Rich just posted the new Lotek line and it looks good… he also mentions that they have a new sole in the works which is good news. They also have an official warranty page on the site now. Check out the rest of the shoes after the jump.
yes you will, orchids suck just as much nowadays. all bmx shoes do. all the companies do anymore is try to save money by using synthetic leather and other cut corners instead of producing quality shoes that will last. anything past like the 2007 line orchid produced sucks complete dick. skate shoes FTW
rich, let me give you my beat to fuck 3 week old chase shoes in return for new ones…its only fair sense they were pretty horrible. just kidding…but seriously
Lotek must be pretty deep in A22’s pocket because that tool posts every fucking thing they do on this site despite how much hate the posts get. Fuck, he’d probably post if they changed shoelace colors. No one wants to read this gay shit.
im really into lotek, ive had them since they came out…
rich has always been go to me if my shoes go sour, but its gonna take a lot for me to drop another $75 on loteks…. ill have to wait until people get them and try them out to make sure the soul and the glue is alright, but other then that i like the way they came out this season….
i like lotek.
ive always supported Lotek since the begining,
Lotek Mixtape revolutionized BMX and started NEWSKOOL trends.
they have always had a killer team and the BROOKLYNS were the shit. they lasted longer and looked better than any lotek ever. BRING EM BACK!!
ive purchased at LEAST 10 pairs since then hoping they would get better but 3 footjams in and they start to rip and unglue. I really hope the shoes get better this coming from a LOYAL LOTEK supporter NOT some Orchid lovin hater.
if they would do a regular non-retarded colorway of the troop I would be psyched. lotek should bring back the old bob scerbo colorway troops. Those were great and the souls lasted forever. I went through my last pair of nightwolfs in under three months. kind of weird how they seem to just piss on the supporters because the bmx market is small enough that we will buy rider owned stuff no matter what.
did you see what rich said? stronger glue? how about doing some new shoes. those are the same shit, different colors. are you waiting for another company to start so that you can rip them off too
3 months? youve got to be kidding me…i finally blew up the toes of my valelly 1’s after 6 years! mild sole left but still, my average shoe life depends on how i wear em and if im skating in em. dont ride brakeless if you hate buying new shoes. and if they stink, you have a fucking clothes washer dont you?
pretty much what ANDY said, bring back a regular non retarded coloerway of the troop , that will be sick, had 3 pairs of the the very first black ones, deff bring that and the brown ones back, come on, stop being a vans rip off / emo scen kid rolled into one and bring back the og shit sonny
all of these kids talk about how ugly the shoes are/but yet they say they rip off vans,and then go buy vans?…I find that funny! and loteks are awesome,they don’t hurt my feet like vans do and they last me longer than vans and to the kids that keep saying it’s all the same shoes in diff colors,realize every shoe company does that but changes a little something every time so they may look similar but they’re nothing alike.
I am running a pair of the old chase dehart loteks. fairly recent ones though. then they drop the V2 which is better. but why not make them good in the first place. wankers. either way, lotek wont get my custom EVER again. worst pieces of shit ive ever bought. sure ill give it to them that they look good. but i dont want that from my bmx shoes. I want shoes that can take a beating, and protect my feet from what bmx throws at them. surely it cant be THAT hard to combine form with function. you know what, Im gonna go out on a limb on record and say I KNOW i could make better shoes. Unfortunately, i know it wont happen because lotek has a huge following of riders that blows them for some reason, but i sincerely hope that market forces turns around and makes the company extinct.
I’ve had Airwalks for 4 years that are only just giving up the ghost now. These cost £30. If a BMX shoe cost twice what a skate shoe does and only lasts a few weeks, I’ll continue to buy skate shoes. Sort it out BMX industry. Loteks rip, and Orchids look like special boy shoes.
[...] The Come Up just posted an update about the Lotek Back To School 09 line that was just previews on the Lotek blog. Check out the whole line after the jump. [...]
I’m sick of being guilted into buying this shit just because it apparently helps support bmx. Fuck that, you decide to make a product in order to make a profit off of riders, you should do better if you want my business.
even though all my friends had bad luck with loteks, i still went out and bought a pair of deharts.
I must have been fucking retarded. First week the glue started coming undone just from walking around. then one foot jam tail whipper rips a hole on the side right to my sock. At this point i didnt care anymore. So i rode in them. 2 weeks later my foot jam foot completely fell apart in the front. It looked like a fucking Banana.
I hope kids stop buying into this “Lotek supports BMX” bullshit. Lotek is all image and no fuckin backbone. No product integrity and zero artistic integrity.
Let’s also not forget that Lotek is owned/backed by TIP PLUS. A company who has fucked over several of the best pros and industry guys of the last decade. Multiple riders leaving tip/primo on bad terms and proven shitty shoes must mean something.
Lotek is cheap fashion and nothing more. I hope some of the Lotek riders will move on and stop leading kids to think this is a legit company.
