Customer Reviews Timberland FlyRoam Trail Low

Very cool looking shoes, but seem to run a little big. I love everything about them, except the laces. These are the narrowest, most slippery laces I’ve ever used. Tying them is like trying to tie wet spaghetti and they come loose, even when double knotted. I’ll try to find some better laces and keep the shoes.

Take my size info with a grain of salt, because I take out the insoles and put SuperFeet Green insoles in every pair of shoes I have due to plantar fasciitis. Fit's very good. The reason I gave it 3 stars: I have a love/hate relationship with these shoes. I love, love, love the comfort and the way they feel. Terrific. Look great. I hate, hate, hate the laces which came with them. They're a much thinner nylon lace than you would normally expect. They're difficult to tie, and they are difficult to KEEP tied, even with double-knots. Because they're slippery, it's very hard to get enough friction to keep the lace tension consistent across the shoe. You could go down a half-size, but I think that might defeat the purpose. If ever a shoe needed the bungie-type tension laces (Merrell does this a lot) it's these. Which brings me to the second issue. I sometimes sit at my desk and, like many people, might cross my feet at the ankles under the chair. This is normal. On two occasions now, the top eyelet hook of one shoe has caught on the laces of the other. The first time this happened, I didn't realize it, tried to stand up and fell over because my shoes were stuck together. It was funny at the time, no one was hurt. But it happened again. Sweet Jesus Murphy, had I not caught it in time before standing my head would have gone into the edge of my desk. I had to take the shoes off (while stuck together with crossed ankles - that was an adventure) to de-tangle them. Maybe it's just me. I'm going to try these with another set of "normal" laces and see how I fare. I really, really, like the look, feel, build quality and comfort, but the lacing is godawful and needs to be updated.