BikeRadar Bargains: 4 excellent deals on MTB shoes
Grab yourself a cracking deal on a fresh pair of off-road kicks
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Summer is just around the corner and many of you will be thinking of getting a sweet pair of new cycling kicks for the summer. With this in mind, we’ve pulled together the best deals on our four favourite XC race shoes from around the web for this week’s edition of BikeRadar Bargains.
Giro Empire VR90 — £229.99 £195.49
With a stiff carbon sole supplied by Easton, matched with a lightweight yet durable upper, these came out of our grouptest as one of our favourite shoes.
Shimano XC90 — £285 £179.99
Sidi Drako Carbon — £325 £169
Mavic Crossmax SL Ultimate — £265 £185.50
With a heartily sized toe box and plush liner, the Mavic Crossmax’s are among the comfiest XC shoes we’ve used, and with 30% off currently at Wiggle these shoes won’t hurt either your feet or wallet.
Authors
Jack Luke is the deputy editor at BikeRadar and has been fettling with bikes for his whole life. Always in search of the hippest new niche in cycling, Jack is a self-confessed gravel dork, fixie-botherer, tandem-evangelist and hill climb try hard. Jack thinks nothing of bikepacking after work to sleep in a ditch or taking on a daft challenge for the BikeRadar YouTube channel. He is also a regular contributor to the BikeRadar podcast. With a near encyclopaedic knowledge of cycling tech, ranging from the most esoteric retro niche to the most cutting-edge modern kit, Jack takes pride in his ability to seek out stories that would otherwise go unreported. He is also particularly fond of tan-wall tyres, dynamo lights, cup and cone bearings, and skids. Jack has been writing about and testing bikes for more than five years now, has a background working in bike shops for years before that, and is regularly found riding a mix of weird and wonderful machines. Jack can also often be seen zooming about with his partner aboard their beloved tandem, Cecil.
