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The shoe that bolts you to your bike and dares you to fall over standing still.
means A stiff-soled shoe designed to clip directly onto a bicycle's pedals via a cleat, transferring your leg power to the bike with minimal flex.
from A plain compound of 'cycling' and 'shoe.' 'Cycle' descends from the Greek 'kyklos,' meaning circle or wheel — the same root behind 'cyclone' and 'bicycle' — fittingly named for the rotating wheels. 'Shoe' is solidly Germanic, traceable to Old English 'scoh.' The specialized footwear itself followed the rise of competitive cycling, and the modern clipless version with its cleat-and-pedal lock arrived in the latter part of the 20th century, replacing the older toe-clip-and-strap arrangement.
- cleat clip
- Riders fall while stopped, feet still locked in
- rigid sole
- Stiff carbon transfers power, useless for walking
- penguin walk
- Cleats turn cafe floors into ice rinks
- origin
- Toe clips and straps preceded clipless pedals
- clipless misnomer
- Clipless pedals actually clip you in tighter
shimano sh-m9000 — xtr mountain bike shoe, the industry standard since 2015 for mtb racing
sidi wire 2 carbon — road cycling shoe used by professional peloton teams, weighs 165g per pair
giro empire slx — gravel and adventure shoe with boa dial system, adopted by bikepacking communities