Warning. boot lace hooks.

[demented dale]

I was just selling some boots to a friend and relaying a 'to do' to him. The 'to do' is to squash the inside legs top couple of lace hooks in slightly to stop the tied laces from the opposite boot getting caught in them. Anyone who has had this happen will know EXACTLY what I am talking about and anyone who hasn't can save themselves a broken neck by reading and acting on this. Happy hiking amigos. DD xxxxx

 

[Broch]

LOL, I have had this problem with 'smart' boots - ankles crossed under the table at a restaurant or the pub and I suddenly realise my feet are locked together. Then comes the difficult job of trying to untangle them without everyone noticing. Luckily, I've never tried standing up

 

[Tony]

Ha ha, yeah, i've had this happen, always when iv'e crossed my legs, then need to work my ankles free of each other!

 

[Keith_Beef]

Yes, I've had the loop of the lace of one boot catch a hook of the other boot. Luckily, it wasn't catastrophic.

Since then I try to make sure that I don't leave big loops. If the laces are so long that I can't avoid either big loops of long free ends of lace, I find a way of reducing the danger.

I might tuck the loops back into the boot, pass then behind my legs before tying the bow, hooking the loops through other loops, tying the loops in a reef knot... anything the take up the slack.

 

[John Fenna]

I have never had an issue ...but I tend to tuck my lace ends into my boots as I hate flappy laces....

 

[demented dale]

Since it happened to me (wake up, not a fall) i crimp every new pair I get wide enough so I have to use slight force to get laces in. I also tie my laces on opposite side (outer leg). In view of this thread I should start tucking them in. DD xxxx

 

[forrestdweller]

I have never had an issue ...but I tend to tuck my lace ends into my boots as I hate flappy laces....

some time ago i posted a thread regarding the same issue after Greg Ovens released a YouTube video on the subject -- i once had a pair of "meindl" boots featuring this flaw and tucking my laces in didn't work (as they always came out again), i got caught on the other boot's hooks more than once which at one point resulted in me shooting head-first down the aisle in a bus...

 

[demented dale]

some time ago i posted a thread regarding the same issue after Greg Ovens released a YouTube video on the subject -- i once had a pair of "meindl" boots featuring this flaw and tucking my laces in didn't work (as they always came out again), i got caught on the other boot's hooks more than once which at one point resulted in me shooting head-first down the aisle in a bus...

the crimping thing I do has always worked. I do it in a way so that I have to make an effort to get the lace into the hook. I very nearly went flying. if I had been running that would have been it. xxxx
ps its funny you should mention Meindl boots. They were the ones I was wearing and a different pair are the ones I am passing on at the beginning of this thread. DD xxxx pps Just to add it happened on a pair of karimor walking boots also. xxx

 

[demented dale]

I was just selling some boots to a friend and relaying a 'to do' to him. The 'to do' is to squash the inside legs top couple of lace hooks in slightly to stop the tied laces from the opposite boot getting caught in them. Anyone who has had this happen will know EXACTLY what I am talking about and anyone who hasn't can save themselves a broken neck by reading and acting on this. Happy hiking amigos. DD xxxxx

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[Chris]

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Is that the sound of you getting your laces caught again?

 

[demented dale]

Is that the sound of you getting your laces caught again?

haha! keep this thread fresh. it literally is a lifesaver xxxx