Winter road Shoes

codie

Can anyone recommend a good pair of winter road shoes.A pair that will keep you warm and dry.I have been looking at the Northwave xtreme for a while now and thought I will hold out for a sale as the price of them is grazy.The reviews vary and after reading them I have changed my mind.So if anybody can recommend a pair of good solid winter shoes and advise how the sizing works out etc....compared to your other cycling shoes.

crosstownk

Just use overshoes. A cheaper and more versatile option.

rollingscone

Just saw today Thinkbike in Rathmines have an unusual but deadly looking pair of rigid foam type over boots.

They looked savage for deep winter spins and funnily enough I thought to myself they're probably the next best thing to winter boots

Domane

I always thought overshoes were a bit "effeminate" looking (think pixie boots) but the agony of cold toes can ruin a ride altogether. I was out last Wednesday for a 50km spin and suffered the tortures of the damned through freezing toes. Despite being well wrapped up (craft long sleeved thermal compression top, sportful roubaix tights, endura gillet, Galbrier Mistral jacket and Altura fleeced lined gloves), I just couldn't get the heat from my warm body to circulate down to my toes. Pushing hard to get my circulation going didn't help either. When I finally got home, from the ankles up, I was nice and toasty but my feet were like blocks of ice. When the blood finally started recirculating through my toes, it hurt a lot!

Moral of the story, keep your feet warm using thermal socks/merino wool socks and overshoes. I read later that the cleats on cycling shoes act like heat sinks and draw the heat from your feet. Not sure how true that it seeing as cleats are plastic but I won't be taking anymore chances of frost bitten toes.

rollingscone

Domane wrote: »

I always thought overshoes were a bit "effeminate" looking (think pixie boots) but the agony of cold toes can ruin a ride altogether. I was out last Wednesday for a 50km spin and suffered the tortures of the damned through freezing toes. Despite being well wrapped up (craft long sleeved thermal compression top, sportful roubaix tights, endura gillet, Galbrier Mistral jacket and Altura fleeced lined gloves), I just couldn't get the heat from my warm body to circulate down to my toes. Pushing hard to get my circulation going didn't help either. When I finally got home, from the ankles up, I was nice and toasty but my feet were like blocks of ice. When the blood finally started recirculating through my toes, it hurt a lot!

Moral of the story, keep your feet warm using thermal socks/merino wool socks and overshoes. I read later that the cleats on cycling shoes act like heat sinks and draw the heat from your feet. Not sure how true that it seeing as cleats are plastic but I won't be taking anymore chances of frost bitten toes.

I'll just save Gadetra the trouble...

Domane

I asked for that:D