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Re: Roughtop or Wedgetop?

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Originally Posted by Chickenonastick View Post
A lot of people will recommend the use of blue nitrile roughtop tread since it is supposedly the longest lasting and has great traction on carpet. It is more durable than the orange natural rubber tread sold by Andymark. Although between the two, I am not sure if there a substantial different in traction.
In my team's experience, blue nitrile tread isn't much better than orange in terms of wear. It still wears relatively quickly, and just gets murdered by trying to use it on cement (for demos and such). Also, because of the toughness of the backing material, it is very hard to cut to size, even with sharp razors. It might have slightly more traction than other types of tread, but I'm not sure we'll be using it again next season.
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