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When my Dominators wear out I'm very tempted to try the Giro Republic LX touring shoes for the same purpose, mainly for the reflectiveness and the replaceable walking bits - but have no idea on fit yet
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I thought about those too.
Was actually led there by Rapha.
Thought process went: Nice Sidi's are expensive and I could afford Rapha shoes... oh yeah, Rapha do shoes... made by Giro apparently, let's look at Giro.
But I've heard from too many that they're a bit narrower, and I use custom footbeds in my Sidis and have space for those.
I'm basically just going to wait another month or two and then in a fit of desperation throw a pair of Drakos on my credit card.
Velocio
TBH, it's not like I do either.
But I want a single pair of shoes for long-distance road cycling, for London fixed cycling, for commuting all year round, to be able to walk into shops and restaurants without falling over on highly polished wooden or tiled floors, to have enough grip to safely ascend/descend the three flights of marbled stairs in the office.
It's a whole mixed bag of cycling and then walking on polished floors wipes out the idea of road shoes.
I use the same pedals (Time ATAC) on all of my bikes, from the fixed to the tourer to the road. So this is one pair of shoes for all bikes, all forms of cycling... except, as it turns out, mountain biking which I barely do a day or two of each year (when on holiday).
Sidi remains the best fit, and they last fairly well... except older Dragon uppers really didn't last all year round and took too much of a beating in winter (I seldom wear shoe covers) and Dominator soles are too soft and wear too quickly for the hard surface walking that is part of the commute.
If the Dragon uppers can now survive a winter and still look almost newish, are easy to clean when they're covered in sticky grit from commuting in the rain... then I'm tempted to try them out again. The Lorica uppers were the only thing that sucked about those.