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My feet are off the scale wide and I find my current road shoes (Shimano R087 wide fit) get too tight after around 2 hours riding. Any recommendations for massively wide road shoes for those with Hobbit feet. Budget around £200.
Thanks in advance
Have you tried the Sidi Mega range? They are wider than spesh or Shimano shoes I’ve tried. Might be worth a look?
I'll check them out the reviews seem to be pretty good.
What about Bont? They're designed to mold to the foot and I'm sure I read that they work for people wide of foot.
Bont have loads of room if you can get on with the boat shape carbon sole
Try gaerne, they do a wide fit and are very good shoes, may have to go to one of the German retailers for the wide fit
As previously mentioned by Wookster the Sidi's with their Mega fit are the ones to get. They cost a bit so look out for sales etc.
Shimano wide fit don't even fit me so you hopefully should be fine with the Sidi's.
Bont. Amazingly wide. They look weird and are crazy stuff but are mouldable multiple times and once moulded are like the world's stiffest slippers - super comfy yet rigid
Bont for the polysyndactyl. I have the opposite problem and struggle to find shoes narrow enough!
Lake do a wide fitting in most of their shoes, but their crap importer doesn't realise it. They are substantially wider than Sidi Mega.
Diadora.
Bont all day long. Wide Lake are not actually that wide, plus they lack a good heel fit.
Standard Lake (CX161) were the widest I had tried out of Specialized, Giro and Louis Garneau, but I never tried Bont.
The advantage of Lake over Bont is that I could experiment relatively cheaply, found the CX161s for £50 on Merlin. Can probably find the wide fit for £95 by the looks of it. Personally wouldn't be spending £200 until I KNEW it was the right fit.
One of the staff in Evans mentioned that for road riding you could sometimes try a size up, especially for longer distances, as the benefits of a tight, close fit were less important, so long as your foot is not actually rattling about in the shoe! Heel lift for instance shouldn't really be an issue as you're not applying the same leverage across the sole as you would when you are walking. Anyway I tried a size up and haven't looked back, certainly resolved a lot of the foot pain I was getting previously...
Lake wide fit are great and the leather is supple so some extra flexibility.
Sidi.megas are not that wide and the plastic material does not stretch.
Go to a shop that have a Lake measuring tool.
+1 13thfloormonk.
I'm normally a 8.5 - 9 in shoe size, but have started buying euro 44 (9.5) in road shoes and it's sorted out the issue I had with foot pain and discomfort.
The problem I have is the shoes are comfortable to start with but my feet get a burning sensation after a couple of hours getting increasingly painful as time goes on. Before I spend any cash i'm trying to stretch my Shimano shoes and may have to try a dose of MTFU and see if that improves anything
The shoes I'm using now are a size bigger than my normal shoe size so I might try going up another size to see if that helps
Going up too much in size is a bad idea as the shoe gets longer as well as wider so if your heel is in the right place the wide part of the shoe will be in front of the wide part of your foot so the effective width may actually get smaller.
Get measured at a decent bike shop. And/or get a cleat fitting (20 quid) by someone who knows what they are doing.
Lake are wide to start with and then they do extra wide too.
Thanks to all
Off to do some more research