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I cycle with these pedals and a pair of xero sandals. The soles are hard rubber and completely flat, also very floppy. The size of the pedals makes this combination work great. I wouldn't use a squishy sneaker, but i reckon you really don't need something with a stiff carbon sole on these pedals at all. I think using shoes that don't raise the heel, helps as well.
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xero sandals
Interesting.
Agree you don't need stiff soles but what I find a bit unpleasant is when you can feel the rear edge of the pedal clearly through the sole.
For me, the Innov-8s worked ok once I put Specialized (blue) insoles in them. That made them stiff enough. With the stock insoles I could feel the pedal too much.
frank9755
It works for me.
Read James Wilson's site, the guy who designed the big pedals. He runs through loads of questions people have and the answers. Stiff shoes is one. He reckons that you don't need them if you have a big pedal. I partly agree with that but would ideally like something stiffer. I want to try some sod shoes with no cleats but didn't find comfortable ones in time for TCR.
I've got a list of the shoes I tried, will paste.
Here's list. I bought a couple more after but it didn't change the general picture. I won't need any new trainers for a year or ten.
I got:
sports direct trail running shoes. These are really comfortable but they have chunky heels so not right for cycling. Just got them as experiment and they were cheap - got me into the idea of trail runners.
Salamon Acro - kept these and use them for messing around in. They are comfortable. Actually wearing them now, but used them for a turbo session and I thought the soles were a bit thin.
Inov8 Terraultra 260 Trail Running Shoes - These are what I think I'll use for TCR, but not done a long ride or a hard session in them yet. I got some that had zero heel drop. They are really comfortable and can't feel the pedal.
Shimano touring SPD shoes, but to use without cleats. These were crap as I could feel the SPD attachment plate - returned
Mavic SPD shoes. Similar - returned
Giro Chamber shoes. SPD. These could ahve been good but they already had the cleat hole formed, and it was massive - no plate to go over it. - returned
Specialiazed 2FO - their version of 5-10s. These had softer soles than the 5-10s - returned.
Northwave version of five tens, was going to use them but decided not at the last minute, can't remember why.