Re: [RBW] Re: What do Rivendell Riders use for minimalist dress and biking shoes?
I bought 2 pairs of sneakers and a pair of "unSwooshers " (link) from AdBusters 10+ years ago and they are still going strong. Good to pedal with, good to walk about in EricF Vancouver BC http://www.metrohippie.com/wp-content/uploads/shoeinfov2_detail1.gif -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: What do Rivendell Riders use for minimalist dress and biking shoes?
tevas, new balance...whatever isn't a leather soled dress shoeall seem to work fine. use vp 001 pedals, or mks allways pedals. On Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 1:44:38 PM UTC-5, lum gim fong wrote: > > Since some of you are minimalists, I was wondering about what you wear for > biking, dress, and casual. > > Do minimalist shoes wear well? Last long? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: What do Rivendell Riders use for minimalist dress and biking shoes?
my favorite no drop, or "minimal" in this instance are Merrells. I used to think all that Merrell made were the no drop style, now it seems they had expanded their line to everything imaginable.Anything with "glove" in the name is worth looking at. http://www.merrell.com/US/en/vapor-glove-3/29193M.html?dwvar_29193M_color=J09677#cgid=men-footwear-view-all&start=1 On Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 4:49:55 AM UTC-6, Garth wrote: > > Patrick of the Moore's , just think of "minimal" shoes as a generalized > term for shoes with no drop from heel to toe and little to no padding. No > drop meaning no elevated heel. Sometimes confused with the term "barefoot" > style shoes which only infers the most minimal shoes of all which are > supposed to be "like" walking barefoot. The term like all words only serves > as a symbol, a guidepost of sorts, to those shoes that allow you to feel > the ground as much as possible without any artifical structure or pads, > "like" walking barefoot. Nothing compares to barefoot of course, it's just > a shoe term. > > You know how it feels walking around in socks , yes ? Now picture gluing > on a 2mm layer of flexible rubber on them that would be the closest > sort of footwear to walking barefoot. Few "minimal" style shoes offer such > feel as they add padding of some sort which numbs the feel of the ground. > Walking barefoot and landing naturally forefoot you don't need padding of > any kind because it involves the whole body. > > > The market of "minimal" shoes seems like a 'tweener between raised heel > heavily padded and "barefoot" style shoes, like a way to get used to zero > drop while still being padded to varying degrees. > > Again, these are generalizations and generally very general like all > generalizations .☺ > > - - - > > All that said, If I must wear shoes I wear some Softstar RunAmoc Original > shoes with the 2mm street soles which look at good as they feel and you can > customize them in all sorts of leathers and different soles. These feel > like wearing socks with 2mm rubber glued on. This particlar version fits my > higher arched feet really well as they are taller and only lace around the > very top. Very clean look and look great everywhere from sport to formal. > > > I also wear Merrell Vapor Glove 2, also like wearing a sock but more > sloppy on my feet around the toes. The all black ones could pass as dress > casual easily. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: What do Rivendell Riders use for minimalist dress and biking shoes?
