Support Orchid. Best riding shoes in the biz.

One of the major problems with bmx shoes is that if they really want to win over riders, don’t rely purely on the goodwill they receive from riders by being a rider owned company. They should focus on making the best damn product they can while keeping it affordable. The quality has gone down hill in the last few years I noticed. My first pair of Orchids died pretty quick and loteks only last a month. Make better shoes and your profits will go up.

Derek is the best dude.

not to talk shit, but ive heard some shady things about him.

your right, they do have to make quality products but they’re still early in the game here, theres only 2 or 3 bmx shoe companies out there. it takes an incredible amount of money to make shoes, and the only way they are going to get better is if YOU support them and give them money to make better products. its just like walmart (or any other chain that doesn’t give a shit about its customers and employees) competing against local businesses. sure the products at the downtown mom and pop store may cost a dollar more but that dollar goes into supporting the local community and may even end up benefiting you in the long run. anyway if you wanna keep seeing bmx lumped in the same category as motocross and pushed as a corny sport with an “X-treme” image (a la nike 6.0), or being bought out by other sports(cult) then keep buying those nikes and putting money in the pocket of someone who sees bmx as a marketing opportunity and not what it really is.

LIKE… I’m interested to know the shadiness. You’ve peaked my interest.

He didn’t pay his riders for months, but made all his personal bills. Orchid = OUT OF BUSINESS

I wish they did the Classic Horns T-shirt again. That shit was fresh! I would buy it if they went back to the old school style. I kind of lost interest when the whole emo white belt stuff came around. Put the OG’s and start it back up again. Some of them still ride, Garrett Byrnes, Van Homan, Marvin Loetterle, Mike Ardelean, Jason Enns, Rich Hirsch. That would be awesome! ThrowBack company!

look how many riders supported lotek..and look what happend..they went from the best shoe ever (the troop,and brooklyn,Throwback) and then made vulc glued together junk shoes that fell appart. then realized no one likes them so then put the original sole pattern on them and still glued them on and trying to save money. but i dont own a shoe company so i may be wrong on everything.

Strong shoes? Please. Orchids fall apart. All skate and bmx shoes fall apart. Some quicker than others, but the nature of what we do is hard on shoes…Also, Orchid hasn’t answered their phone in almost a year. Not only will magazines soon be a thing of the past, but rider-owned shoe companies as well.

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YO ORCHID IS DAT SHIT, FUCK ALL YOU HATERS!! ,GET AT ME!, if you got a problem wit orchid come down to philly and see what happens, hahahah FLAMERZ 3!!, holla, lotek be on at DECOY SHIT! ORCHID is DBOY FO LIFE, grand hustle niggaaaaaaaaa!!get dat flamerz 3 in stores sonn!!

i saw meek rocking them blue jawns down the way!!!they hott!

This kids pic really annoys me. Wow you own a lightmeter… get over it

Glued connectionen can last very good f.e. windshields of cars are glued. It’s just the way you glue things.
A vulcanized sole can be good as well because it doesn’t get softer after an amount of time riding.

I never rode with my Coastels but they are fucked up the sole ist loosening and was from day one slippery as hell. So no good pair of shoes