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Diadora and Northwave currently have some really cool lime green bike shoes. The women's cycling shoes are mostly white or black. No fair!!
Lisa
Bacchetta Ti Aero
ICE B1
Bacchetta Cafe Mountain Bent
Would it not be cool if team estrogen could get custom colored women's cycling shoes? Hey Sue!!!
Lisa
Bacchetta Ti Aero
ICE B1
Bacchetta Cafe Mountain Bent
But you got to admit, off the bike, we have better shoes.![]()
'02 Eddy Merckx Fuga, Selle An Atomica
'85 Eddy Merckx Professional, Selle An Atomica
'10 Soma Double Cross DC, Selle An Atomica
Slacker on wheels.
According to my LBS, manufacturers think women won't pay for higher end, cool looking cycling shoes.
My DH is the Imelda of men's shoes. He buys very cool looking ones that always get noticed.
Jolt, have you ever seen Nayot brand shoes? They are super expensive, but occasionally you can find them on sale at STP or other places. They are designed by an Israeli woman who was a doctor and couldn't find stylish, comfortable shoes. She's become rich making shoes.
2015 Trek Silque SSL
Specialized Oura
2011 Guru Praemio
Specialized Oura
2017 Specialized Ariel Sport
And some seem to think that if you're a girl, you must like pink. No offence to PinkBike, but I really really don't like pink.![]()
Beth
- Gray 2010 carbon WSD road bike, Rivet Independence saddle
- Red hardtail 26" aluminum mountain bike, Bontrager Evoke WSD saddle
- Royal blue 2018 aluminum gravel bike, Rivet Pearl saddle
Gone but not forgotten:
- Silver 2003 aluminum road bike
- Two awesome worn out Juliana saddles
I'd be happy if I could fit into women's shoes. I wouldn't care if they only came in barf pink.Well, maybe I would...
Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
Shoe brands that I find comfortable when I look for work-appropriate heels: Clarks (as Ny-biker mentioned), Geox, and Pikolinos. I check every season to see if they have something I like, which is generally not the case ... I am picky.
Crankin: would that be Naot?
Clarks ... well looky there, EE width women's shoes (in black and blue only), and they have a store not too far from me.
I hate to even get my hopes up. Shoe shopping has always been an exercise in frustration for me.
Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
Oops, yes. I would compare them with Clarks, but a bit more stylish. I am lucky that there is a very expensive shoe store in my town that has a "discount" room upstairs. Since all of their shoes are brands like Naot and Clarks, I often have success finding things there; plus, I wear a size 5.5 in dress shoes and they actually have lots of shoes in my size. Europeans have smaller feet than Americans, I guess, so the small sizes often end up in the discount room.
2015 Trek Silque SSL
Specialized Oura
2011 Guru Praemio
Specialized Oura
2017 Specialized Ariel Sport
- Gray 2010 carbon WSD road bike, Rivet Independence saddle
- Red hardtail 26" aluminum mountain bike, Bontrager Evoke WSD saddle
- Royal blue 2018 aluminum gravel bike, Rivet Pearl saddle
Gone but not forgotten:
- Silver 2003 aluminum road bike
- Two awesome worn out Juliana saddles
I hear you on the shoes. I don't wear what other people call dress shoes. I gave up on that A LONG time ago. However.. bike shoes? What am I going to do when my red SIDI's wear out? They've never come up with anything as good (colorwise) since. I can still remember when one of the TE gals bought the LAST pair of red ones near my size. . . then after that it took months of hunting I found a little LBS selling them in Colorado because they had accidentally ordered too many of the red ones... So I was able to buy a pair.
Bike shoe makers, wake up. Look at what we are wearing, and the color of our bikes. Do you really think we just want black or white shoes????
I like Bikes - Mimi
Watercolor Blog
Davidson Custom Bike - Cavaletta
Dahon 2009 Sport - Luna
Old Raleigh Mixte - Mitzi
+1. Most of my work shoes are Clarks.
And I only WISH I could buy womens' bike shoes instead of having to buy mens. (There are no womens bike shoes available in an 11-12 - or a 45. I am an 11 in street shoes but for cycling/running I do like to size up.) I guess I am "lucky" then since apparently I have a palette of colors available to me in overly wide ill fitting shoes.![]()
Sarah
When it's easy, ride hard; when it's hard, ride easy.
2011 Volagi Liscio
2010 Pegoretti Love #3 "Manovelo"
2011 Mercian Vincitore Special
2003 Eddy Merckx Team SC - stolen
2001 Colnago Ovalmaster Stars and Stripes