Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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...leaders jersey colour and all that, but, but, but.... yellow shoes ?
Yellow. Shoes.'
No. Not yellow shoes, or even Yellow. Shoes.
Yellow. Sidis.
Let the true hideousness of that sink in. It's the sort of stunt you'd expect from Specialized or any number of other 'sports' footwear companies. Not Sidi.
eew.
What dope would wear these?
Can't afford them until I get paid next TUE...
Is there a bit on the heel to stash your "therapeutic" inhaler?
Or you can wait for Contador to win it this year and then get yellow Specialized shoes
Finally, a reason to support Bertie! Spesh the company is often dubious, but their damn body geometry shoes fit me too well.
Actually, I am in the market for new shoes, but I certainly won't be paying this kind of money for them...
Or Team Sky's new racing shoes from Rapha to be released in time for TDF.
Well whatever I buy, they aren't likely to cost more than £150. Perhaps I should amputate one leg (got a knee injury anyway, so I can kill 2 birds with 1 stone!) then I'll be able to afford the Rapha?!
...leaders jersey colour and all that, but, but, but.... yellow shoes ?
Yellow. Shoes.
Wide-footed. It's wide-footed!
Besides, you need a such a curve on the toes as to have a pea-sized little toe, or they pinch at the outside. What kind of weirdo is born with aero-shaped toes?!
Tour winners!
They look cool, but every time I see someone wearing Sidi's, I know I'm looking at someone with slightly weird-shaped feet.
You're just jelly coz you're too fat-footed to wear such awesome shoes.