cycling shoes

[avocado]

im thinking about going to clipless peddles. id much prefer mountain to road shoes as i am not very graceful and dont wanna feel like im ice skating while walking around. also, it would be awesome if i could find all this in a vegan shoe.
any suggestions? thanks:cool:

[laurie15]

avocado,
i'm not sure if you are familiar with brendan brazier, who is a famous vegan triathlete who developed 'vega' products. anyway, maybe you can contact him or his 'people' and see... he really, really advocates veganism and i would think he would use them if they exist.

[avocado]

great, thanks! :)

[laurie15]

no problem! good luck :)

[Bof]

I Googled 'synthetic cycling shoes' and got a whole swag of results. :)

[Cassiel]

avocado, when you settle on one, will you post again? I'll be interesting in seeing what you find. I'm considering going clipless as well.

[avocado]

avocado, when you settle on one, will you post again? I'll be interesting in seeing what you find. I'm considering going clipless as well.

will do!:) i checked the peta website and it said that sidi and northwave make some vegan shoes. i looked ad the sites and they didnt say anything about materials so ill email them and post the response :D

[avocado]

i emailed sidi shoes asking about materials, including animal- based glues and i was told all of sidi's shoes are vegan friendly, no animal by-products:):vebo:

heres the website: http://www.sidiusa.com/

[Skylark]

That's awesome, avocado!

Another option, depending on how you feel about second-hand leather (OK, technically it's third-hand since it belonged to the animal first), is to go to a used sporting goods place and see what they have. But it's also great to support vegan goods suppliers.

[Cassiel]

sidi, eh? Cool! Thanks for the info. :)

[Brandon]

Uh, wow. Those are expensive! Awesome that they are vegan. I'll stick to normal shoes I guess. :p