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so welcome to another lockdown edition of bug for Tuesday's never filmed on a Tuesday today's topic
shoes which has been asked for a lot which are the best cycling shoes what is a shoe it's quite
apparent that you don't know what a shoe it seems you aren't wearing it cycling shoes or should they
go on your feet a cycling shoe has a very specific and unique requirement in comparison to any other
shoe in the it has a mechanical function by way of having a cleat adhere to it one second can't
be dealing with that the sole should be stiff and you know the soles are generally made up of either
a carbon fiber or usually a plastic or carbon reinforced plastic there are a varying degree
of different uppers available different materials of offer and there are a million and one different
closures why do they need to be stiff why don't need to be stiff because it's gonna stabilize
to support your foot if you are think about the size of a pedal so I cling pedal it's quite a
small surface area compared to the size of a man's foot so if it the stiffness enables you to drive a
little bit more power also helps stabilize the foot so that's the predominant reason why you
wanted to be stiff there are some budget shoes out there I will remain anonymous that you can
pretty much fall in half this it's important to understand is the single most important part of
your equipments more important than your bike it's more important those carbon wheels that you are
looking at eyeing up this is where all the power goes or doesn't is the case usually is I think the
single most important consideration to be made about a shoe is that it fits a shoe is only as
good how well it fits you so you could have in my opinion the best shoe on Planet Lake CX 403
by this you don't fit everyone yeah you got really super super skinny feet not gonna fit you the shoe
really has to fit you got to look and assess and understand foot and the needs of the foot
and most people have two feet both of those feet are different most people have different size foot
one foot pronates more than the others the act of the a controlling in some people super Nate there
are a million and one considerations to be taken in to be made when deciding for shoe that kicks
things off the fit is absolutely categorically the single most important thing and when you're buying
shoes it's important to buy shoes from someone who understands feet don't walk into a shop and
go off and try these on in size ten because you're not size turn you're probably an eight with wide
feet you've been wearing shoes too large for all those years that's the single most common blunder
that I that I encounter with people writing shoot is they they go and they buy something Italian
because they like the look of it and they've got big fat duck feet because there's having bet the
entire duck their entire life and then they go up a size or two to accommodate with the foot
the cleat location ends up to you for forward you get knee pain or saddle problems or foot issues or
you know a plethora of different ailments that we commonly associate with with riding a bicycle if
you don't have a means to have a bike fit how can you find a shoe that fits you well we are actually
sending quite a lot of shoes out I don't sort of shoes online because I don't know the concept of
it but we are sending Colorado shoes abroad these days with riders are emailing this the dimensions
of their feet so you draw around the outside of your foot give measure the widest part measure
the longest part send us a picture of your feet and we'll give you a pretty good guesstimate or
understanding of which shoes gonna work for you I'm only providing that to people who are buying
shoes for me I'm not going to just give you free advice for the whole time we do enough
of that on YouTube but if you're looking to buy pair of shoes from us would aim to get the best
shoe for you just to doing you just by saying it remotely one way of doing it might be to look at
your feet for a start it would be the the first starting point have you got wide feet have you
got a narrow they do bunions this kind of stuff generally having a bit of an understanding of what
your feet look like will give you a relatively good understanding of which you should usually
buy so quite often we for example I get people who come in here they've got really skinny feet
and they've got white fitting shoe to solve issues like pain on the outside of the foot
which to be honest with you is driven by and lack of arts for clean location pedal system listening
to one side saddle beans your high there are a million and one causes for you getting pain on
the outside of your feet and it's almost never to do with fit of the shoe I guess one way of
determining if it's the fit of the shoe is does that pain come about over time or does it come
on straightaway it comes on straightaway it's the shoe if it doesn't and it builds over time
it's something else entirely it's about to have a look at your have a look at your feet have an
understanding of your feet and you know then start looking at shoes that work best for that foot type
so slender feet generally we tend to put people into a city there are certain models of like CX
3 3 2 for example we're really well with slender fee 0 I quite like the Empire but not the not on
knitted ones those are generally the only issues actually I tend to put people into if if they've
got narrow feet far more common is that is a wide foot the best-selling shoe we sell out of
here in the lake CX 2 3 8 by by a very very long way and equally there are there a wide
fitting options Shimano for example does the S fire in a wide fitting this is the Y fitting
one they do a wife it in a standard option you've got to think about it rationally and logically if
you haven't got wide feet and you're buying a wife fitting shoe something's not quite right
all of the shoes that we've got here quite a modern sort of fastening system none of them
are laces they don't Boas or a type of boa thing what are the benefits of having that over laces
I mean oh you can undo these in a race situation pretty quickly which is nice not quite like that
but there are lots of people riding laced shoes I think the lace actually is a bit of a fashionista
thing I mean I there is a you do it does allow a nice spread of pressure of the top of the foot
however it lacks any on the bike adjustment I guess is the biggest problem with it I have
paralyzer shoes I do wear them occasionally but I wouldn't write wear for a long ride the borough
closure that came about I don't know 15 years ago is generally the most widespread though the white
most widespread clothes that you see in kind of mid high-end shoes city has its own proprietary
system which is fiddly ER but you know there isn't really any difference in terms of stability the
new Boers that you're getting on on both of these about this Shimano and this like odd
