your boot, or so you can wash a pair and let them dry through the day. Remember, a wet pair of laces will tighten up as they dry and a dry pair will loosen up as they get wet, so you need to be aware of how you boot is fitting throughout the day and adjust as you go.
Great video, but the resulting knot is not secure. The knot collapses if just one end is pulled, and offers no special resistance to that, just like the knots demonstrated in the REI videos.http://www.wimp.com/shoestie/
This may help in keeping the laces secure
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