Hiya and welcome to my DC Lotus snowboard boots assessment.

On this assessment I’ll check out the Lotus as all-mountain snowboard boots.

As per custom right here at SnowboardingProfiles.com I’ll give the Lotus a rating out of 100 (primarily based on a number of elements) and see how they evaluate with different ladies’s all-mountain boots.

General Score

Boots: DC Lotus

Worth: $289 (USD really useful retail)

Type: All-Mountain 

Flex Score: Medium (6/10)

Flex Really feel: Medium (5.5/10)

Score Rating: 79.4/100

In comparison with different Girls’s All-Mountain Boots

Out of the 14 ladies’s all-mountain boots that I rated:

Who’re the Lotus Most Suited to?

The Lotus are greatest suited to anybody on the lookout for mid-flex boots that strike that stability between slower, extra informal using however with sufficient help and stiffness to deal with increased speeds and deeper carves. 

They need to match effectively to a wide range of board flexes – something from 4/10 to 7/10 flex, which is a majority of girls’s boards. Ideally suited to that 5/10 to six/10 flex vary. 

Slightly too stiff for newcomers, IMO, except you are a much bigger rider or are significantly robust/athletic. For larger or stronger, extra athletic riders who desire a boot for exhausting charging and deep carves, you could desire one thing a bit stiffer. 

Rider Boot Measurement: Girls’s US8.0 (Journey Hera Management Boot)

Outersole Size:  29.1cm (mondo 25cm)

Distinction between Mondo & Outersole: 4.1cm

Backstay Top: 10.8″ (27.5cm)

Weight: 1lb 14oz (860grams)*

* Common of a pattern of  ladies’s boots I’ve weighed was 1lbs 15oz (880g). Heaviest I’ve weighed have been 2lbs 10oz (1200g) and lightest have been 1lb 10oz (740g). 

Match

Width: When first making an attempt on lateral aspect of toes (pinky aspect) and at widest a part of fore-foot was a bit tight. However after warmth molding and using in them, discovered there was fairly a little bit of room medially and laterally alongside complete foot. Whereas pushing (one foot strapped in), pushing foot really seems like it’s barely sliding round medially and laterally inside boot. So borderline too extensive for my toes. 

True to Measurement?: From preliminary attempt on toes have been simply brushing the ends, however weren’t crammed or uncomfortable in any means. That is often a very good signal that the match ought to be good. For the tops of my toes, there was a little bit of room to wiggle too. 

After warmth molding and using in them, toes not fairly touching the ends and there is nonetheless a very good quantity of wiggle room for tops of toes. 

They have been borderline too massive – and with extra using they might possible pack out extra, so I really feel like, significantly when taking width and ankle match under consideration (see above and beneath), the 7.5 may have been a greater match (I am usually an 8). So, I would say bordering on operating 1/2 a measurement too massive.

Prime of Foot (Instep): From first attempt on there have been no strain factors. I would say a medium quantity of room. Prime of foot touching roof of the boot however no strain level. After warmth molding I felt like they have been fairly roomy on prime of the foot – barely touching prime of foot.

Round Ankles: There have been no strain factors across the ankles – nearly the alternative, felt just like the match wasn’t tight sufficient.

General, feels massive for a W8 – a number of room (nearly an excessive amount of, particularly medially and laterally) inside boot. Unfastened heel match.

Match with bindings

The Lotus have been a bit bulkier across the ankle space than my management boots, so I needed to loosen my ankle strap a bit bit in comparison with how they have been setup for my management boots (Journey Hera). This additionally meant that they have been a snugger match width-wise within the bindings, however not to some extent the place they have been too tight or something. 

Toe strap match effectively on the identical size I’ve it for my management boots. 

Responsiveness

For tight turns at slower speeds, they weren’t nearly as good as my management boots (Journey Hera), however I believe a whole lot of that was all the way down to the dearth of heel maintain I felt. Heel slip made it really feel a bit slower to show. 

For increased velocity carves,  they felt about the identical as my management boots, however I felt they might have been higher than my management boots, if it wasn’t for that lack of heel maintain. Did not discover the heel slip as a lot at increased speeds as I did at slower speeds, but it surely was nonetheless evident. 

Heel Maintain

As you’ll be able to in all probability guess from the responsiveness part above, the heel maintain was not good for my toes in these boots. This is perhaps fully totally different in a 7.5 and could possibly be largely all the way down to the boots being a bit massive general. However I felt a whole lot of heel elevate in these boots, significantly for slower velocity tight turns. 

Adjustability

The 2 boas are fully unbiased (aspect boa controls decrease half of outer boot and entrance boa controls prime half). The liner is tightened with a normal lacing harness and was typical – there’s velcro throughout the highest of the liner that helps with getting the liner extra cosy across the shins. 

Consolation

They have been very snug. From preliminary attempt on and all by the on-snow testing I did not get any strain factors or cramping or numbness. However I believe I’d sacrifice a bit little bit of that additional consolation for higher heel maintain and extra responsiveness (which the 7.5 would possible present). 

Shock Absorption

They did a extremely good job of absorbing shock. Had been noticeably higher than my management boots. 

Entry/Exit

To get my foot in initially was barely harder than regular. Not like exceedingly tough or something however needed to work the foot in a bit with them feeling tighter across the ankle than regular, when making an attempt to get foot in. After warmth molding it was fairly a bit simpler although and in the end once I received my foot in, they definitely weren’t tight across the ankle – to some extent the place I’d have most well-liked them tighter. 

The liner lacing is a typical lacing harness with velro across the prime of the liner that helped with snugness. It is an additional step, however price having. Then the outer boot is a typical double boa, which is quick and straightforward to make use of. 

Try the breakdown of the rating within the desk beneath.

The Lotus are versatile boots which can be simple to make use of, snug and will present a very good mixture of being good for each sluggish velocity using and better velocity using, if you may get the match proper. 

I discovered that they have been a bit too massive for me within the ladies’s US8 (which is my typical measurement), and I wish to attempt the 7.5 to see if that is a greater match. Significantly for heel maintain, which I discovered was not excellent for me within the W8. That may possible additionally improve the response efficiency, significantly for tight turns at slower speeds.