Beta shoes
07-21-07 | 05:20 PM
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Bata shoes
Back in the day I used to wear Beta Biker shoes with my clips. They were basically light weight tennis shoes with a thicker sole area under the ball of your foot. Anyone still have these or possibly have a source for them?
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07-21-07 | 05:31 PM
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I still have a pair that I purchased long ago. I burned through a lot of them in the 80s. Wish they were still made... but alas they are long gone.
07-22-07 | 12:54 AM
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I think you mean Bata.
07-22-07 | 06:23 AM
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07-22-07 | 07:22 AM
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07-22-07 | 09:35 PM
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I still have a pair of Beta's I wear occasionally when I take out my Motobecaune Grand Touring. The pair is almost new. I wish they still made them. Like one perswon noted, I wore them alot "back in the day"...Maybe that is why I only wear them occasionally, so they would last longer. I wear my No Sweat Chuck Taylor knock-offs when the Beta's are in my closet....
I still have a pair of Beta's I wear occasionally when I take out my Motobecaune Grand Touring. The pair is almost new. I wish they still made them. Like one perswon noted, I wore them alot "back in the day"...Maybe that is why I only wear them occasionally, so they would last longer. I wear my No Sweat Chuck Taylor knock-offs when the Beta's are in my closet....
07-22-07 | 09:42 PM
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Here are pics of there Maryland factory. Guess the shoe shaped building thing was a figment of my hazy teenage memory
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07-23-07 | 11:22 AM
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The company actually has a very interesting history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bata_Shoes
Those photos of the Bata factory in Maryland remind me of some of the shoe factories where my father worked in Johnson City and Endicott, NY.
Those photos of the Bata factory in Maryland remind me of some of the shoe factories where my father worked in Johnson City and Endicott, NY.
06-10-14 | 07:51 PM
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Long extinct company.
06-10-14 | 07:58 PM
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It's Bata, not Beta. Their HQ used to be in Toronto, Canada. They're still around - sort of - but they're not the company they used to be.
Bata Shoes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bata Shoes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
06-10-14 | 08:14 PM
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06-11-14 | 04:35 AM
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The company actually has a very interesting history: Bata Shoes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Those photos of the Bata factory in Maryland remind me of some of the shoe factories where my father worked in Johnson City and Endicott, NY.
Those photos of the Bata factory in Maryland remind me of some of the shoe factories where my father worked in Johnson City and Endicott, NY.
Fish heads, they make your feet feel fine.
Fish heads, they cost a dollar ninety-nine
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06-11-14 | 04:44 AM
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06-11-14 | 06:08 AM
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Read they are making them again in New Zealand
https://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/iconic-bata-bullets-make-comeback-5706766
https://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/iconic-bata-bullets-make-comeback-5706766
06-11-14 | 06:29 AM
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I remember the Bata factory between Edgewood (Deadwood) MD and Aberdeen (Aberdump) MD. The neighbor two doors down from where I grew up worked there for a time.
06-11-14 | 07:59 AM
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The Bata Bullet's were a cost effective 'knock off' of a cheap, canvass Converse made shoe...I had a pair of both growing up...great memories of buying decent foot wear for under 10 bucks...Those were the day's.....
Take care and ride on 'Bullet's' LOL
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06-11-14 | 08:03 AM
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