Little review of the Busenitz RX vulcs. Copped em from an Adidas outlet store £24.95 shortly before Christmas and skated em with a fresh board. Stopped skating em about a week or two back, wasn't skating 24/7 during winter but definitely a few long sessions a week. Wasn't keen on the gold cw so I sharpied the shit

Anyway initial impressions; I had to go a full size up - not sure how or why but yeah a full size up. They fit really well, snug and not overly tight. Very comfy shoe in general. Padding/impact wise I'd probably want to chuck some better insoles in if you're jumping down shit but for me mostly skating smaller street sets/ledges/tranny/etc they were fine, no heel bruise or any general foot pain/injuries. Anyway here's after skating them (as you can tell I can not skate switch)




Skating wise they were pretty good to me, good compromise of board feel and padding. Toecap is somewhat pointy and has a great flick on it. Broke in after the first session and didn't end up particularly floppy, held their shape fine. Laces blew out pretty damn quick but thats a given, probably the only flaw with them. Grip was good, kept it's grippiness even after they started to flatten out on the bottoms - what was weird was that initially the grip on them felt terrible, like real slippy and shit dunno if it's a factory coating on the soles or what but it went away after an hour or two.
Durability wise you can tell from the pictures really, been trying to up my flatground game somewhat so lots of flicking. Front end held up and still had good flick after it started to deteriorate. Seemingly a few layers under there as although it looks like it's went through completely theres still an inner layer but I don't see it lasting much longer. It's also slightly starting to separate from the sole a little bit. Stitching started to blow out near the end too. Bumped into a guy skating the same pair and his had separated from the red heel tab completely - not sure if that's a defect or what as it didn't happen to mine.
tldr; good comfy shoe, good flick, probably not much in the way of ankle support/cushioning but they served me well. quick break in, decent durability and overall a relatively nice shoe to skate.