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Post Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:02 pm

Why are skate shoe laces so long?

Well?

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Post Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:03 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

Because they are, so long.
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Post Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:06 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

Bye.
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Post Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:09 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

Because god’s a cunt.

Or is that haemorrhoids?
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Post Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:37 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

So you can lace them like a ballet dancer, over your long socks of course.
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Post Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:49 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

Is it so they fit full Cabs etc, saves money if one lace fits all.
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Post Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:51 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

And it gives your cat a bigger target when it shits in said shoe..
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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:11 am

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

At it again wrote:And it gives your cat a bigger target when it shits in said shoe..


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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:48 am

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

So you have enough lace left to still use them when you break them doing an ollie or a knee slide or if they get attacked by your grip tape.
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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:45 am

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

Finally, this forum's starting to address some serious issues. I think lace length is getting totally fucking out of hand. I've had to resort to shortening them myself using sellotape to create a new plastic bit at the end. Questions should be asked in Parliament as far as I'm concerned.
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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:26 am

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

It's for old fuckers like us who can't bend over that far when we're tying them up :?
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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:03 am

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

TonyB wrote:So you have enough lace left to still use them when you break them doing an ollie or a knee slide or if they get attacked by your grip tape.


Like that's going to happen to my shoes. :roll: :lol:
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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:02 am

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

bertslide wrote:So you can lace them like a ballet dancer, over your long socks of course.
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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:05 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

Rob G wrote: using sellotape to create a new plastic bit at the end.


I think you'll find these plastic bits at the end of laces are called aglets. I have now now exhausted my knowledge of shoe laces...I'll get my coat.
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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:01 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

They're long, so that you can use them to hold your pants up :roll:
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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:12 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

Maybe it's so you can use them in emergencies like a bola, spinning them round your head and releasing them just at the right time to take out some particularly annoying scooter kid across a crowded skatepark.

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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:30 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

So that's how this happened ! ...

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Mystery solved :)
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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:28 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

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Post Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:04 pm

Re: Why are skate shoe laces so long?

:? Surely it's so you can string Snakey up when he gets too trappy !

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Post Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:46 pm

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I am still here you know.
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