PICTURES BY ROB
The cycling shoe is a many-headed beast. For every person who swears that the perfect shoe is a carbon-soled, neonhued disco-slipper, there are others who look baffled at the very thought of cycling-specific shoes, and point at their tatty-looking Vans.
And then there are those of us in the middle. Those who appreciate that cycling needs a decent pair of dedicated footwear, but who are still those who don’t need to advertise the extreme speed their frantically rotating pins are capable of by bolting some neon yellow numbers onto them. Those who might (gasp!) actually get off and push once in a while. Those who might, complete with bike kit, saunter to the pub for a post-ride pick-me-up, rather than stripping off for a hot lemon massage and a glass of horse liniment, or whatever those ultrafit cross-country types get up to. We wouldn’t know, sadly.