Lace va Boa Road Bike Shoes

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Hi All,

Looking into buying some new road cycling shoes and am contemplating going with a lace up shoe. I’ve had some trouble with pain on the top of my foot from boa dials and have read the laces could potentially help with that. I currently use the S Works Torch 3.0. Has anyone made the switch to or from lace up cycling shoes and can provide any insights, pros/cons? Also would love to know what you’re currently wearing to ride as I’m in the beginning stage of research.

Thanks!

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The Lake CX20R lace ups are my current shoes and I love them. They are wide enough in the toe, but still have a tight fit in the heel, and are just a comfortable shoe overall. Definitely a summer shoe, but if you tape off the vents on the sole, they do fine in cooler temps too.

Prior to these, I was using Boa shoes and I was constantly adjusting pressure during rides, but not so with laces. As you mentioned, they also cause pressure points for some people, and I would add that eventually, they will break (at the most inconvenient time possible)

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I wear Lake 238 shoes. They have two Boa dials. I wouldn’t be able to ride with laces since I sometimes change the tension in the Boas during a ride.

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I have had several pairs of lace up shoes. They’re comfortable and I prefer the aesthetic. But most most recent pairs are boa and I don’t think I’ll ever go back to laces.

1 - I do a lot of early morning rides and the faff of doing up laces every morning eventually became annoying. It’s hard enough to get out the door as it is.

2 - White laces turn grey and never turn back again. Washing them is a pain.

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I went laces for simplicity after wrecking a ratchet on MTB shoes. I love them and would want them on my future shoes, but they do seem uncommon now. The Giros I wear are too narrow but they’re not that bad and not old enough yet for me to replace them.

I’ve never had a moment during a ride/race when I wished I could tighten my shoes. I tighten my helmet at the end of a race though… I think people do it because they can and it feels appropriate.

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This x1,000,000 or so.