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Has anyone tried Scarpa Prime shoe yet? They recently turned up in my local Decathlon https://www.decathlon.co.uk/prime-climbing-shoes-id_8399424.html and it seems that they might be made only for Decathlon as they don't even appear on the http://www.scarpa.co.uk/ website. They look very good value at 55 quid, rather like in style my old favourite Scarpa Forces that I very sadly recently binned, but I was wondering how they can be half the price of the newest versions of the Forces. Has anyone got a pair and if so, does the rubber (not Vibram like Scarpa normally use) seem any less good than normal climbing shoe rubber?

In reply to TobyA:

Scarpa.co.uk is the UK specific page that only shows the models the UK distributor imports. You can find that model in any other scarpa.(X) domain under the name 'origin'.

ETA links

https://www.scarpa.com/origin
http://www.scarpa.net/en/origin.html

In reply to Mr Lopez:

Yeah, I saw the Origin shoes on the Scarpa NA page, although they are different colour so perhaps that's why I didn't twig they are otherwise the same! There are a few reviews of the Origins around, although I suspect they climb better with yellow stripes as clearly they look cooler.