Which winter shoes / boots are people using?

dammit, i could be interested

they look overkill for the u.k.
been using shimano mw-80's with no problems including belo zero 4hr mtb rides where water vapour freezes in your beard.
i bought a size up thinking 2 pairs of socks would be the way to go but they were too warm so now have my 'normal' size and just use a merino sock with them.

we are fixie bedwetters and will usually take anything a step too far

these would not just be for commuting but for falling off bikes on frozen mud during the winter

That freezing water vapour thing is mad, especially when there's no ice on the ground. I've had frozen brake cable outers, frozen eyebrows, and a frozen exoskeleton on my gloves.

Still only used regular Sidis with a wool sock and neoprene overshoes though :p

Well at RRP there is £50 in it between the Shimano and the Lake's.

I think I'll go for overkill on this one, purely because I've never thought to myself (apart from using road shoes in the summer) "golly my feet are too hot", however I have been made extremely miserable by cold wet feet.

I had had high hopes that not having smoked for a year my circulation would magically improve and I'd no longer suffer from corpse foot, but sadly that seems not to have happened.

they look overkill for the u.k.

The UK can still get cold enough in winter to make life miserable for those with poor circulation.

Plenty of people have said that heated gloves are overkill too, but i personally couldn't have got through last winters riding without mine.
As usual, it's dependant on the individual.

As usual, it's dependant on the individual.

And where you ride. Last winter, though it was cold and snowy, riding about in the forests and trees wasn't too bad at all. However, up on the bare hills and down on the coast (New Year's Day South Costs sticks in the mind in particular) was an entirely different matter.

I ride with these

Got krnky straps and bmx flats on my winter commuter.

And where you ride. Last winter, though it was cold and snowy, riding about in the forests and trees wasn't too bad at all. However, up on the bare hills and down on the coast (New Year's Day South Costs sticks in the mind in particular) was an entirely different matter.

My point was that it's not as simple as just where you ride or in what country...different people feel cold more/less due to poor/good circulation.

If my feet and hands are agony at minus 5 then it makes no difference if i'm standing in the UK or the Antarctic. :]

Understood - all I meant is that a given temp in sheltered stillish air is a very different thing to getting a blast of windchill for a sustained period, even if the air temp is the same. So what works for 1/2 a day's woody MTBing might freeze your fingers off in 1/2 an hour on a windy road ride.

Cycling - it's rough out there.

The UK can still get cold enough in winter to make life miserable for those with poor circulation.

Plenty of people have said that heated gloves are overkill too, but i personally couldn't have got through last winters riding without mine.
As usual, it's dependant on the individual.

i love it when it's cold and dry/hard ground. the trails are fast and empty cos people stay indoors.
i find sock guy wooly booly merino socks do the job as even if they get a bit wet they stay warm.

i can't ride if me knees get cold though, have to use doubled up 3/4's with leg warmers under baggys. if they get cold they seize up and are cold to the touch for hours afterward even after a hot bath. as you say everyone is different.

I started using some windproof tights with leg warmers underneath last winter, but i found that the pressure they put on my dodgy kneecaps was worse than the cold. :[
I ended up ditching the windproofs.
I think it was the lack of stretch in them compared to regular lycra.

The longer I live here the more clothes I wear. I'm getting soft.

Scott, I've seen some double layer knee warmers. No windbreaker material just double thickness superroubaix or whatever that stuff is called.

I used 3/4's with leg warmers underneath last year and it was ok...it's my hands and feet where i feel cold in a painful way, my legs don't normally suffer too bad.
I have a feeling I'm gonna be too busy to even ride a bike for the next few months though.

I know the feeling.

Wait, substitute lazy for busy, then I know the feeling.

I haven't ridden further than 5 miles since the D.D :[

I used 3/4's with leg warmers underneath last year and it was ok...it's my hands and feet where i feel cold in a painful way, my legs don't normally suffer too bad.
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Ah but you need to lag the pipes between the boiler and the radiator.

The longer I live here the more clothes I wear. I'm getting soft.

How long you been here, hippy? Six year or so for us and I'm finding the same thing.

You're getting slower so not producing as much heat.

2 pairs of super thin merino socks from a Marks+ Spencer outlet store and Sidis with neoprene overshoes got me through last winter's riding. Got some Prendas oversocks now to add another thin layer between shoe and overshoe.

I've just ordered some of these waterproof tights:
http://www.endura.co.uk/Product.aspx?dept_id=133&prod_id=241

Which I'll stretch over the ankle of these:

I would normaly have gone for bibs but I think I'll get more use out of the tights.

this

regular Sidis with a wool sock and neoprene overshoes

and this

i can't ride if me knees get cold though, have to use doubled up 3/4's with leg warmers under baggys. if they get cold they seize up and are cold to the touch for hours afterward even after a hot bath. as you say everyone is different.

I clearly have delicate ankles

All the overshoes that fit over my shoes leave a big gap at my ankle, so water just flows down and in. Have tried gore and endura covers but both failed miserably

try castelli or assos - race overshoes rather than cummuter ones.

and anyway, how are these ^^^ gonna stop water running down your legs in to your shoes?

most of the water that hits your feet is coming off the wheels anyway, so for anything under 30 minutes it's avoiding the cold wind that's most important

^I bodged a fix to the gap problem with some cannibalised neoprene ankle supports from a pound shop. There were all sorts of calve/knee/arm versions you could probabaly adapt into sort of gaiters.