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Longevity of Soft Star shoes?

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Rusty Beaver BPL Member
PostedAug 8, 2011 at 8:17 am

I have been eyeballing these shoes for some time…most recently, the Dash. For those using Soft Stars, how are they holding up compared to shoes in the category of those in the trail running genre, like the Salomons for instance?

For what it's worth, I'm just as interested in using the Soft Stars as every day shoes as I am for hiking.

CW BPL Member
PostedAug 8, 2011 at 8:28 am

I've had some Roos for about a year and a half. They have the Trex sole and I've worn holes through that layer. I wore them mostly daily for at least the first year but they were only for town use.

PostedAug 8, 2011 at 10:42 am

I've had my runamocs for about a year and a half… they just got holes in the front where the lether meets the sole (this is probably from kicking things when I walk the rest of the leather looks fine still). I think I can repair it with some pasti dip, or shoe goo…. just make a toe gaurd of sorts with some siliconish material.
the 2mm sole has worn and it's a bit slick for anything with a slope now (though I just did freel peak on sat and it was fine).
I have a new pair with the trail soles now and hopefully they'll last a little longer, but before I got the newer pair, all I had for shoes were a pair of ramblers and runamocs. those 2 shoes were worn for every occasion, ramblers for work and cool weather casual, runamocs for hiking, all my nonbarefoot running, sometimes for work, travel. Sometimes in the summer I wore flip flops, but not much. So as my only too shoes, I'd say they lasted a decent amount of time, longer than normal shoes I've had. I dont' think work shoes, or casual shoes (they have never been the same before) have lasted longer than a year before…. they lasted a lot longer than my former running shoes, that's fo sho.

Rusty Beaver BPL Member
PostedAug 9, 2011 at 7:32 am

Thanks, everyone. I'll be traveling through Corvallis next week so will stop in their store/shop and check these things out!

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