Favorite AND most hated BOOTS of all time

Fav - SX91 equipe

Most hated - Orig. Lange (Black foam freakin things) I still have scars and indentations on my shins!

My favorite boots are the ones I have now....Atomic Beta Races.

Worst boot were my racing pair back in the day....Lange X9 or something like that. World of pain, Donny.

Favorite boot - The Salomon 1080s I currently use.... now featuring [/dadada dada] rivets.

Worst pair - My first pair ever - Salomon &(^$ or something. All I know is that they were rear entry and rental worthy.

Current Lange L10's are my faves.

Had a pair of Dynafit boots that hurt so bad...just sheer blinding white-hot agony by the end of every run. That sucked.

Ive hated all the boots Ive ever had and Ive been skiing since I was a lil rugrat...

Currently I have the Lange Banshee's and their "OK"..

I hear the 1080's are pretty comfy tho..

I wore $75 low-end Nordicas that I got at Sports Authority for the last 3 seasons and they were great. I just got brand-new fancy Atomics. We'll see how those compare...
Sprite

Looking for new boots right now.

Worst Boots: Lange TSI (painful memories to the nth degree)

Best: Current Tecnica Icon Carbons w/ Conformable liners

Worst: Raichle flexon comp

Oh...for worst boots: I have no idea what type they were (I think he pain blotted out most of my memories of that day) but once I borrowed my friend's boots b/c I forgot mine at home...after one run I was close to tears. I made it down to the base and literally took those boots off and walked to the lodge in my sox thru the slush and mud. It felt like pure bliss in comparison to the hellish torture chambers that were these boots. They were tight as hell and had areas where the plastic would pinch the bejeezus out of your outer foot and ankles.

Thankfully I had my snowboard gear, so I switched over and did that the rest of the day. I have no idea how this woman was able to ever ski a run in those boots. She must eat bullets for breakfast. (and p.s. her feet are about a size bigger than mine)
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Just bought a pair of '03 X-Wave 10s for $312. Hopefully those will be by new favs.

I hated my cheap Rossi Saltos. I weigh 210 and they were WAY too flexible. I felt like was crushing them.

Favs...my current cutom foamed Solly's.

Most hated...anything by Technica.

current: head 10.5 superheat 3 - purchased in may after my first experience with a bootfitter- ski stop in westwood, ma. the new boots have been comfy all summer long but haven't been skied yet. should be smoove.

worst: salomon force nine boots. super comfy and convenient, but ugly and gasp rear-entry.

Favorites - Dachstien DC tour I owned them & toured in them for 10 years with trouble free warm feet. Then at the age of 32 somehow they became too small.

Hated - Solomon SuX 91 After 2 weeks I traded them straight across for an old but almost unused pair of Lange XLRs. The old style with 4 rivits and none of the microcant adjustment crap. These were my second favorite boots.

Yep the Dynafit red-white ones,och. The Scott boots were like tennis shoes and broke alot. Using a pair of Garmount Steel Beartraps now. Wicked stiff.

had a pair of '90-'91 flexon comps (black & green & purple) that I loved the way they skied-but on warm days my feet would sweat and stretch out the fabric of the liner-the fabric would then bunch up around my heels and I was in agony-Raichle replaced the liners once-but it eventually came back

best-Tecnica TNT Explosion 10

Current: Salomon X-Wave 9s

Favorite: Lange XR Banshees

Worst: Raichle Flexons

Come to think of it, I've only ever owned 4 pair of boots.

current- Solly x-wave 9
favourite (CDN spelling)- Tecnica TNT
worst (not worst performance, but worst fitting for me)- Raichle Flexon Comp. I tired for three years to make that boot work, but the thing just never fit right.

Tecninca xplosion 8s ( on my third pair)

worst Riachle rear entry night mare bright yellow fakkin sniagrab sellin bullshitter :mad: :mad: :mad:

Red Nordica NR-980's -excellent-stolen out of my truck some years back

Favorites Current Nordicas (forgot model- Black and Grey- look a lot like the Grand Prix. w.10?)

Least favorite- the only pair of rear entries I ever owned.

Worst: Asolo Snowfield
Best: Scarpa T1 Race

Favorite - current boot 1998 Lange GX-9
Worst - Hanson VF100 (or something like that). The original rear entry, Darth Vader boot from the early 80's. They absolutely sucked. I still get mad thinking about how much they sucky suck suck sucked!!!

Worst: Hanson Spyders? I think spyders but they were Hanson boots. Had a rubber type liner and I had to spray silicone on the liners to get in the damn things.

Best: My current X-Waves are pretty good, but there were 3 seasons that I loved my Nordica Grand Prix. There were about 2 seasons that I hated them, got too small on me and the shop guy I had been working with said he had stretched them as far as he could.

i have a pair of prototype from technica race dept. the boot was imported by one of the customers at the shop. i think it cost him like a gran to get it. anyway he skied twice and gave it to me. its a one piece of plastic boot. no rivets. no canting. no bending.
skied it once. got some punching done on it and some plastic cuttin. skied it twice. ITS FUCKING STIFF.

Most comfy: Merill singles. Still have them, although I just use them as touring boots now. 20 years.