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Location: My House
Custom Fitting Lake CX401 Shoes
With Team Wiggle being lucky enough to be supported by Lake Shoes I managed to get hold of a pair of custom fit Lake CX401 road shoes. I have been using the Lake CX330C road shoe for the last two season and have got on with them really well but there is nothing quite like having the shoe fitted to your feet rather than making your feet fit the shoe. Although the CX330C fit really well they don’t compare to the fitted CX401.
Martin form Moore Large kindly agreed to come to my house and fit the CX401 shoes for me…what a service. Martin showed up at my house with an oven and we were soon set up in my shed ready to start the process. Whilst the oven was warming I set up my bike on the turbo trainer so that the shoe could be fitted to my foot in the correct position I would be cycling in. One shoe at a time was then placed into the oven for a few minutes until the carbon sole/heel cup was moldable, then the shoe was place on my foot and loosely tightened. As the shoe is cooling Martin is molding the carbon around my heel and foot whilst I’m sat on the turbo trainer. Then the shoe is tightened some more and this process is repeated until the shoe cools right down.
Then once that process is complete it is time to have a pedal and see how the shoe feels and the minor adjustments are made like lacing the boa lace through the shoe. Once I was happy with the fit the next shoe was fitted in the same way…simple as that! After a few rides with the new shoes they felt noticeably stiffer and more responsive but this does reduce the comfort slightly. I would prefer the shoes to be stiff as I want to perform better in races so want all my power going through the pedal and this shoe does this perfectly!
I would like to say a big thanks to Wiggle and Martin from Moore Large for supplying and fitting the shoes, it was a great experience and I now have a perfect fitting pair of shoes. I would recommend to any one who is looking to gain an advantage in their racing to get a custom fitted pair of shoes especially by some one as experienced as Martin (who fit’s shoes for people like Tour De France Sprinter Tyler Farrar).
Ben
