Cycling shoes for wide feet?

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If you're wide in the heel you might be able to wear the Sidi Mega. My sister wears those.

If you're wide in the forefoot only, I don't think any of the brands you listed will fit. They sure won't fit me ... You might try Specialized if your feet aren't *super* wide; they have a more foot-shaped toe box than most.

I didn't like the pair of Women's Specialized shoes I tried at all...and couldn't wear Sidis. I had 40s...perhaps a 41 would have worked, but I didn't need length. And I found the heels on Sidis to be too wide (the opposite of what I need). I have a very narrow heel and wide foot. LG shoes fit like they were made for me--at least the men's models do. I have the CFS-300, T-Flex 300, and that neoprene Winter boot one (name escapes me).

[OakLeaf]

perhaps a 41 would have worked, but I didn't need length.

[hijack] Sigh.

I have to go one Euro size up in length to get Lems wide enough. The NB running shoes I have in women's 4E have at least a full US size in length greater than I need (and I could still use a few millimeters' width, on those).

It's a perennial problem at shoe stores, where the salespeople will check only the toe space and proclaim that shoes are too big for me, when they're actually way too small. They will actually argue with me about that. Any more, I just pull the insoles out and stand on them so they can see my big toe and my fifth metatarsal head hanging over the sides.

Wishing you luck with yours.....

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[OakLeaf]

Have you ever looked seriously into mens shoes? They do have more styles than they used to. And if you put an insert under the ball of the foot, it makes the heels tighter.

The Lake cycling shoes I wear are men's.

Lems are unisex, basically (some of the colors they label "men's" or "women's," but the shoes are otherwise identical).

The Mizunos I wore out for running and now wear for kicking around are men's 2E (hated running in those shoes, but more because of the stiff sole and the pointy clown toe than anything). Reasonable in forefoot and heel, though as always there's a great deal of empty space in front of the second and third toes.

The Nike Air Pegasus I really want to make work for me, but probably can't, are men's 2E. Those are the only shoes I own that actually don't rub against my toes. The problem is that the ankle opening is way too big, which causes issues with the tendons on both sides of my ankles - the Achilles because my heels tend to move around, and the flexor tendons because the laces are too tight against them (another perennial issue for me that I can solve in most shoes by padding the tongues).

Length-wise, my feet are measured at a women's 8-1/2. The only shoes I can wear that are smaller than women's 11 are the NBs that I wear in 10EEEE. Both my pairs of men's running shoes are 9EE. My cycling shoes are men's 43 Wide which usually converts to a US men's 9-1/2.

I'm just in the process of weaning myself off the metatarsal buttons. They were a very useful tool while I was developing foot strength and flexibility, but at this point, I don't need them, I need to run without them in order to let my feet function fully, and to be able to get my weight fully into my first and fifth met heads ... and they really never affected the fit at all.

Sigh.

ETA - this is my foot on the insole of those NB 10EEEEs (sorry for the huge file, too lazy to edit right now)...

[ny biker]

Nike running shoes are the reason I have this problem. I bought them in wide but they still cramped my left foot to the point where it hurt all the time with any shoes. I will never wear them again.

[OakLeaf]

One thing about Nike, they use several different lasts. Most of them I couldn't even begin to wear. Just kinda the men's Air Peg and old versions of the women's Zoom Triax (unfortunately, not the 15 and I can't find a pair of the new 16s to try on).

[GLC1968]

Oak - my feet are shaped just like yours except they are shorter, making men's shoes an impossibility except in very rare cases.

After my surgery, I can't even wear my old NB minimus shoes that used to work great for running for me because they were tight enough across the arch to keep them from moving around over distance. Now that tightness just hurts like hell. I have no idea what I'm going to do for running (it's part of the reason I haven't really started up again).

[OakLeaf]

If you're still okay running without much of any cushion, try Lems. They go down to size 37, and I know of people who run in them.