They are _so_ worth it. I would recommend them to BF, who is always in bike shoe agony, but if he can't figure out that when they say you need "stiff" shoes, it means the soles, not the uppers (hence his disdain for the Sidi Genius I bought him, and returned!!) then he for sure isn't going to go for sandals...

Relatively speaking, anyway, the sandals are cheap, too!!

Nanci