I have NEVER bought a pair of Loteks and I’ve been riding for years. I always buy shoes made by skate companies; usually Emerica because they have a huge variety of bad-ass looking shoes that come in all kinds of color ways. Also, because they last a good while.
With that being said, Loteks are gross anyway. There’s this guy I rode with a few times and he wears the burgundy Nightwolfs. His shoes look like fucking potatoes.
all this shit talking is easy to fix…… if Lotek sucks so bad, etc….START YOUR OWN FUCKING SHOE COMPANY!!!!!………..now go back to your shitty life and stick a gerbil in your ass…….
loteks are shit!……FACT!
if your a rider that does either footjams or tailwhips your loteks will fall to pieces withing a week or so.
the glue holding the sole to my shoe started peeling away after like 3 or 4 days of riding them. then a couple of whips later the side of the shoe has a hole in it.
best bmx shoes = nike 6.0
Am I crazy or has the view older comments button dissapeared from this post? I know this website would never censor information just because it goes against a company it likes! fucked up.
The image on the lotek site has way more shoes. Suckadick
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July 22, 2009 at 10:22 am
Balls
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*cough VANS cough*
July 22, 2009 at 10:44 am
ted
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LOTEK LOTEK LOTEK. I used Lotek Coastals for 2 weeks and they were like cuted with a knife. I bet i cant even get a warranty
July 22, 2009 at 1:31 pm
EMPIRE GUY
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Let’s go ahead and add iPath to the long list of rich hirsch’s ripoffs
July 22, 2009 at 3:57 pm
another one
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ill get some Orchids, that way i dont have to buy shoes next month.
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July 22, 2009 at 10:24 am
Tillman
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yes you will, orchids suck just as much nowadays. all bmx shoes do. all the companies do anymore is try to save money by using synthetic leather and other cut corners instead of producing quality shoes that will last. anything past like the 2007 line orchid produced sucks complete dick. skate shoes FTW
July 22, 2009 at 4:33 pm
joe
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vulcanized soles suck……..period
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July 22, 2009 at 10:26 am
Pissed off Shoe guy
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Truth
July 22, 2009 at 10:32 am
David D. Davidson
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bring back the brooklyns and ill consider it.
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July 22, 2009 at 10:31 am
Tillman
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The newblack n white dehart one’s are really really really horrendous
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July 22, 2009 at 10:32 am
ellis
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rich, let me give you my beat to fuck 3 week old chase shoes in return for new ones…its only fair sense they were pretty horrible. just kidding…but seriously
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July 22, 2009 at 10:32 am
the beetis
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they all look like shoe’s a disabled person wears. they suck
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July 22, 2009 at 10:33 am
ebineeeeza
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Lotek must be pretty deep in A22’s pocket because that tool posts every fucking thing they do on this site despite how much hate the posts get. Fuck, he’d probably post if they changed shoelace colors. No one wants to read this gay shit.
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July 22, 2009 at 10:35 am
David D. Davidson
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im really into lotek, ive had them since they came out…
rich has always been go to me if my shoes go sour, but its gonna take a lot for me to drop another $75 on loteks…. ill have to wait until people get them and try them out to make sure the soul and the glue is alright, but other then that i like the way they came out this season….
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July 22, 2009 at 10:39 am
craig passero
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This comment was actually posted by ME, chris zeppieri, craig was the last person to post on my computer i guess haha
July 22, 2009 at 10:40 am
Chris Zeppieri
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you guys are too cute.
July 22, 2009 at 10:45 pm
boomshit
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i like lotek.
ive always supported Lotek since the begining,
Lotek Mixtape revolutionized BMX and started NEWSKOOL trends.
they have always had a killer team and the BROOKLYNS were the shit. they lasted longer and looked better than any lotek ever. BRING EM BACK!!
ive purchased at LEAST 10 pairs since then hoping they would get better but 3 footjams in and they start to rip and unglue. I really hope the shoes get better this coming from a LOYAL LOTEK supporter NOT some Orchid lovin hater.
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July 22, 2009 at 10:46 am
FAIL
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my orchid van homans are still going strong after a year. you fail.
July 22, 2009 at 11:27 am
orchid lovin hater
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AYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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July 22, 2009 at 10:56 am
muffy F baby
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if they would do a regular non-retarded colorway of the troop I would be psyched. lotek should bring back the old bob scerbo colorway troops. Those were great and the souls lasted forever. I went through my last pair of nightwolfs in under three months. kind of weird how they seem to just piss on the supporters because the bmx market is small enough that we will buy rider owned stuff no matter what.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:02 am
Andy
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did you see what rich said? stronger glue? how about doing some new shoes. those are the same shit, different colors. are you waiting for another company to start so that you can rip them off too
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July 22, 2009 at 11:08 am
For Real
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Why would you want to own shoes for over 3 months? They start to stink. And a year! Those orchids must be nasty. I bet orchid dude gets no pussy.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:32 am
Your feet
o
AMEN
July 22, 2009 at 1:28 pm
humous
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3 months? youve got to be kidding me…i finally blew up the toes of my valelly 1’s after 6 years! mild sole left but still, my average shoe life depends on how i wear em and if im skating in em. dont ride brakeless if you hate buying new shoes. and if they stink, you have a fucking clothes washer dont you?