are 2-way quick release and allow you to adjust them on the fly which is a really great feature
it allows decent spread of pressure over top of your foot and they're quick and easy to use and
quick and easy to get off so I don't really have a preference I think the velcro closure can put
pressure points on top of the foot particularly if the rise over tightening the closure system but
for the most part the BOA seems to be the most stable the most secure the most adjustable one
particularly on the fly so but you know at the same time if you've got stable feet I can't see
a huge issue with with lace-ups once again all of the students that have carbon soles because
they're fairly high-end shoes is that something you recommend yeah I don't even sell shoes that
don't have carbon soles the reason for it is it's to a certain degree it's the stiffness
but furthermore a plastic sole shoe has to be comparatively a lot thicker in order to get any
form of stiffness now what that means is there's as you pass through the top of the stroke it has
the same impact as lengthening cracking it in it impinges the hips so the benefit of a carbon
fiber sole is that it's comparative thinner and it aids you get to the top of the stroke furthermore
does have we're a lot more stiffness and it doesn't fatigue in the same rate a plastics
old shoe or tend to get soft really quite quickly so and thus the amount of support that it provides
diminishes over time carbon soul goes on forever Commons and non fatigue material I think the
other thing What's Wrong subjects of souls is to understand the the cleat location on shoes
varies from brand to brand so there are certain brands Italian brands out there that have a much
more forward cleat location that I have a bit of a disliking for on the grounds that they is quite
strong correlation between a 14 or a location hand foot problems knee pain saddle issues so
we find ourselves taking the cleat further and further back but that's just one consideration
and again whether it's right or wrong for you really depends on your arch length for example
so when we're talking arch length we're talking about the distance from the calcaneus which will
heel bone to the first metatarsal or longitudinal arch a rider with a longer longitudinal arch
potentially won't be so heavily influenced by a clear locations too far forward and so that's the
material of the sole what about the uppers what about litter shoes and the difference between
material and this leather something you micro something yeah I mean I wouldn't go as far as
to say there's a best I mean quite a lot of manufacturers these days are using a PU or a
micro fiber such a synthetic material and this is this is a kangaroo height shoe but they did also
common a synthetic through their custom program something worth considering about these you can't
get custom ones but you know I would go as far so there's a there was a better or worse I am NOT a
fan of knitted and woven fabrics on the grounds that they tend to be quite soft so this they don't
really offer huge amount of support suppose the foot and then when that's compounded by the fact
that the the brands that use these uppers tend to be narrower fitting that then usually have people
with two sizes too large so actually you end up with this composition of a shoe that is too big
too narrow and then it's got an unstable upper and then all hell breaks loose you know people have
you know instability in their feet which results in all sorts of pain I'm not saying don't buy
shoes with woven or knitted uppers I just don't think it's a particularly stable material to be
making cycling shoes out of so if you have to choose top five shoe brands that people
want to be looking at everybody know that watches these videos knows that I have a big like liking
for Lake on the grounds that they offer several different fits their only make shoes soma City
City only makes Footwear Shimano make really great shoes I quite like Giro's as well III was done to
stop Giro but they stopped making the models that I wanted to be stopping in here so I'm just not
gonna bother because then I don't believe in the upper materials that they started using that's for
what's v I mean there are other brands like DMT then I make bad shoes and it's probably important
to talk about specialized I'm starting to come up against a problem with specialized shoes and
I think the the reason for it is that they have it's the only non neutral shoe on the market and
this is something that nobody tells you and when they do tell you they make it sound like it's a
good thing the specialized shoe is the only show on the market that has immediately posted forth a
virus built into the shoe so in English the front of the shoe is cantered like this okay so the
medial or the first map that the ball of your foot is angled like so this is built on the assumption
that all human beings have a full foot virus this is so you get quite technical but a four
foot progress is a skeleton Lee fixed elevation of the first ropes the first client bones and
what it leads to is usually excessive pronation so as you drive as you apply pressure to the foot the
it leads to excessive pronation of the foot there is a problem with this fullfil virus is extremely
rare most people possess what's called a for purpose for for super Narcis which is a soft
tissue elevation which can be manipulated and what this leads to is with the fork virus posting it
can often lead to foot issues we've we've also found it potentially need to knee pain as well
now I'm not going to say that especially shoes cause knee pain because they don't but I don't
like the fact that it's a non-neutral system I would prefer to build that support into the chute
but some people it absolutely categorically works but I'm starting to find for you know quite a lot
of people that it's it's not what they want and I found this literally bought from from comparative
testing you take someone out some specialized shoe put them into a neutral shoe beer a lake a hero or
city and they automatically prefer furthermore if someone has a neutral shoe and we add a fourth or
varus posting I can think of two scenarios in the last two years where this is I've gotten
this to work almost everybody doesn't like it in their feet in their shoes they they don't like in
their shoes because they feel as though it's just it's putting excessive pressure to the foot that
is that is my one concern and specialist - oh that cleat location is fantastic the up is really good
it's you know it's a nice it's a great shoe I mean I find myself when riders don't want to buy new
shoes then I find myself neutralizing it a lot of the time so I put a virus four foot wedge in
in a in a valgus plane and that neutralizes the front of the shoe but it doesn't always work I
think I would rather leave leave correcting the feet or optimizing the feet to your bike fitter
rather than a shoe manufacturer so there you go another episode about for Tuesday's if you have
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