Shoelace Lengths
 

This should be easier than taking the strings off and measuring:

What's the lace length for New Balance 450 and 995?

That dude spends too much time thinkin' about shoelaces.

It's an important topic. I've had to deal with laces that are too short, too long, and that require a fork to come undone if pulled too hard. Still looking for that perfect shoelace for my plate shoes.

I'd prefer to not have a degree in basket weaving to get my answer. I'm sure someone here has had to buy new laces and has a direct answer.

However, some of those lace designs would look great on my 995's. Should I go with yellow/white or pink/white?

I bought 54" for my NB plate shoes. The factory ones were 53"...I couldn't find a 53"...those will do.

Count the number of eyes. Look on the back of shoe lace package. If you like them longer buy longer.

Easier? Maybe. Quicker? Hardly.

I already took mine out and measured. Feel free to take my word for it.

My only advice is to replace the laces on New Balance shoes as soon as you take them out of the box. Get some outdoor or sport laces (outdoor are stronger) and re-lace. The factory laces are horse ...

You and Goldilocks.

I use leather boot laces for my plate shoes.

NB should be ashamed of the laces they put in those new shoes. It's like buying a Hummer and realizing it only has an AM radio!

It's America, right? Cheap is the order of the new millennium. It's more profitable to cut corners. Damn the consumer (sucker).

johnny - thanks for the answer on the plate shoes.

Does anyone have an answer for the base shoes?

agree...they are cruddy

They are terrible laces. Especially the plate shoe. Go to a military supply store. Buy some #5 black parachute chord. You can pull and pull and it wont break!

Why ask that question? If you have an extra 15 minutes (According to Finnerty) just pull the laces out and measure them. It really is not as complicated as you are making it.

I once broke first the lace on one shoe, and then the other in the same sitting. Plate shoes. I began shoehorning them on at 1:35 p.m. By the time I had finished tearing both laces and re-lacing both shoes, it was 1:50 p.m. and I was supposed to be at the field. That was all the 15 minutes was about.

Try to re-lace two New Balance plate shoes in under 15 minutes and then get back to me.

For what it's worth, I went to my local Red Wing boot center and got their waxed work boot laces for my NB 350's and 450's. They have held up for 2 seasons.

I wasn't trying to provoke a diss. I'll give your suggestion a try.

If a coach asks you how wide the running lane is down the first base line, do you tell him to get a ruler?

It was a simple question with what I thought was a simple answer. Apparently not.

Okay. I'll start the timer, then go out to the car and retrieve my NB's and spare laces. They need changing anyway.

Ready? Go.

Done
 

Done.

8 minutes, 37 seconds.

BTW 54" laces

:)

So a NASCAR crew could change 'em out in about 14 seconds. :D

Nahhhh. Probably 3 minutes.

They don't come off as quickly as you'd guess. You can't just yank them from the bottom. But new ones go on quickly.

I tried to make it realistic. I walked to my car and grabbed my bag and brought it in the house and up the stairs to my office. When I was done lacing them, I put them on and tied them, put the bag back in the car and then stopped the timer.

Already provided.

Send me a pair and I'll let you know.

I've only seen an answer for the plate shoes. Care to enlighten me?

GREAT tip. The stuff I got is called 550 Type III Commercial Nylon Paracord. 550lb. test and made in the USA. 10 bucks for 100 ft. Thanks.

100 ft? You must have some huge shoes.

45 inches on my base shoes

550 cord, we used it in the military, love that stuff... but im not using it on my shoes, and those will not break.

A three page thread on shoe lace length.


...only on this website.

I was going to start a new thread, but this kind of fits here.

What do you guys use to black out the "N" on the NB 450's and 350's? I did a search but didn't find much.

Thanks.

Nuff for 50 umpires....

I was thinking the same thing.

I'm thinking a Sharpie might work. I haven't worried too much about it...I know some groups are pretty strict about the "all black" fortunately our group doesn't care that much so I don't worry about it.

I know Sharpie works on leather and rubber, but that stuff that the "N" is made of isn't really either of those. I don't have to black it out either because no one that assigns games here cares, but I thought about doing it anyway.

I guess most of the posters on this thread don't have games to work yet. Otherwise, three pages on shoelaces and sharpies? WTF? YGTBSM!

Man, you guys need to work some games, soon.

At least no arguments or accusations yet. That usually flares up pretty often this time of year.

Good luck in the upcoming season. Hope it gets here for you soon.

What about the ends? How do you keep them from fraying?

Scrimmage today. Games start for real on the 23rd.

MajorDave,
Seems the folks are interested in starting/continuing the season with good, well recommended shoe laces.
That is a good idea.

Melt them with a lighter and flatten them a bit by pressing the softened nylon against cold metal. A word of caution: If the lace catches fire, the drips of melted nylon are hotter than the flame that melted it. Be careful.

You know there hasn't been a good ball bag thread in a while now.

There is one out there that keeps your balls dry! Isn't there? :-)

Right on cue.
http://forum.officiating.com/basebal...rey-black.html