July 22, 2009 at 1:36 pm
sam stanfield
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Different strokes. I like to ride in vulcanized soles.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:36 am
Check it out fellas.
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pretty much what ANDY said, bring back a regular non retarded coloerway of the troop , that will be sick, had 3 pairs of the the very first black ones, deff bring that and the brown ones back, come on, stop being a vans rip off / emo scen kid rolled into one and bring back the og shit sonny
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July 22, 2009 at 11:40 am
nahhhhhh nahhhhh my nigg
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who still calls people emo. get with the times. you must be from the midwest or listen to Insane Clown Posse and Cotton Mouth Kings.
July 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Shaka guy
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Lotek makes the ugliest shit ever. PLEASE STOP! Bmx is already oversaturated with lame ass shit.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:41 am
rich is retarded
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bring back throwbacks and brooklyns please, that’s all i need.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:55 am
philly.
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i already have the black/blue deltas on order, i hope they last me as long as the orifinal deltas did
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July 22, 2009 at 11:56 am
bill
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Best looking,cleanest shoes in BMX…period. Except for those denim/black troops.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:57 am
dayday
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all of these kids talk about how ugly the shoes are/but yet they say they rip off vans,and then go buy vans?…I find that funny! and loteks are awesome,they don’t hurt my feet like vans do and they last me longer than vans and to the kids that keep saying it’s all the same shoes in diff colors,realize every shoe company does that but changes a little something every time so they may look similar but they’re nothing alike.
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July 22, 2009 at 12:29 pm
lil nick
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I am running a pair of the old chase dehart loteks. fairly recent ones though. then they drop the V2 which is better. but why not make them good in the first place. wankers. either way, lotek wont get my custom EVER again. worst pieces of shit ive ever bought. sure ill give it to them that they look good. but i dont want that from my bmx shoes. I want shoes that can take a beating, and protect my feet from what bmx throws at them. surely it cant be THAT hard to combine form with function. you know what, Im gonna go out on a limb on record and say I KNOW i could make better shoes. Unfortunately, i know it wont happen because lotek has a huge following of riders that blows them for some reason, but i sincerely hope that market forces turns around and makes the company extinct.
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July 22, 2009 at 12:50 pm
bman
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I’m sure Lotek is sad to lose your ‘custom’.
I bet your shoes would rule.
July 22, 2009 at 6:09 pm
boohoohooo
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I’ve had Airwalks for 4 years that are only just giving up the ghost now. These cost £30. If a BMX shoe cost twice what a skate shoe does and only lasts a few weeks, I’ll continue to buy skate shoes. Sort it out BMX industry. Loteks rip, and Orchids look like special boy shoes.
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July 22, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Ben
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Loteks protect your ego, not your feet.
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July 22, 2009 at 1:59 pm
willy wonka
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i emailed rich about the warranty for my daks, fingers crossed!
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July 22, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Brandon
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well said BMAN…..
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July 22, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Pissed off Shoe guy
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But very poorly written.
July 22, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Bobby P.
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converse chucks are more tech advanced than any of this product line…where’d ya get these made?PURE FUCKIN GARBAGE
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July 22, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Factual
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kostons were horrible for riding,destroyed my heel in the first month of riding in them and lakai doesn’t make kostons anymore he skates for SB now.
July 22, 2009 at 7:05 pm
lil nick
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You guys should just get some Koston’s and shut the fuck up.
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July 22, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Koston
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i bet koston’s actually grip pedals………
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July 22, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Pissed off Shoe guy
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Nope
July 22, 2009 at 6:38 pm
RICHARD
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if you gonna rock the vulcanized sole, get yourself some Dr. Scholls.
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July 22, 2009 at 2:55 pm
LEx Luthor
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And some glue so you can repair them when they peel apart.
July 22, 2009 at 6:39 pm
RICHARD
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i’m not really feeling any of these shoes. some of them look absolutely terrible.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:14 pm
yeah
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throwbacks were the best bmx shoes ever. idk about this stuff though. mikes look good.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:23 pm
porad
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ive have a pair of coastals and the chase shadow shoe and theyre perfect! i havent had any problems like all you guys even with foot jams or whatever.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Edward
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and same here! coastals and deltas have been holding up for me since they came out.
July 22, 2009 at 7:06 pm
lil nick
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I’m sick of being guilted into buying this shit just because it apparently helps support bmx. Fuck that, you decide to make a product in order to make a profit off of riders, you should do better if you want my business.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:44 pm
How capitalism works
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xactly. THAT TEAM could sell shoes made of goat bladders, pretty much are now
July 22, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Drifter
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even though all my friends had bad luck with loteks, i still went out and bought a pair of deharts.
