All soaps fall apart eventually. With the new styles (shoes with express plates) the rubber will eventually come apart where it connects to the plate. It won't make the shoe any less comfortable, or grind worse, or anything like that, but if you want your shoes to always look nice and new then don't get them.

Every rose has it's thorn. My express plate started to seperate from the rubber, but that will happen because your foot bends, so the shoe has to. I find the models with replacable plates don't experience that, although they tend to start to seperate around the edges of the shoe.

Face it though, no shoe lasts forever, i went through my express as fast as i went through any other shoe. So far my boltars are doing great though.

Oh, and you can alwyas use rubber cement to recemment the rubber and plate togehter if it bothers you.

dude, it takes months for the express plate to start to crack on the sides....and that doesnt affect your grinding at all...in fact,

the tips of my express started to crack about 5 months into having the shoe......Its now 8 months later, and those cracks have turned into lock-in grooves

Im happy with my expresses but they are not my favorite shoe.

always go 1 size up