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The North Face Rucky Chucky GTX XCR

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The North Face Rucky Chucky GTX XCR
We're pretty much the target market and the shoe was fit and forget. No issues, no problems

Our Review

Reviewed: 13 January 2010 by Jon
What Are They For? The Rucky Chucky GTX XCR is TNF's Gore-Tex lined version of the standard Rucky Chucky trail-running shoe designed to be able to cope more effectively with off road running in a wide range of conditions and temperatures.It's not a full-on fell shoe, more designed to be used ...  Continue reading

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Discussions

Who comes up with the names for this stuff? Rucky Chucky? Thrust chassis? Snake plate (or was it snale (snail?) plate? ).

They need to get the IKEA naming department involved in naming outdoors gear! Do you reckon they'd do any better?

Posted: 13/01/2010 at 14:42

Rucky Chucky is - apparently - an infamous race. Or trail. Or hill. Or something. In the States. As far as the rest goes, runniing shoes are made almost entirely from high tec marketing terms... It's the law.

Posted: 14/01/2010 at 10:22

It's a famour river crossing on the most famous of the US 100 milers, the Western States.

I'm sure they've got loads of of fantastic technology in them - most of it made out of hi spec sapce-age metal judging by the weigth of them! 

Why on earth would anyone want to run in a pair of shoes weighing nearly a kg!  You could get a pair of far better inov-8 trail or fell shoes for a less than half of that weight!

They might make a good approach/walking shoe, buit can't think why you'd want to run in anything so heavy.

Posted: 18/01/2010 at 12:38

well, I wouldn't, but then I'm 5 foot ten and weigh 65 kg. Somebody quite a bit bigger might well appreciate something sturdier, particularly if you are running on well-defined tough trails and not boggy fells like we're used to in this country.

Posted: 18/01/2010 at 12:56

I'm nearly 16 stone and run 50-100 mile rocky trail ultramarathons, and I wouldn't go anywhere near them.

each to their own though, I guess.

Posted: 18/01/2010 at 13:19



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