I must have been fucking retarded. First week the glue started coming undone just from walking around. then one foot jam tail whipper rips a hole on the side right to my sock. At this point i didnt care anymore. So i rode in them. 2 weeks later my foot jam foot completely fell apart in the front. It looked like a fucking Banana.
Sorry Lotek but you gotta change your shit.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Dustin Beauchene
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dear Rich please bring back the OG brown Troops.. that is all
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July 22, 2009 at 4:01 pm
AndyG
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I hope kids stop buying into this “Lotek supports BMX” bullshit. Lotek is all image and no fuckin backbone. No product integrity and zero artistic integrity.
Let’s also not forget that Lotek is owned/backed by TIP PLUS. A company who has fucked over several of the best pros and industry guys of the last decade. Multiple riders leaving tip/primo on bad terms and proven shitty shoes must mean something.
Lotek is cheap fashion and nothing more. I hope some of the Lotek riders will move on and stop leading kids to think this is a legit company.
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July 22, 2009 at 4:11 pm
largem
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Everyone you support should support us instead. we have top quality shoes with bmx in mind.
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July 22, 2009 at 4:20 pm
ORCHID
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those shoes are all ugly as shit. bmx shoes really are garbage. lakai has been the only brand i’ve trusted lately.
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July 22, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Clubber Lang
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time for a SHOE-T-OUT!
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July 22, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Doinker
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I have NEVER bought a pair of Loteks and I’ve been riding for years. I always buy shoes made by skate companies; usually Emerica because they have a huge variety of bad-ass looking shoes that come in all kinds of color ways. Also, because they last a good while.
With that being said, Loteks are gross anyway. There’s this guy I rode with a few times and he wears the burgundy Nightwolfs. His shoes look like fucking potatoes.
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July 22, 2009 at 5:36 pm
me?
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I got my Vans on but they look like sneakers.
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July 22, 2009 at 5:45 pm
tom perry
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boo vulk soles…
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July 22, 2009 at 5:54 pm
count grishnackh
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Fuck lotek, and fuck rich hirsch. They both are equally the worst things to happen to bmx.
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July 22, 2009 at 6:08 pm
fred shred
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all this shit talking is easy to fix…… if Lotek sucks so bad, etc….START YOUR OWN FUCKING SHOE COMPANY!!!!!………..now go back to your shitty life and stick a gerbil in your ass…….
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July 22, 2009 at 6:14 pm
HoodRatLover
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HURR DURR YOU’RE SO FUCKING SMART.
July 22, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Your mother
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i think lotek is the best bomb shit in the wizzorld!!! yeah boyeeee say what say what!
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July 22, 2009 at 8:00 pm
pb
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Adam is on lotek
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July 22, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Ali Bamba
yeah wtf rich designing good looking shoes which don’t fuck off after a few months and don’t conform to ANY modern shoe making convention is fucken easy. Any 16 year old with a fat bag o doritos and a funny uncle could do it.
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The image on the lotek site has way more shoes. Suckadick
*cough VANS cough*
LOTEK LOTEK LOTEK. I used Lotek Coastals for 2 weeks and they were like cuted with a knife. I bet i cant even get a warranty
Let’s go ahead and add iPath to the long list of rich hirsch’s ripoffs
ill get some Orchids, that way i dont have to buy shoes next month.
yes you will, orchids suck just as much nowadays. all bmx shoes do. all the companies do anymore is try to save money by using synthetic leather and other cut corners instead of producing quality shoes that will last. anything past like the 2007 line orchid produced sucks complete dick. skate shoes FTW
vulcanized soles suck……..period
Truth
bring back the brooklyns and ill consider it.
The newblack n white dehart one’s are really really really horrendous
rich, let me give you my beat to fuck 3 week old chase shoes in return for new ones…its only fair sense they were pretty horrible. just kidding…but seriously
they all look like shoe’s a disabled person wears. they suck
Lotek must be pretty deep in A22’s pocket because that tool posts every fucking thing they do on this site despite how much hate the posts get. Fuck, he’d probably post if they changed shoelace colors. No one wants to read this gay shit.
im really into lotek, ive had them since they came out…
rich has always been go to me if my shoes go sour, but its gonna take a lot for me to drop another $75 on loteks…. ill have to wait until people get them and try them out to make sure the soul and the glue is alright, but other then that i like the way they came out this season….
This comment was actually posted by ME, chris zeppieri, craig was the last person to post on my computer i guess haha
you guys are too cute.
i like lotek.
ive always supported Lotek since the begining,
Lotek Mixtape revolutionized BMX and started NEWSKOOL trends.
they have always had a killer team and the BROOKLYNS were the shit. they lasted longer and looked better than any lotek ever. BRING EM BACK!!
ive purchased at LEAST 10 pairs since then hoping they would get better but 3 footjams in and they start to rip and unglue. I really hope the shoes get better this coming from a LOYAL LOTEK supporter NOT some Orchid lovin hater.
my orchid van homans are still going strong after a year. you fail.
AYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
if they would do a regular non-retarded colorway of the troop I would be psyched. lotek should bring back the old bob scerbo colorway troops. Those were great and the souls lasted forever. I went through my last pair of nightwolfs in under three months. kind of weird how they seem to just piss on the supporters because the bmx market is small enough that we will buy rider owned stuff no matter what.
did you see what rich said? stronger glue? how about doing some new shoes. those are the same shit, different colors. are you waiting for another company to start so that you can rip them off too
Why would you want to own shoes for over 3 months? They start to stink. And a year! Those orchids must be nasty. I bet orchid dude gets no pussy.
AMEN
3 months? youve got to be kidding me…i finally blew up the toes of my valelly 1’s after 6 years! mild sole left but still, my average shoe life depends on how i wear em and if im skating in em. dont ride brakeless if you hate buying new shoes. and if they stink, you have a fucking clothes washer dont you?
Different strokes. I like to ride in vulcanized soles.
pretty much what ANDY said, bring back a regular non retarded coloerway of the troop , that will be sick, had 3 pairs of the the very first black ones, deff bring that and the brown ones back, come on, stop being a vans rip off / emo scen kid rolled into one and bring back the og shit sonny
who still calls people emo. get with the times. you must be from the midwest or listen to Insane Clown Posse and Cotton Mouth Kings.
Lotek makes the ugliest shit ever. PLEASE STOP! Bmx is already oversaturated with lame ass shit.
bring back throwbacks and brooklyns please, that’s all i need.
i already have the black/blue deltas on order, i hope they last me as long as the orifinal deltas did
Best looking,cleanest shoes in BMX…period. Except for those denim/black troops.
all of these kids talk about how ugly the shoes are/but yet they say they rip off vans,and then go buy vans?…I find that funny! and loteks are awesome,they don’t hurt my feet like vans do and they last me longer than vans and to the kids that keep saying it’s all the same shoes in diff colors,realize every shoe company does that but changes a little something every time so they may look similar but they’re nothing alike.
I am running a pair of the old chase dehart loteks. fairly recent ones though. then they drop the V2 which is better. but why not make them good in the first place. wankers. either way, lotek wont get my custom EVER again. worst pieces of shit ive ever bought. sure ill give it to them that they look good. but i dont want that from my bmx shoes. I want shoes that can take a beating, and protect my feet from what bmx throws at them. surely it cant be THAT hard to combine form with function. you know what, Im gonna go out on a limb on record and say I KNOW i could make better shoes. Unfortunately, i know it wont happen because lotek has a huge following of riders that blows them for some reason, but i sincerely hope that market forces turns around and makes the company extinct.
I’m sure Lotek is sad to lose your ‘custom’.
I bet your shoes would rule.
I’ve had Airwalks for 4 years that are only just giving up the ghost now. These cost £30. If a BMX shoe cost twice what a skate shoe does and only lasts a few weeks, I’ll continue to buy skate shoes. Sort it out BMX industry. Loteks rip, and Orchids look like special boy shoes.
Loteks protect your ego, not your feet.
i emailed rich about the warranty for my daks, fingers crossed!
well said BMAN…..
But very poorly written.
converse chucks are more tech advanced than any of this product line…where’d ya get these made?PURE FUCKIN GARBAGE
kostons were horrible for riding,destroyed my heel in the first month of riding in them and lakai doesn’t make kostons anymore he skates for SB now.
You guys should just get some Koston’s and shut the fuck up.
i bet koston’s actually grip pedals………
Nope
if you gonna rock the vulcanized sole, get yourself some Dr. Scholls.
And some glue so you can repair them when they peel apart.
[...] The Come Up just posted an update about the Lotek Back To School 09 line that was just previews on the Lotek blog. Check out the whole line after the jump. [...]
i’m not really feeling any of these shoes. some of them look absolutely terrible.
throwbacks were the best bmx shoes ever. idk about this stuff though. mikes look good.
ive have a pair of coastals and the chase shadow shoe and theyre perfect! i havent had any problems like all you guys even with foot jams or whatever.
and same here! coastals and deltas have been holding up for me since they came out.
I’m sick of being guilted into buying this shit just because it apparently helps support bmx. Fuck that, you decide to make a product in order to make a profit off of riders, you should do better if you want my business.
xactly. THAT TEAM could sell shoes made of goat bladders, pretty much are now
even though all my friends had bad luck with loteks, i still went out and bought a pair of deharts.
I must have been fucking retarded. First week the glue started coming undone just from walking around. then one foot jam tail whipper rips a hole on the side right to my sock. At this point i didnt care anymore. So i rode in them. 2 weeks later my foot jam foot completely fell apart in the front. It looked like a fucking Banana.
