So before I receive "buy the boot that fits" advice. Today I spent 4 hours in two different shops getting my feet poked, prodded and rammed in to various brightly coloured torture devices which make up the boots which apparently fit me.
My Feet:
narrow and 'slender' according to one guy in the shop.
left foot (big toe especially) is about 4mm longer than the right (dropped a dive bottle on it a few years ago).
Seems I am RIGHT on the limit of a 29 but the 30s they had in stock and I tried were all too roomy.
The Boots
Salmon Questmax (100) 29
Salomon SPK (100) 29.5
Atomic Hawx (110) 29
FT Dropkick 29.5
These all fitted my foot well with varying positives and negatives. All except the SPKs had a considerable tightness on my left big toe. My right foot felt perfect in the Dropkick. Close fitting but comfortable and well supported. BUT my big toe in the left boot was pretty painful. In the shell only fitting there was about a finger's width between my heel and the boot.
The guy in the shop was cautious as to whether he could make it fit but said he 'probably' could. Naturally i don't want to shell out all my savings and have a tech work on the boot for hours only to have a boot that doesn't quite fit.
So my question is: How much can you realistically stretch a FT length-wise. Especially considering there is no intuition lining over the toe piece... Or am I better off going for a slightly looser fitting boot or shelling out the extra $$$ for the SPKs which didn't feel as close/performance fitting generally.
Thanks for the Advice NS.
