Shoe Fit

[greycoral]

For a pair of road shoes, how much room should you have at the toes? I just ordered a pair of size 40 (what I usually wear), and they are a little bit bigger than my older shoes. I have a little more than a thumbs width between my toe and the end of the shoe. I worry that if I go a size down, my toes will be crunched.

How much room do you like to have?

[Biciclista]

For a pair of road shoes, how much room should you have at the toes? I just ordered a pair of size 40 (what I usually wear), and they are a little bit bigger than my older shoes. I have a little more than a thumbs width between my toe and the end of the shoe. I worry that if I go a size down, my toes will be crunched.

How much room do you like to have?

you don't want crunched toes and you do want room for warmer socks, so I think you've got the right size. FYI, a lot of roadbikers wear MTB shoes because the soles on road bike shoes tend to be bad to walk on.

[greycoral]

Yeah, I've got kind of a wider toe box, I had tried on a pair of Sidi 39's, and my toes were practically crossing themselves they were so scrunched up. The Sidi 40 was a tighter fit (while comfortable) than the Louis Garneau shoes I just got, but I didn't even think about thicker socks. I tried them on with a thin pair. They fit well everywhere else, no slipping in the heels, etc. Guess I just have more room to wiggle my toes!

[malkin]

I just got Sidi megas which I had never tried, because I imagined they would be big enough for my feet to take oars and row, but Brewer ordered them for me anyway because the price was right...and...they're perfect!

My thought on fit is that some part of the foot needs to be snug but not tight. I don't want my foot to bump and slide especially not toes bonking the end of the box or rubbing the "ceiling."

I like it best if my heel is stable, but given the choice, I'd rather put up with space around my scrawny heels than too tight around my FlintstoneFoot instep and toes.

None of the geneologists has turned anything up yet, but I wonder about hobbitses in the family tree.

[Biciclista]

I like it best if my heel is stable, but given the choice, I'd rather put up with space around my scrawny heels than too tight around my FlintstoneFoot instep and toes.

None of the geneologists has turned anything up yet, but I wonder about hobbitses in the family tree.

what's a flintstone foot instep?

[malkin]

You know, like Fred Flinstone's...wide.

[malkin]

Yabba-dabba-doo!

[VeloVT]

Mine are very snug, but I prefer them that way. My feet are not cramped, but I do not have room to fully and freely wiggle all of my toes. They fit sort of like ballet slippers. I have ridden up to 85 miles without trouble (for the past two years I've been wanting to do a century but it hasn't happened yet -- next summer hopefully).

[malkin]

Like ballet slippers...That's a whole nother ball o fun, isn't it?

If you rode 85, you can ride a century!

[uforgot]

Tight like ballet slippers! No kidding. Anyone ever wear points? Tight AND you have to get up and down on your toes. Many many years of this and my toes are really ugly. It was expected that eventually you would need less and less lambswool. I still have my last pair 30+ years later.

[HillSlugger]

Like ballet slippers

Is that like "tight like climbing shoes"? The most aggressive rock climbers wear their shoes so tight (can't have any slipping of foot in shoe) that the first thing they do at the end of a climb is pull off their shoes. Been there, done that, got the broken toe nails to prove it.

[VeloVT]

Tight like ballet slippers! No kidding. Anyone ever wear points? Tight AND you have to get up and down on your toes. Many many years of this and my toes are really ugly. It was expected that eventually you would need less and less lambswool. I still have my last pair 30+ years later.

I took ballet for 12 years when I was a kid and did go en pointe. I liked the gel toepads better than foam, lambswool, etc. I had crazy strong feet, I used to have to special order my pointe shoes with built up shanks because otherwise I'd break them in one class.

I often wish I had kept it up. You can't really go back, not to ballet anyway, after years of not doing it. My body just won't do certain things anymore.