Sorry Lotek but you gotta change your shit.
dear Rich please bring back the OG brown Troops.. that is all
I hope kids stop buying into this “Lotek supports BMX” bullshit. Lotek is all image and no fuckin backbone. No product integrity and zero artistic integrity.
Let’s also not forget that Lotek is owned/backed by TIP PLUS. A company who has fucked over several of the best pros and industry guys of the last decade. Multiple riders leaving tip/primo on bad terms and proven shitty shoes must mean something.
Lotek is cheap fashion and nothing more. I hope some of the Lotek riders will move on and stop leading kids to think this is a legit company.
Everyone you support should support us instead. we have top quality shoes with bmx in mind.
those shoes are all ugly as shit. bmx shoes really are garbage. lakai has been the only brand i’ve trusted lately.
yep, same here. lakai are never going to support bmx in anyway, but a least i know my shoes are going to last.
time for a SHOE-T-OUT!
I have NEVER bought a pair of Loteks and I’ve been riding for years. I always buy shoes made by skate companies; usually Emerica because they have a huge variety of bad-ass looking shoes that come in all kinds of color ways. Also, because they last a good while.
With that being said, Loteks are gross anyway. There’s this guy I rode with a few times and he wears the burgundy Nightwolfs. His shoes look like fucking potatoes.
I got my Vans on but they look like sneakers.
boo vulk soles…
Fuck lotek, and fuck rich hirsch. They both are equally the worst things to happen to bmx.
all this shit talking is easy to fix…… if Lotek sucks so bad, etc….START YOUR OWN FUCKING SHOE COMPANY!!!!!………..now go back to your shitty life and stick a gerbil in your ass…….
HURR DURR YOU’RE SO FUCKING SMART.
i think lotek is the best bomb shit in the wizzorld!!! yeah boyeeee say what say what!
Adam is on lotek
van homan will save us
loteks are shit!……FACT!
if your a rider that does either footjams or tailwhips your loteks will fall to pieces withing a week or so.
the glue holding the sole to my shoe started peeling away after like 3 or 4 days of riding them. then a couple of whips later the side of the shoe has a hole in it.
best bmx shoes = nike 6.0
fuck nike. and my friends loteks lasted him months doing multiple footjams and footjamwhips. you fail
the glue on my loteks are already coming apart…pretty horrible considering i dont ride in these shoes.
bring back inopias , thos shoes were ighttttttttt my nigggggggggggg
the shadow ones look better with the original soles
ive got with the old soles aint that good ripped in a couple of weeks
Am I crazy or has the view older comments button dissapeared from this post? I know this website would never censor information just because it goes against a company it likes! fucked up.
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The image on the lotek site has way more shoes. Suckadick
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July 22, 2009 at 10:22 am
Balls
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*cough VANS cough*
July 22, 2009 at 10:44 am
ted
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LOTEK LOTEK LOTEK. I used Lotek Coastals for 2 weeks and they were like cuted with a knife. I bet i cant even get a warranty
July 22, 2009 at 1:31 pm
EMPIRE GUY
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Let’s go ahead and add iPath to the long list of rich hirsch’s ripoffs
July 22, 2009 at 3:57 pm
another one
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ill get some Orchids, that way i dont have to buy shoes next month.
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July 22, 2009 at 10:24 am
Tillman
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yes you will, orchids suck just as much nowadays. all bmx shoes do. all the companies do anymore is try to save money by using synthetic leather and other cut corners instead of producing quality shoes that will last. anything past like the 2007 line orchid produced sucks complete dick. skate shoes FTW
July 22, 2009 at 4:33 pm
joe
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vulcanized soles suck……..period
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July 22, 2009 at 10:26 am
Pissed off Shoe guy
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Truth
July 22, 2009 at 10:32 am
David D. Davidson
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bring back the brooklyns and ill consider it.
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July 22, 2009 at 10:31 am
Tillman
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The newblack n white dehart one’s are really really really horrendous
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July 22, 2009 at 10:32 am
ellis
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rich, let me give you my beat to fuck 3 week old chase shoes in return for new ones…its only fair sense they were pretty horrible. just kidding…but seriously
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July 22, 2009 at 10:32 am
the beetis
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they all look like shoe’s a disabled person wears. they suck
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July 22, 2009 at 10:33 am
ebineeeeza
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Lotek must be pretty deep in A22’s pocket because that tool posts every fucking thing they do on this site despite how much hate the posts get. Fuck, he’d probably post if they changed shoelace colors. No one wants to read this gay shit.
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July 22, 2009 at 10:35 am
David D. Davidson
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im really into lotek, ive had them since they came out…
rich has always been go to me if my shoes go sour, but its gonna take a lot for me to drop another $75 on loteks…. ill have to wait until people get them and try them out to make sure the soul and the glue is alright, but other then that i like the way they came out this season….
