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I've researched alternative SPD shoes, found good to great ones, yet had to bring all sizes to cm because of the wild size tables. Otherwise I could have ordered shoes which are too small. One of the good other brands has a very sturdy & nice looking shoe, but they don't go larger than 11 and 1/2, which according to their custom sizing table, is a number of centimeters smaller than what I need. There are other fantastic SPD waterproof boots, which also have that annoying sizing difference between Shimano and theirs. These cost a whopping USD 350, 3x more than a complex effect for my audio effects rack. They are made of genuine leather though. Of the last sets of Shimano SPD shoes that I bought, one got ripped open at the big toe, after a run of the mill 0 km an hour stationary fall, which I broke perfectly, with the compliments of my Judo experience. That has been the breaking point for me forcing to ditch Shimano SPD shoes also. Shimano budget SPD shoes are a liability now. I do not want know what may have happened to my feet, if it was a 30 km an hour fall. I have a reserve pair of those shoes which I have to wear now for obvious reasons. #Cycling #training #velocidad #PPE #race #machine #ThreadedRodsForBeginners @MatthewNewell@mastodon.social