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Bluto
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I have wondered for a long time, back since I first considered whether to get a set of Cyclebinding
pedals, whether some enterprising manufacturer would make clipless-compatible shoes that look like,
well, shoes.
I'm not talking walkable vs non-walkable shoes here (non-walkable I dismiss outright as non-shoes),
but rather a clipless-compatible shoe that an adult of reasonable judgement would see fit to wear to
a nice restaurant or nightclub or to keep company with the in-laws. Plain is fine but a goofy
Nike-alike is not acceptable.
It occurs to me that there are a lot of people, myself included, who never own a dumb-looking jock
shoe unless it's free. I'd rather stick with flat pedals than submit my feet to ballet slippers as
interpreted by a Japanese sci-fi toymaker. Yet it seems that for every fifty kinds of cycling shoes,
forty-seven are exactly that, one's a skateboard-shoe lookalike, one's a cross-trainer lookalike,
and the other is styled to resemble a Walmart-quality hiking boot.
How about one that looks like a real shoe? Any advice? Is there anybody else who would buy such a
thing if it were available?
For those who haven't seen a regular shoe in a while, here is an example:
http://www.redwingshoes.com/shoe-zoom.cfm?style=107
Chalo Colina
pedals, whether some enterprising manufacturer would make clipless-compatible shoes that look like,
well, shoes.
I'm not talking walkable vs non-walkable shoes here (non-walkable I dismiss outright as non-shoes),
but rather a clipless-compatible shoe that an adult of reasonable judgement would see fit to wear to
a nice restaurant or nightclub or to keep company with the in-laws. Plain is fine but a goofy
Nike-alike is not acceptable.
It occurs to me that there are a lot of people, myself included, who never own a dumb-looking jock
shoe unless it's free. I'd rather stick with flat pedals than submit my feet to ballet slippers as
interpreted by a Japanese sci-fi toymaker. Yet it seems that for every fifty kinds of cycling shoes,
forty-seven are exactly that, one's a skateboard-shoe lookalike, one's a cross-trainer lookalike,
and the other is styled to resemble a Walmart-quality hiking boot.
How about one that looks like a real shoe? Any advice? Is there anybody else who would buy such a
thing if it were available?
For those who haven't seen a regular shoe in a while, here is an example:
http://www.redwingshoes.com/shoe-zoom.cfm?style=107
Chalo Colina