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)
Sprite

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.

Worst Ski boot = Tecnica (barn door) Icon Alu. Fucking barn door exploded on me in La Grave over 6 months ago. Still re-learning how to walk. When your big toe touches your shin.... NOT GOOD.
Lucky I was on a blue run, and not way out in the BC.

Best... Nordica Grand Prix (black ones) (stiff)

I've been in Nordica's for over 20 years working my way thru GP's, 980's. 981's and next month some new Beasts. My feet like them, I like them. It's been a long time since I've hated boots.

Best - Saloman Course. fit like cement, none of this facking soft boot crap.

Worst - Technica Icon X. It's a good boot just really bad fit for me.


Here's hopeing this years Lange is a good match since I just got it.

worst (looking)- Dolomite Secret Weapons; knee high

Best: Raichle Flexon Pro
Worst: Raichle Flexon Comp (the shin chewers).

Raichle does not know how to market their stuff, naming totally different boots basically the same.

Thermoflexes rool!

Please excuse another journey down memory lane, but...

I still bear the scars of being the last person on the slopes at our local ski hills to be seen in leather, lace-up ski boots. My damn older brother always got the new stuff first, and I had to wait until he out-grew it before I could upgrade.

Anyways, sibling rivalry aside, some of my memorable ski boots over the years:

Lange leather lace ups - Shiny black leather and lace, kind of a weird domination scenario on the ski hill. (Had to clamp those bitches in a boot press when you took them off at the end of the ski day or the soles would warp.)

Nordica bananas - I don't think they were actually called Bananas, but they were some of the original plastic boots and came in a shocking yellow color.

Garmot Ultralights - Kind of like plastic slippers that you wore on the ski hill until your feet got frost bit and turned black (Actually, a much better boot than the easily explodable Scotts that all my friends had.)

Head Air boots - A classic, and I can't believe I threw them out! Super comfy with their inflatable liner that required you to carry a small pump in your jacket whenever you went skiing. Too bad they weighed a ton.

Most incredibly comfortable and high performance boots - That would be my snowboard boots...

Salomon 1080s - Probably the best ski boots I have ever owned, although I really am a cheap shit who could care less about boots and instead blows his money on skis.

Best: Lange AC7s with custom fit orthodocs(sp?) When i bought them they were "tight." The second season I used them they were approaching "race fit."

Worst: Those same Lance AC7s on my third year on them. By the end of my 2 first runs of the season, I had four blisters on my feet. Bought a new pair of Lange L8s that day- nice boots, but not quite the same as those AC7 bastards.

Best AND worst: Raichle Flexon Comps, of the honeybee variety.

Best: Scarpa TRaces after bootfitting

Worst: first year Garmont Squadra