In reply to Cumbrian Climber:
> Taken over by Adidas. Basically there is money in bike shoes and not a lot in climbing shoes so it's not much of a surprise that 5.10 climbing shoes are hard to come by.
I was getting a coffee at Fairholmes, which is in the middle of a lot of the best mountainbiking in the Peak, on Sunday. There were a bunch of mates there all covered in mud, so they had obviously made an early start, doing the same. They all had on your classic trail riding gear, knee and elbow pads etc. and had fancy bikes, but I noticed they were all wearing 5.10 shoes. And as I rode on I started looking and it did seem 5.10s were the most popular shoes among mountainbikers who were obviously serious enough to buy all the gear.
You walk along Stanage on a nice day, or go to Awesome Walls on a bad day, and think there do seem to be a lot of rock shoes sold, but it doesn't seem that any one firm have such a big chunk of the market as 5.10 do with MTB shoes. It would be interesting to know if more specialist MTB shoes get sold in the UK than rock shoes. Anyone have any ideas on relative participation numbers?