I'm a Chaco Z2 guy. I tried a pair of Astrals that had trimmer sole profile, and less chunky sole. They also had straps between the toe that I favored of Chacos since my first pair in earliest '90s when they lead me away from Tevas. As a connected foot cyclist for physiological reasons, I find almost no shoe comfortable on platform pedals, they all seem so overbuilt compared to my Sidis.
The Astrals flip flop strap design, like the Bedrocks, with an adjustable sub strap that can go behind the heel from the span of each of the two main ones, or flip forward in front of your lower shin so you can get in and out without using it. Seemed great. What brought me back to Chacos was the security on my feet without constriction. The Astral's rear strap was the only adjustment and simply shoved my foot into the thong yoke of the main straps, and that was lots of the time. Various sandals I've tried don't have a secure fit, discovered in the midst of whitewater paddlesports, river access or on-trail experiences. I'm not apologetic if such rotates around my foot while seeking footing in the water, in a boat, on the trail or the messy mix of any. My feet are "low volume" in the shoe-boot lexicon, they measure just a bit wider than a dead-on medium in the linear scale of the Brannock device, but in circumference are pretty trim. I have to pick and choose to find shoes that will nominally close around my foot without producing wrinkles or puckers in material excess of what my foot cross section requires. Chacos have had the best encircling strap arrangement sandal (without turning into a vented shoe) to keep the sole on the bottom of my foot through a variety of situations. Again, my riding impression isn't a good measure since I'm not fully comfortable outside of cycling shoes when riding. Our friend who most utterly prefers riding in her Chacos: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MTNWqvDJVIo/XTZvosw_FqI/AAAAAAAAT9k/dziL2Wl6vTEf9ai-5BeIZnS3PEl-GUobQCL4CGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_1364.HEIC> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g6SpiRbFLY8/XTiLjl_1mVI/AAAAAAAAUAs/MSHNgDj52oEqxcLO2XQSzVhkJmbtps8UACL4CGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_1679.HEIC> Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 10:00:04 PM UTC-4, Dave Grossman wrote: > > Need some opinions from anyone who has owned Chacos and Bedrocks......I > know you are out there. > > My old Z1's are coming undone at the outsole. I might send them in for > resoling, but I am debating trying the Bedrocks. I've read great reviews > and heard some IRL positive feedback but the toe strap scares me a bit. I > have heard they are great for riding as well, which I do a lot in my Chacos > too. Mostly they we be for all sorts of warm weather adventuring when I > don't want to take my hikers. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e7c12f94-bdbb-4f6e-8cbe-6c512e711292%40googlegroups.com.