Understood; thanks. My brother tried those "feets gloves" and injured his feet, though he admits that was because he ran to much too soon in them, but he's back to regular running shoes, albeit not ones that are too structured. I was a toddler in the '50s and my brother was a toddler in the early '60s, and I recall the Buster Brown ankle laceups that were meant to form the wee foot, or at least support it, which shows how medical science goes in and out of fashion. Still, I don't see any way that I or my siblings have suffered from excessively restrained feet as we got older. I recall being shocked as a boy when I heard how fashionable women would get their little toes cut off to fit their feet into the extremely pointed spike heels fashionable back about the time of JFK and Sputnik. Aside, anecdote, humorous, main thread, not germane to, dismiss if you like: I bought a pair of cheap Wellingtons in college that I was very fond of, since they made me look like a hot orangoutang on horseback (just kidding you, Patrick). A friend and I went on a day in/day back out hike in the mountains in middle Ca, forget the park -- Redwood Nat'l Park? -- and I wore the boots over cheap cotton socks. Not comfortable! I still wear cowboy boots when not wearing my boat shoes, but not to hike in, and yes, for looks (but they are comfortable for standing around in). On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 3:49 AM, Garth wrote: > Patrick of the Moore's , just think of "minimal" shoes as a generalized > term for shoes with no drop from heel to toe and little to no padding. No > drop meaning no elevated heel. Sometimes confused with the term "barefoot" > style shoes which only infers the most minimal shoes of all which are > supposed to be "like" walking barefoot. The term like all words only serves > as a symbol, a guidepost of sorts, to those shoes that allow you to feel > the ground as much as possible without any artifical structure or pads, > "like" walking barefoot. Nothing compares to barefoot of course, it's just > a shoe term. > > You know how it feels walking around in socks , yes ? Now picture gluing > on a 2mm layer of flexible rubber on them that would be the closest > sort of footwear to walking barefoot. Few "minimal" style shoes offer such > feel as they add padding of some sort which numbs the feel of the ground. > Walking barefoot and landing naturally forefoot you don't need padding of > any kind because it involves the whole body. > > > The market of "minimal" shoes seems like a 'tweener between raised heel > heavily padded and "barefoot" style shoes, like a way to get used to zero > drop while still being padded to varying degrees. > > Again, these are generalizations and generally very general like all > generalizations .☺ > > - - - > > All that said, If I must wear shoes I wear some Softstar RunAmoc Original > shoes with the 2mm street soles which look at good as they feel and you can > customize them in all sorts of leathers and different soles. These feel > like wearing socks with 2mm rubber glued on. This particlar version fits my > higher arched feet really well as they are taller and only lace around the > very top. Very clean look and look great everywhere from sport to formal. > > > I also wear Merrell Vapor Glove 2, also like wearing a sock but more > sloppy on my feet around the toes. The all black ones could pass as dress > casual easily. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, New Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique ** ** *Auditis an me ludit amabilis insania?* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: What do Rivendell Riders use for minimalist dress and biking shoes?
I also misinterpreted the term “minimal” - I took it to mean fewer items that perform the tasks of many. Like an all-rounder or spork. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: What do Rivendell Riders use for minimalist dress and biking shoes?
Patrick of the Moore's , just think of "minimal" shoes as a generalized term for shoes with no drop from heel to toe and little to no padding. No drop meaning no elevated heel. Sometimes confused with the term "barefoot" style shoes which only infers the most minimal shoes of all which are supposed to be "like" walking barefoot. The term like all words only serves as a symbol, a guidepost of sorts, to those shoes that allow you to feel the ground as much as possible without any artifical structure or pads, "like" walking barefoot. Nothing compares to barefoot of course, it's just a shoe term. You know how it feels walking around in socks , yes ? Now picture gluing on a 2mm layer of flexible rubber on them that would be the closest sort of footwear to walking barefoot. Few "minimal" style shoes offer such feel as they add padding of some sort which numbs the feel of the ground. Walking barefoot and landing naturally forefoot you don't need padding of any kind because it involves the whole body. The market of "minimal" shoes seems like a 'tweener between raised heel heavily padded and "barefoot" style shoes, like a way to get used to zero drop while still being padded to varying degrees. Again, these are generalizations and generally very general like all generalizations .☺ - - - All that said, If I must wear shoes I wear some Softstar RunAmoc Original shoes with the 2mm street soles which look at good as they feel and you can customize them in all sorts of leathers and different soles. These feel like wearing socks with 2mm rubber glued on. This particlar version fits my higher arched feet really well as they are taller and only lace around the very top. Very clean look and look great everywhere from sport to formal. I also wear Merrell Vapor Glove 2, also like wearing a sock but more sloppy on my feet around the toes. The all black ones could pass as dress casual easily. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: What do Rivendell Riders use for minimalist dress and biking shoes?
I got the LEMS Nine2Five shoes. Black. Looks nicest in dress and best reviews I could find. Thanks for the references for the other shoes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
