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I grew out of yellow laces in my early fifties. Standard white unwaxed for me. I also don’t have lights underneath my skates. Or large furry panda ears on the sides of my helmet.

You can always shim the rear tower. Or add a small shim under the heel of the footbed inside the skate.

Yup. If you want any custom work done on gloves and can wait, then CPR is your go to.

My wife has worn the derby rainbow laces in her skates for years. She says they are “very waxed.” She gets them from the derby laces store on Amazon.

Still got yellow laces on my old Grafs

No... God please no.....

There is no evidence that I am aware of that waxed laces are more prone to causing damage to skates than unwaxed. If anything, though it's assumption on my part, unwaxed would cause more wear and tear on a skate because some might pull tighter on them to get a good fit, stressing the eyelets, and that they need to be re-tied more often over the life of a boot. Regardless, we're going off topic. If we want to continue this discussion, we should break this out into a thread about waxed and unwaxed laces....

TF9 is top of the line, but True isn’t really feature oriented in that way. In my opinion, the features in new generations of skates are mostly there to justify changing to a new model year. True’s emphasis seems to line up with this. The core of what they do is incredibly solid and they prefer to tweak that to keep the focus on fit and function over making false promises about how a boot will make you faster. TF was their first line of ready to buy skates and the marketing focus was on how they were able to make a new shell to allow similar fit and performance from their custom offering at retail and an incredibly hard to refuse price point.

I am sure you've noticed by now that there is no comparable skate. I have the soldier black with aluminum chassis. Still going strong no tears, unbent frame. Some bleach and skillful use, they last. Those Black Boss skates have a magnesium frame with a ticking clock and a softer microfiber boot which wears quicker as well. They are nice in the moment, a little more buttery smooth. But alas, these soldiers were made to do just that, soldier on.