I just bought my first road bike with SPD pedals ('04 Lemond Buenos Aires), but I don't have the shoes yet. I spent a little time in a bike store trying on a few shoes, but, if they were wide enough, they had over an inch of free room in the toe. How much does that matter? It seems to me that there is not much advantage to having stiff shoes if my feet can shift forward within the shoes.
I am looking for SPD compatible shoes with recessed cleats - decent shoes, not too expensive. An recommendations for shoes that are good for wide feet?
I am looking for SPD compatible shoes with recessed cleats - decent shoes, not too expensive. An recommendations for shoes that are good for wide feet?
the first ones if found that fit my EE feet are pearl izumi mountain bike shoes. i've heard that carnac shoes are also wide.
I have size13 3E feet and use Sidi Dominator Mega MTB shoes. For the road I use Lake shoes, don't remember the name but I think they are called LX200 Extreme. Both shoes are great. Chris Hughes
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I just bought my first road bike with SPD pedals ('04 Lemond Buenos Aires), but I don't have the shoes yet. I spent a little time in a bike store trying on a few shoes, but, if they were wide enough, they had over an inch of free room in the toe. How much does that matter? It seems to me that there is not much advantage to having stiff shoes if my feet can shift forward within the shoes.
I am looking for SPD compatible shoes with recessed cleats - decent shoes, not too expensive. An recommendations for shoes that are good for wide feet?
I am looking for SPD compatible shoes with recessed cleats - decent shoes, not too expensive. An recommendations for shoes that are good for wide feet?
I use Sidi Dominators. They are SPD compatible, at least the MTB variant. They fit my wide, messed-up feet pretty well.
One major complaint though. If you stand on the pedal without clicking in (say just to push off at a stop) it's easy for your foot to slip off the pedal, and ooof! The hard plastic things between the soles and the ground (what would be called the "cleats" if we were talking soccer shoes, say) are very slippery. My foot also sometimes rolls when I'm walking in them, and I lose my balance a trifle, again due to these plastic supports.
I still wouldn't go back to my narrow Shimanos, though.
