by John | Jun 30, 2021 | Instructor Tips and Tricks
When a student asks what they should purchase for Indoor Cycling Shoes, what do you recommend? Do you have a place to send them? Does your club sell Indoor Cycling Shoes?
If you're only using them for Indoor Cycling classes, then a shoe with a recessed SPD cleat is the best choice. Often refered to as Mountain Bike shoes, you'll find they are easy to walk on and won't scratch the floor. Every pedal you will find and a studio these days will have a SPD on one side.
Here are links to a number of suggestions at Amazon.com which has as good a pricing as anyone and you can't beat Amazon's easy return policies.
Indoor Cycling Shoes for Women
Indoor Cycling Shoes for Men
I ride a lot outdoors and prefer a conventional “Cycling Shoe” that has an exposed cleat – I have used Look cleats on all of my road bikes. My feet are very wide and flat. After suffering with ill fitting shoes in a “regular” width for years, I finally broke down and purchased a pair of Sidi Mega Road Cycling Shoes
. Yes I know they are expensive. I've had mine for at least ten years and other than looking a bit faded, they are as comfy as ever.
I should add that I wear my Sidi's with Superfeet supportive insoles that prevent my feet from rolling inward, which takes a lot of stress off my knees.
This post has more suggestions and recommendations for the best indoor cycling shoes for wide feet.
Originally posted 2010-06-19 09:51:02.
by John | Apr 4, 2021 | Product Reviews
As near as I can tell, I've been wearing the same pair of Sidi cycling shoes (basic black & boring) for the past 10 years. I'm not complaining, they have held up well despite all my inside and outside training. It's just that yesterday in Amy's class a friend of ours (yes – after all these years at the same club most of the class are friends) was up front with his pretty white shoes. “I should have a pair of those cool shoes” I thought. Then I switched to my justifying the expense mode, “if I had some pretty white shoes (or maybe silver) my class would be able to more easily see and follow my feet… So the shoes wouldn't be for me, I would be buying them for my students. That's it exactly!
Then I switch to my practical mode; the last pair lasted 10 years and cost about $150.00. So they cost about $1.00 a month – that's nothing.
Of course I would want to take advantage of my ICI/PRO member discount at Pearl iZumi 🙂
What do you think of these?
I actually got an email this morning from a member stating the money he saved equated to his ICI/PRO membership being essentially free 🙂
Originally posted 2011-04-17 14:48:35.
by John | Apr 24, 2017 | Engage Your Students
Shoes Big Foot would love for Christmas
A member at our club asked me this morning asked me for a recommendation on a last minute Christmas present for her husband. She wanted to buy him some Indoor Cycling shoes, who she described as having “very wide feet”.
I know all about the challenges of finding comfortable shoes (of any type) that fit my very wide and flat feet 🙁 My kids have forever kidded me about how my two smallest toes don't lay flat – the Podiatrist called them Hammer Toes for the way they fold back like the hammer on a gun. I'm convinced that I wasn't born with them. They got that way after being stuffed into narrow shoes for decades.
I've owned a bunch of shoes over the years, but none have been as comfortable as my old pair of Sidi Mega Road Cycling Shoes
. Mega = mega wide and they saved cycling for me when they first came out. My pair has to be at least 10 year's old and I must have replaced the Look cleats on the bottom a dozen or more times.
But road bike shoes with flat bottoms and exposed cleats are far from optimal for indoor use. Her husband didn't ride outdoors, so what she was really looking for was a wide shoe with a recessed SPD cleat. My only suggestion to her was for the Sidi Dominator MTB Shoe
which is their mountain bike shoe in a Mega width version.
Beyond that, I'm not aware of a wide shoe I could recommend to her. I spent some time searching online and wasn't able to find anything. There are lots of results for wide indoor cycling shoes, but everyone ended up being medium width.
Do you know of anything?
Originally posted 2012-12-22 13:56:22.
