Best place to buy MTB shoes.

[sinnett177]

Gents, I'm looking to buy some new SPD shoes but have to admit I'm struggling a bit. I'm after some fairly high end shoes but shops like CRC have only the dregs of sizes and colours, and merlin only have a couple of styles. Does anyone know of a good shop that has plenty of selection and sizes?

Help gratefully received.

 

[Andy B]

I went to my local Spesh dealer, who also stocks Shimano as they were the shoes I was interested in, tried the Shimano, to narrow in the toe box, tried Spesh BG Sport, perfect fit, great shoes, go try them in your local Spesh dealers.

 

[kaiser]

Another for specialized shoes wiggle? or evans? and edinburgh bike co-op has a specialized web shop I think.

 

[logger]

well i have always been a fan of the spec BG shoes, but when i tried a pair on last week ?? they felt to narrow. tried some northwave and they felt slightly wider ?? strange , as they are normaly narrow, i struggle to as i have boats fro feet lol size 12

 

[johnkiteman]

Interesting - having ridden my Lakes into the ground I shopped for months visiting every bike shop I could before I found shoes that felt right. No easy options - depended on what the shops had left in the generally dissapointing stock.

The only shoes that felt right and I ended up buying (at a bargain price) began with an "S", ended with a "d", and had "pecialize" in the middle

 

[Wold Ranger]

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I would only ever ever buy Spesh, so stiff, comfy and indestructable. I have a 15 year old pair of Sports, they're not waterproof, but just so comfy and breathable. I just put a pair of Waterproof Porelle dry sox on in winter, my feet then never get wet or cold either. Spesh are all wider fitting! So unless you have a slim foot, all the conti brands will be too narrow as Conti's have narrower foot than Brits n Yanks (geneological fact we have bigger foot bones-its the Neanderthal in us ) this is why Conti walking boots always blister us too!

 

[sinnett177]

Some top advise here, thank you very much. I've managed to find some SIDI bulllet II's from an italian shop. I'll give them a try, they say I can return them no problem should they not fit right, so nothing to lose by trying them. Thanks again.