Best Rubber?

So I'm going to treat myself to a Christmas present. I wore out my Red Chili's some time ago and I want to get them resoled. I was very pleased with their rubber, though I thought it wore out a bit quick. I am not extremely concerned with sensitivity, but my main interest is durability and stickiness. My current prospects are the Vibram XS or XSV, Stealth C4 or Stealth Onyx. Which would you go with?

+1 for vibram

I'm a fan of the XS that comes on the Solutions, miura VS etc all of my sportivas have it now.

i haven't used onyx, but of the remaining three i prefer xsv.

I have Onyx on the 5.10 Gambit and haven't been impressed. May well be bad footwork, but sometimes the shoes slip from bumps and edges that it seems like other shoes would stick to.

onyx is the shiznit, plain and simple. i haven't climbed on anything that i feel is even close.

i really like the new vibram, semms to wear pretty well and work on lots of different stone.

Trojan Ultra Thin

Love the Onyx. Good news that Denver will finally have a local resoler.

There was an article a few years back in Rock & Ice or Climbing that tested climbing rubber. They could find no discernable difference in "stickiness" among the various brands.

Spadout did a test awhile back and Evolv actually ended up first over Vibram and 5.10.

Climbing Rubber Test

I prefer XS myself.

both of these tests didn't really simulate actual climbing very well though. and anybody who thinks boreal rubber is any better than wearing a vaseline covered hockey puck is out to lunch in a serious way. evolv rubber is pretty good. it climbs really well straight out of the box, fairly sticky. i find that it isn't stiff enough to edge very well though, and it wears really quick.

i am pretty much the imelda marcos of the climbing world, and i swear there isn't anything that can touch onyx. perfect blend of sticky as a mofo, stiff enough to edge like a mofo, and every pair of galileos that i have had (5), i have worn out the tops before i have worn out the bottoms. black gold, straight up.

slim wrote: i am pretty much the imelda marcos of the climbing world,

all right, you're gonna have to explain this one to me...

Locker wrote:C4 or Onyx is my recommendation locker owner/resoler Positive Resoles, Jtree (soon to be Positive Resoles Denver)

Be sure to announce when you get set up.
+1 for Onyx, although you have to simply trust your resoler that's what you're getting. 5.10 should print the logo on the sheets of the stuff.

Phil Lauffen wrote: all right, you're gonna have to explain this one to me...

Wife of a Philippines dictator who was deposed back in the 80's; left behind 1000's of shoes.

ShaunG wrote: A scientific test was performed in a lab and the winner...(drum roll) was Evolve. I think it is the Trax rubber that surpassed all other brands.

Could you provide a link to said test?

Which one "edges" the best?

Trojan Magnum Thin for protection.

Stealth anything for climbing. Onyx is probably the best you can get for resoles right now.IMHO Once that new Mystique rubber is available for resoles that will be sweet! That stuff is crazy sticky!!!