Where do you buy your cycling shoes, and are yours any good?

[Wayne pudding Mol]

Just try them on properly whatever you do or you'll end up blowing a fortune and having 3 brand new pairs of shoes like me and hating them all. The new version of an old favourite isn't always the same fit. I loved my guarne then foolishly set them on fire trying to dry them for stage 2. Even my 9 year old daughter told me I'm an idiot. Rode 2 more days with duct tape and came home and ordered their latest version. Hate them but it's all about really trying them on first.

[SwissVan]

Just try them on properly whatever you do or you'll end up blowing a fortune and having 3 brand new pairs of shoes like me and hating them all. The new version of an old favourite isn't always the same fit. I loved my guarne then foolishly set them on fire trying to dry them for stage 2. Even my 9 year old daughter told me I'm an idiot. Rode 2 more days with duct tape and came home and ordered their latest version. Hate them but it's all about really trying them on first.

Set them on fire LOL

Sounds like a good story for around the braai

 

TIP: To help dry shoes out, take the inners out, open them up as much as possible and then stuff them full of news paper, repeat after a few hours with dry news paper.

 

It won’t dry them out 100% over night but it does dry them out quite a bit.

[slickjay007]

I like the fit of Louis Garneau MTB shoes.

 

On my second pair of Granite II which i normally purchase from https://www.buycycle.co.za/.

 

Pricing is not that bad either

[Shebeen]

For a start, are we talking MTB or Road shoes or both?

 

in my opinion 90% of the shoes available today are better than the best shoes found 10/15 years ago.

 

You are spoilt for choice, but since your feet are unique you need to find what works best for you. there is no allround brilliant shoe that works for everyone. in saying that, I do like my shimano MTB skoene

[DieselnDust]

It's always best to get your feet measured for length width across the ball and heel width and then take it from there.

 

Some people have narrow feet front to back

Others have wide fore foot with thin toes others fat toes.

Some have broad square heels others round heels narrow or broad. There are shoe brands that accommodate these features in the design of the last.

 

Determine what category your foot falls into. Running shoe stores generally do very good foot assessments. Some of the old gentleman's tailored stores also still do proper foot measurements.

 

There is an added complication in that some brands change the last design as they move down the model range, I.e. The shoe gets more volumous in the same size as they move into the mid range product because the target market moves from race snake to weekend warrior.

 

Arm yourself with proper measurements and then add 3-5mm to obtain the size shoe you are needing in centimetres (cm or jpn size on the box)

Then try on before committing.

[hboli4]

I bought a pair of Catlike Whisper MTB shoes 4 years ago and they are still going strong, pricey for what I was used to(Olympic) but will not buy anything else again.

[DieselnDust]

I bought a pair of Catlike Whisper MTB shoes 4 years ago and they are still going strong, pricey for what I was used to(Olympic) but will not buy anything else again.

 

Highly underrated yet extremely comfortable shoes those Catlike Whisper MTB's

[Rick Sanchez]

Just bought a pair of Scott Comp Boa's from Bike Addict at an excellent price (not much more than the Ryder ones).

Also using these on the road bike and they are pretty awesome and comfortable for the price!

[RocknRolla]

I bought a pair of Catlike Whisper MTB shoes 4 years ago and they are still going strong, pricey for what I was used to(Olympic) but will not buy anything else again.

 

 

Been in catlikes for a while as well.

 

Great on the bike, but farking torture to portage in. Had to do a lot of walking in soft sand a while ago, and It ended up being torture (I understand the sand in the shoes made the issue worse, but They are not made for portaging further than a few hundred metres in one race on one day.

 

But as a cycling shoe they are great, Had some spez shoes before and they had sole delamination (after about two years or so)