by Dombo » Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:36 am
[quote="Rob Q"]Or if you speak to Dombo chew through 5 packets of nurofen
mixed up with some paracetomol for getting truly in the doped-out zone. Stick some Grateful Dead on the ipod and the landscape just flies by. No aspirin though. You come off and hit the road after a packet of those puppies and you'll never stop bleeding.
Seriously though, the Spesh BG footbeds are very good. I have them in my mtb shoes and my new road shoes are Spesh so have them as standard. I did try the Sidas custom footbeds suggested when I did a Cyclefit fititng a couple of years ago (interestingly not to cure hotfoot but apparently to get my total bill over £200) and they seemed to make things worse. The foam metatarsal buttons they sold me a while later didn't help much. The problem with custom footbeds is that the force you exert when standing on the mould, and hence the shape you make, is fine for ski boots when you'll be standing all day, but pedalling is different, with weight distributed between your bum and hands so your foot must be exerting a different imprint inside the shoe.
I have read that moving the cleats back slightly from the ball of the foot can help - apparently some of the Ride Across America guys practically have them on their heels.