Funny. That or skinny jeans just weren't meant for him.

One day, Berrecloth will have a cool brand of helmet and goggle. One day.....

They couldn't move them for that and other reasons. They only put out a red/yellow/black color and one other color. Plus they were mid-ankle(think Shimano Am-45) so off the bike they didn't do it for most. Plus sticky rubber was new tech. It all worked out in the end. Glad 2 see Rennie riding again. Have seen him manual up over a double & land riding out a nose manual

Karpiel, you're probably right. With me, it's the little things that are easy to get right in life, so why fudge those things. I mean "taping" a pair of them up? Steber's company had the original idea to use slow rebound rubber in tires and sourced their original shoe from 5.10. They introduced them and put them on the feet of their riders, Kovarik and Rennie and Hill who was still just starting out. But the Intense shoe never caught on and it was all they could do to sell 300 pairs in a little over 2 years. Once bike parks came on the scene and those guys were still running their old beat down shoes at World Cups and what few guys I knew raved about them, I had to try them but they were sold out. And the reason 5.10's are so successful today is not because of me or Rennie. It's because 5.10 did the right thing at the right time.

He did NOT bring 5.10's back. We started a freaking internet thread about getting them to be reproduced after Intense couldn't sell their entire stock of 300 pairs. I personally spoke with Jennifer (Steber's wife). She told me who was responsible for them at 5.10. I spent hours on the phone with Eric, their former marketing director. I still have the first pair of the new black ones at home that were sent to me by 5.10 to test out. Once we (we being you, me & the rest of the world) gave feedback through threads I posted across the world, Eric agreed to reproduce them. He knew nothing about DH and asked for suggestions of who he could sponsor. I personally approaced Sean Heimdall of Monster at US Nationals and got Sam Hill in touch with Eric. I contacted Rennie personally and talked back and forth with him through MSN Messenger for a good 2 weeks and got him set up with 5.10 Also did my best to get Kovarik back in touch, but he never responded to Rennie or my emails, but finally 5.10 got him to call back. I know it's just one simple sentence, but him taking credit for bringing back 5.10's is so far off from true. I worked by butt off to get them made again and so did Eric. All Rennie did was be lucky I got his email from Heimdall.

If you ride the ESI grips, don't leave your gloves at home. They're slicker than whale boogers on bare skin if you sweat or it rains.