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July 22, 2009 at 10:39 am
craig passero
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This comment was actually posted by ME, chris zeppieri, craig was the last person to post on my computer i guess haha
July 22, 2009 at 10:40 am
Chris Zeppieri
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you guys are too cute.
July 22, 2009 at 10:45 pm
boomshit
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i like lotek.
ive always supported Lotek since the begining,
Lotek Mixtape revolutionized BMX and started NEWSKOOL trends.
they have always had a killer team and the BROOKLYNS were the shit. they lasted longer and looked better than any lotek ever. BRING EM BACK!!
ive purchased at LEAST 10 pairs since then hoping they would get better but 3 footjams in and they start to rip and unglue. I really hope the shoes get better this coming from a LOYAL LOTEK supporter NOT some Orchid lovin hater.
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July 22, 2009 at 10:46 am
FAIL
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my orchid van homans are still going strong after a year. you fail.
July 22, 2009 at 11:27 am
orchid lovin hater
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AYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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July 22, 2009 at 10:56 am
muffy F baby
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if they would do a regular non-retarded colorway of the troop I would be psyched. lotek should bring back the old bob scerbo colorway troops. Those were great and the souls lasted forever. I went through my last pair of nightwolfs in under three months. kind of weird how they seem to just piss on the supporters because the bmx market is small enough that we will buy rider owned stuff no matter what.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:02 am
Andy
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did you see what rich said? stronger glue? how about doing some new shoes. those are the same shit, different colors. are you waiting for another company to start so that you can rip them off too
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July 22, 2009 at 11:08 am
For Real
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Why would you want to own shoes for over 3 months? They start to stink. And a year! Those orchids must be nasty. I bet orchid dude gets no pussy.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:32 am
Your feet
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AMEN
July 22, 2009 at 1:28 pm
humous
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3 months? youve got to be kidding me…i finally blew up the toes of my valelly 1’s after 6 years! mild sole left but still, my average shoe life depends on how i wear em and if im skating in em. dont ride brakeless if you hate buying new shoes. and if they stink, you have a fucking clothes washer dont you?
July 22, 2009 at 1:36 pm
sam stanfield
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Different strokes. I like to ride in vulcanized soles.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:36 am
Check it out fellas.
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pretty much what ANDY said, bring back a regular non retarded coloerway of the troop , that will be sick, had 3 pairs of the the very first black ones, deff bring that and the brown ones back, come on, stop being a vans rip off / emo scen kid rolled into one and bring back the og shit sonny
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July 22, 2009 at 11:40 am
nahhhhhh nahhhhh my nigg
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who still calls people emo. get with the times. you must be from the midwest or listen to Insane Clown Posse and Cotton Mouth Kings.
July 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Shaka guy
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Lotek makes the ugliest shit ever. PLEASE STOP! Bmx is already oversaturated with lame ass shit.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:41 am
rich is retarded
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bring back throwbacks and brooklyns please, that’s all i need.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:55 am
philly.
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i already have the black/blue deltas on order, i hope they last me as long as the orifinal deltas did
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July 22, 2009 at 11:56 am
bill
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Best looking,cleanest shoes in BMX…period. Except for those denim/black troops.
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July 22, 2009 at 11:57 am
dayday
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all of these kids talk about how ugly the shoes are/but yet they say they rip off vans,and then go buy vans?…I find that funny! and loteks are awesome,they don’t hurt my feet like vans do and they last me longer than vans and to the kids that keep saying it’s all the same shoes in diff colors,realize every shoe company does that but changes a little something every time so they may look similar but they’re nothing alike.
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July 22, 2009 at 12:29 pm
lil nick
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I am running a pair of the old chase dehart loteks. fairly recent ones though. then they drop the V2 which is better. but why not make them good in the first place. wankers. either way, lotek wont get my custom EVER again. worst pieces of shit ive ever bought. sure ill give it to them that they look good. but i dont want that from my bmx shoes. I want shoes that can take a beating, and protect my feet from what bmx throws at them. surely it cant be THAT hard to combine form with function. you know what, Im gonna go out on a limb on record and say I KNOW i could make better shoes. Unfortunately, i know it wont happen because lotek has a huge following of riders that blows them for some reason, but i sincerely hope that market forces turns around and makes the company extinct.
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July 22, 2009 at 12:50 pm
bman
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I’m sure Lotek is sad to lose your ‘custom’.
I bet your shoes would rule.
July 22, 2009 at 6:09 pm
boohoohooo
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I’ve had Airwalks for 4 years that are only just giving up the ghost now. These cost £30. If a BMX shoe cost twice what a skate shoe does and only lasts a few weeks, I’ll continue to buy skate shoes. Sort it out BMX industry. Loteks rip, and Orchids look like special boy shoes.
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July 22, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Ben
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Loteks protect your ego, not your feet.
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July 22, 2009 at 1:59 pm
willy wonka
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i emailed rich about the warranty for my daks, fingers crossed!
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July 22, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Brandon
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well said BMAN…..
