Elefantino
03-24-2016, 12:42 PM
So my wife had grown out of love with her two pairs of Spesh road shoes and wanted something more comfortable. Something about feet changing with age. (Quote me on that last sentence and I will deny it. :D)
So we tried various brands we had on hand: a couple of Shimanos, a Giro, some Garneaus. All were a big negatory. Good thing we have a liberal return policy.
Now I have been wearing adidas since the mid-2000s; I still have three pairs left of the four I bought, one unopened. I also have a pair of Mavics, built on the same last. So the wife says she wanted to try Mavics because of the mesh toe box. Unfortunately, Mavic's new women's shoes don't have an all-mesh toe; there's a strip of pleather down the middle, as in most shoes. Their older women's top-of-the-lines, the Zxenons (who names these things?) had them, but they've been out of production for a year.
Longer story somewhat less long, I found a pair in her size (42) at a place called Bikewagon for $80 on 70 percent off closeout and bought them for her to try. She loves them. Best shoes ever. So, naturally, I had to get another pair. This took some more doing. A bit of a search found a pair of 42s in a bike shop in Toulouse. As in France. Bought those, and they're on their way.
Are others of you as particular about your shoes that you will go to such Herculean, honey-you-are-the-greatest-ever-and-of-course-you-can-get-that-Super-Record-EPS-group lengths?
So we tried various brands we had on hand: a couple of Shimanos, a Giro, some Garneaus. All were a big negatory. Good thing we have a liberal return policy.
Now I have been wearing adidas since the mid-2000s; I still have three pairs left of the four I bought, one unopened. I also have a pair of Mavics, built on the same last. So the wife says she wanted to try Mavics because of the mesh toe box. Unfortunately, Mavic's new women's shoes don't have an all-mesh toe; there's a strip of pleather down the middle, as in most shoes. Their older women's top-of-the-lines, the Zxenons (who names these things?) had them, but they've been out of production for a year.
Longer story somewhat less long, I found a pair in her size (42) at a place called Bikewagon for $80 on 70 percent off closeout and bought them for her to try. She loves them. Best shoes ever. So, naturally, I had to get another pair. This took some more doing. A bit of a search found a pair of 42s in a bike shop in Toulouse. As in France. Bought those, and they're on their way.
Are others of you as particular about your shoes that you will go to such Herculean, honey-you-are-the-greatest-ever-and-of-course-you-can-get-that-Super-Record-EPS-group lengths?