{"id":17882,"date":"2014-05-12T23:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17882"},"modified":"2014-05-12T23:30:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:30:59","slug":"footbeds-and-shims-for-specialized-pro-mtb-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/footbeds-and-shims-for-specialized-pro-mtb-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Footbeds and Shims for Specialized Pro MTB Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_7921.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"2x 1.5mm varus shims and one blue (moderate) Specialized footbed for Specialized Pro MTB shoes.\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105973-2\/IMG_7921.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a couple rounds of toe numbness and pain on longer rides with my new <a title=\"Carbon Fiber Shoes, Squishy Fork, Lubed Cassette\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/03\/carbon-fiber-shoes-squishy-fork-lubed-cassette\/\">Specialized Pro MTB shoes<\/a>\u00a0(3+ hours, and on 4+ hour hard rides with my older shoes) I\u00a0stopped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraserbicycle.com\/\">Fraser Bicycle and Fitness<\/a>\u00a0intending to pick up a set of higher arch support footbeds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chris.goddard.3576\">Chris Goddard<\/a> happened to be there and he checked me over, gave me a bunch of great advise about things to try, and set me up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialized.com\/us\/en\/ftr\/shoes\/equipsparepartsshoes\/body-geometry-shim-kit\">2x 1.5mm varus shims<\/a> for each foot, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialized.com\/us\/en\/ftr\/shoes\/equipsparepartsshoes\/body-geometry-sl-footbeds\">blue\/moderate support footbeds<\/a>, and the suggestion that I move my cleats back. While I only had my old shoes with me, these were enough to get a good feel for what I should try.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving home I immediately put the footbeds and shims in my new shoes, moved the cleats back a bit (maybe 7mm) and hopped on the trainer to try it out. While I only got in ~10 minutes of spinning,\u00a0the shoes felt like they fit much better to my feet than they had before. I&#8217;m looking forward to a longer ride, but I now feel more like my feet are solidly planted in the shoes when I begin applying force, not that they press into place as I pedal. I hope this translates into even more comfort while riding.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty happy on all of my bikes, but these new shoes had me a bit worried. Then with a bit of foot pain during a six-hour endurance race on Saturday using my old shoes, I got a bit more concerned&#8230; This seems like a good way forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple rounds of toe numbness and pain on longer rides with my new Specialized Pro MTB shoes\u00a0(3+ hours, and on 4+ hour hard&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/footbeds-and-shims-for-specialized-pro-mtb-shoes\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Footbeds and Shims for Specialized Pro MTB Shoes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17883,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17882\/revisions\/17883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}