Daleboot OR traditional boot with Zipfit liner / punch for 6th toe.

[Dave Petersen]

$50 is a very good deal for custom footbeds. Is it just an initial "deposit," or the full amount?

I'm assuming they come back "posted." Your assumption too? How rigid did they feel once shaped?

Total cost is $139 plus shipping (initial deposit is $50). They should arrive later this week.

 

[Tricia]

Did you do a write up on this that I may have missed? I’m going to use the good juju from the Mother’s Day ski and purse purchase to get myself in new boots.

I haven't done the write up yet. We have to finish the set up.

 

[bigskymtnguy]

I've sold DaleBoot and had hands on since the 80's. I personally have skied the same pair for the last ten years. I usually don't ell DaleBoot to skiers with very narrow feet. I recommend you go with a Custom Fischer Vacuum boot with narrow last, new custom footbed, and possibly replace the stock liner with Intuition. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Dave Petersen]

I've sold DaleBoot and had hands on since the 80's. I personally have skied the same pair for the last ten years. I usually don't ell DaleBoot to skiers with very narrow feet. I recommend you go with a Custom Fischer Vacuum boot with narrow last, new custom footbed, and possibly replace the stock liner with Intuition. Just my 2 cents.

I have a really narrow foot.

Anxious to read a write up of Daleboot.

 

[LiquidFeet]

An instructor friend of mine with narrow feet went the Daleboot way two years ago. He ended up sending them back. They honored the return. The boots were too wide.

What surprised me was that neither the bootfitter involved in brokering the order nor Daleboot themselves, after reading my friend's measurements, bothered to inform him that the boots would inevitably be too wide for a performance fit. Daleboot should have known when they got the measurements. The bootfitter should have informed them that this buyer was looking for a performance fit to solve numerous problems he'd lived with in previous boots.

Daleboot, if they were paying attention and if they cared, should have responded with an evaluation of how well the boot would conform to a "performance" fit before filling the order. I don't know where the communication broke down. Prior to that I had read that Daleboot could fit wide feet but not narrow feet. Since his experience I'm convinced it's true.

 

[Dave Petersen]

Well I have a few weeks to kill after having unplanned retina surgery. I’m past being in the confined to bed for 10 days phase, and can move around now but I can’t do anything too physical. Also I can’t do too much computer work until my vision returns.

SO, to help pass the time I decided to try an at home foot bed kit. Kind of fun - first phase came in the mail today and I heated them in the oven to conform to my foot. I just sent them to FOOT DYNAMICS in Boise to be finished. I’ll let you know how they turn out.
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The final product a week later.

 

[Wendy]

I have Zipfits from a previous boot, but they did not fit into my Technical Mach1’s. I was really bummed.

 

[James]

An instructor friend of mine with narrow feet went the Daleboot way two years ago. He ended up sending them back. They honored the return. The boots were too wide.

What surprised me was that neither the bootfitter involved in brokering the order nor Daleboot themselves, after reading my friend's measurements, bothered to inform him that the boots would inevitably be too wide for a performance fit. Daleboot should have known when they got the measurements. The bootfitter should have informed them that this buyer was looking for a performance fit to solve numerous problems he'd lived with in previous boots.

Daleboot, if they were paying attention and if they cared, should have responded with an evaluation of how well the boot would conform to a "performance" fit before filling the order. I don't know where the communication broke down. Prior to that I had read that Daleboot could fit wide feet but not narrow feet. Since his experience I'm convinced it's true.

Good to know. Now crossing Daleboot off the list...