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July 22, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Pissed off Shoe guy
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But very poorly written.
July 22, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Bobby P.
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converse chucks are more tech advanced than any of this product line…where’d ya get these made?PURE FUCKIN GARBAGE
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July 22, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Factual
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kostons were horrible for riding,destroyed my heel in the first month of riding in them and lakai doesn’t make kostons anymore he skates for SB now.
July 22, 2009 at 7:05 pm
lil nick
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You guys should just get some Koston’s and shut the fuck up.
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July 22, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Koston
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i bet koston’s actually grip pedals………
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July 22, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Pissed off Shoe guy
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Nope
July 22, 2009 at 6:38 pm
RICHARD
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if you gonna rock the vulcanized sole, get yourself some Dr. Scholls.
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July 22, 2009 at 2:55 pm
LEx Luthor
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And some glue so you can repair them when they peel apart.
July 22, 2009 at 6:39 pm
RICHARD
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i’m not really feeling any of these shoes. some of them look absolutely terrible.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:14 pm
yeah
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throwbacks were the best bmx shoes ever. idk about this stuff though. mikes look good.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:23 pm
porad
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ive have a pair of coastals and the chase shadow shoe and theyre perfect! i havent had any problems like all you guys even with foot jams or whatever.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Edward
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and same here! coastals and deltas have been holding up for me since they came out.
July 22, 2009 at 7:06 pm
lil nick
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I’m sick of being guilted into buying this shit just because it apparently helps support bmx. Fuck that, you decide to make a product in order to make a profit off of riders, you should do better if you want my business.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:44 pm
How capitalism works
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xactly. THAT TEAM could sell shoes made of goat bladders, pretty much are now
July 22, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Drifter
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even though all my friends had bad luck with loteks, i still went out and bought a pair of deharts.
I must have been fucking retarded. First week the glue started coming undone just from walking around. then one foot jam tail whipper rips a hole on the side right to my sock. At this point i didnt care anymore. So i rode in them. 2 weeks later my foot jam foot completely fell apart in the front. It looked like a fucking Banana.
Sorry Lotek but you gotta change your shit.
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July 22, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Dustin Beauchene
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dear Rich please bring back the OG brown Troops.. that is all
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July 22, 2009 at 4:01 pm
AndyG
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I hope kids stop buying into this “Lotek supports BMX” bullshit. Lotek is all image and no fuckin backbone. No product integrity and zero artistic integrity.
Let’s also not forget that Lotek is owned/backed by TIP PLUS. A company who has fucked over several of the best pros and industry guys of the last decade. Multiple riders leaving tip/primo on bad terms and proven shitty shoes must mean something.
Lotek is cheap fashion and nothing more. I hope some of the Lotek riders will move on and stop leading kids to think this is a legit company.
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July 22, 2009 at 4:11 pm
largem
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Everyone you support should support us instead. we have top quality shoes with bmx in mind.
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July 22, 2009 at 4:20 pm
ORCHID
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those shoes are all ugly as shit. bmx shoes really are garbage. lakai has been the only brand i’ve trusted lately.
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July 22, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Clubber Lang
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time for a SHOE-T-OUT!
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July 22, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Doinker
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I have NEVER bought a pair of Loteks and I’ve been riding for years. I always buy shoes made by skate companies; usually Emerica because they have a huge variety of bad-ass looking shoes that come in all kinds of color ways. Also, because they last a good while.
With that being said, Loteks are gross anyway. There’s this guy I rode with a few times and he wears the burgundy Nightwolfs. His shoes look like fucking potatoes.
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July 22, 2009 at 5:36 pm
me?
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I got my Vans on but they look like sneakers.
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July 22, 2009 at 5:45 pm
tom perry
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boo vulk soles…
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July 22, 2009 at 5:54 pm
count grishnackh
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Fuck lotek, and fuck rich hirsch. They both are equally the worst things to happen to bmx.
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July 22, 2009 at 6:08 pm
fred shred
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all this shit talking is easy to fix…… if Lotek sucks so bad, etc….START YOUR OWN FUCKING SHOE COMPANY!!!!!………..now go back to your shitty life and stick a gerbil in your ass…….
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July 22, 2009 at 6:14 pm
HoodRatLover
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HURR DURR YOU’RE SO FUCKING SMART.
July 22, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Your mother
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i think lotek is the best bomb shit in the wizzorld!!! yeah boyeeee say what say what!
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July 22, 2009 at 8:00 pm
pb
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Adam is on lotek
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July 22, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Ali Bamba
yeah wtf rich designing good looking shoes which don’t fuck off after a few months and don’t conform to ANY modern shoe making convention is fucken easy. Any 16 year old with a fat bag o doritos and a funny uncle could do it.
Leave the hate to skaters…
worst quality ever. my 09 lotek mike are seamless only fcking glue! sh:t!
loteks break to fast bust have sick grip, one of the few bmx shoes that actally look good
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