Eurobike2013: Giro Terraduro shoes

Seeing as ‘just riding your bike around’ AKA ‘enduro’ is now a genuine product category according to the bike industry, we trail riders should soon be benefitting from quality gear made for the kind of riding we like to do, rather than having to use either racing-derived apparel, or watered down motocross or BMX gear.

Black or a fire red. The black, women’s version is on the right.

Giro’s Terraduro (and women’s version, the Terradura) is one such example. It’s a trail riding shoe with a medium-sticky Vibram sole and a dual injected shank that allows a good amount of flex to it. There are no flashy race-inspired panels, but instead there’s a lot of reinforcing around scuff areas. The shoe stays on with a pair of Velcro straps and a micro adjust buckle (that will do 2mm adjustment both loosening and tightening). It’ll come in half sizes too and, for a pleasant change, there’s a identically specced women’s version coming out at the same time. We like! No UK price yet, but it’s $180 in the USA.

Perforated on top, but well sealed from below.

The kind of soles we probably all should be riding. Works well off the bike too.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)