Charliedontsurf, a good article and a subject that has bugged me for years. I’ve made do with the same pair of Specialized BG SPD shoes for commuting, road and MTB duties for years because I had been unable to find anything more comfortable. They are slowly dying a death and will soon need replacing, so the suggestions here are perfectly timed. Luckily I found a pair of road shoes last year that fitted, so only need to get something for normal SPD pedals now.

As for 5:10, fully agree. If you can find a pair that fit well, buy two. They may be for flat pedals, but the extra sole and grip makes the Primeblue pair I have really good for skydiving.

My podiatrist tells me to cut my toenails straight across and not rounded 🙄

Popped to the LBS yesterday as I was fed up with random sizing issues and tried on some RC shoes. I’d temper my enthusiasm for their large sizes as they seemed to come up small for a given size. I went for the Freerider Pros prime blue if anyone’s interested… 😉

UK size 13 here, I’m usually on the hunt for a new pair of MTB shoes every 2 years. The constant frustration of trying to get anything over a size 11! Another issue is that a fair number of MTB-specific shoes are slightly undersized, e.g. if I go for a pair of 5 10’s I need to go up to a 13.5 to get the right fit.

For those with wide feet, and where your toes are largely all in line at the end.  I’ve found the Lake offerings – with their wide last (so a proper wide shoe not just the same small width sole but more baggy fabric bear the end) – have worked well.  Basically they seem to not cut off the little toe side of the shoe off at an angle in the way many others do – so your small toe side is less prone to being crushed than with specialized or Shimano (and Italian shoes which seem to be the WORST).

I’m able to be a size or even 2 sizes smaller with the Lake wide shoes than anything else I had / have (my Shimano winter boots are 2 full sizes longer to get my foot in, using the same socks).

This from the article…

Note: Try not to get too excited by the usual shopping links below, the links generated don’t factor in available shoe sizes (sorry about that, it is annoying yes). But, who knows, you could be lucky. Worth a clicksee…

Etnies go up to size 14 in some of their mtb shoes. I have a pair of Semenuk Pros and my tiny size 11s are true to size (and damn good).

Good to see this article & thanks for the comments, too.

As someone who doesn’t quite fit into a Euro size 50 (I need a 51 wide-fit), & having tried the likes of Lake (even in their longest & widest fit/last) & others in vain, I’ve relied on Sidi Dominators (& more recently Sidi Eagles) in 51 wide fit (wide=’Mega’ fit in Sidi-speak) for the past twenty or so years, where they actually made up to a 52 Mega …

… until a couple of years ago that is, when Sidi stopped making any MTB/CX/gravel shoes in anything bigger than a 50 in the wide fit!

After years of searching, I had thought that that Sidi model in a 51 Mega was literally the only clipless shoe from any manufacturer that fitted me.

So, as I now try to eke a long life out of the couple of pairs of Sidis that I have left, I was recently intrigued to see that Shimano do in fact do the XC3 / XC300 in up to a 52 wide.

The XC3 seems to be the biggest Shimano go in a shoe, & is now, I think, the only off-the-shelf clipless shoe in size 51 or 52 (& in wide fit) from any manufacturer.

If anyone knows of any other wide-fit size 51 clipless shoes then I’m all ears! 😀

Not that I have the cash for it, but there are ‘full-custom’ bespoke-sized shoes out there such as those from Bont, plus some independent shoe builders like Lamson in the US – the shoe is built specifically to your foot measurements … but expect to take out a mortgage to buy a pair! 😞