Who makes the ugliest MTB shoes?

jonKranked · Oct 10, 2012

Sandwich said:
I've been tearing through my old MTB magazines from like 1997. I couldn't afford them then, but man, MTB shoes used to be ugly. Carnac, Northwave, Sidi. Neon yellow, Red, Blue...the colorblind couldn't design uglier shoes.

I want them. Who still makes awful looking shoes? No black and no white please...

i still have my crazy ass red/yellow/black answer shoes.

edit: these ones:

stevew · Oct 10, 2012

they are all ugly.

stevew · Oct 10, 2012

sh!t.....i think I still have a unworn pair of five tens from when they first came out...too ugly...stuck with vans.

H8R · Oct 10, 2012

jonKranked said:
i still have my crazy ass red/yellow/black answer shoes.

edit: these ones:

I had a pair of those in the late 90's.

I actually got turned down by a hot girl once just because of those shoes. True story.

jonKranked · Oct 10, 2012

H8R said:
I had a pair of those in the late 90's.

I actually got turned down by a hot girl once just because of those shoes. True story.

are you sure you weren't on LSD and the hot girl wasn't just a tree?

CrabJoe StretchPants · Oct 10, 2012

H8R said:
I had a pair of those in the late 90's.

I actually got turned down by a hot girl once just because of those shoes. True story.

SPD double bass drum pedals?

daisycutter · Oct 10, 2012

I still have apair of those Ronald Mc Donald shoes some where as well.

DirtyMike · Oct 10, 2012

I am going to go with Lake as having some of the ugliest shoes

CrabJoe StretchPants · Oct 10, 2012

Ugly SPD shoes are part of what's wrong with cycling. Not as bad as what TLD kits have done, however.

Silver · Oct 10, 2012

DirtyMike said:
I am going to go with Lake as having some of the ugliest shoes

Yeah, Lake's had some really bad ones.

CrabJoe StretchPants · Oct 10, 2012

Sandwich said:
are you kidding? snowboarders, i mean downhill mountain bikers, are so much worse. Even when I ride up at the kingdom trails with a bunch of frenchies all aboot, they have pretty conservative footwear.

It's time for somebody to step up and bring the ugly back. Purple components, carbon fiber, and now ugly shoes.

Did you read my post?

H8R · Oct 10, 2012

jonKranked said:
are you sure you weren't on LSD and the hot girl wasn't just a tree?

Was at a party that I went to after a trail ride. She was flirting with me for half the night. She went to leave and straight up told me she would have went home with me but the shoes ruined it. Never saw her again.

DirtyMike · Oct 10, 2012

H8R said:
Was at a party that I went to after a trail ride. She was flirting with me for half the night. She went to leave and straight up told me she would have went home with me but the shoes ruined it. Never saw her again.

I have a feeling it was more the smell than the shoes and she just did not want to hurt your feeling

johnbryanpeters · Oct 10, 2012

First he wants ugly brake shoes, now he wants ugly bike shoes. There's a moral here someplace...

IH8Rice · Oct 10, 2012

im still rocking my Nike ACG shoes from 1996ish. never thought id ride clipless again but my knees cant take climbs with flats anymore.

Banshee Rider · Oct 10, 2012

AngryMetalsmith · Oct 10, 2012

Sidi Avalanche spd never caught on, hard to figure why.

AngryMetalsmith · Oct 10, 2012

I had a couple of Alpinestar frames back in the day, but can't remember if I ever had a pair of the shoes. Trauma tends to cause you to block some things out I guess.

Wumpus · Oct 10, 2012

http://www.giro.com/us_en/code-7687.html

Wumpus · Oct 10, 2012

IH8Rice said:
im still rocking my Nike ACG shoes from 1996ish. never thought id ride clipless again but my knees cant take climbs with flats anymore.

Loco has a pair of those.

jonKranked · Oct 10, 2012

IH8Rice said:
im still rocking my Nike ACG shoes from 1996ish. never thought id ride clipless again but my knees cant take climbs with flats anymore.

i've got those same pedals. on my second set, actually.

jonKranked · Oct 10, 2012

AngryMetalsmith said:
Sidi Avalanche spd never caught on, hard to figure why.

i saw a NOS pair on ebay last year and almost got them.

bizutch · Oct 10, 2012

THis was my first ever pair and I thought they were awesome at the time. Looking back...they still are:

HAB · Oct 10, 2012

profro · Oct 11, 2012

These were pretty ugly back in the day.

eaterofdog · Oct 11, 2012

ALEXIS_DH · Oct 11, 2012

mtb is becoming too metrosexual.

the other day, my wife went with me helmet shopping.
I went to the local TLD dealer, and was trying some helmets.... when the sales guy came to us, and asked, "what color it your bike?"... "you still have the white/black/red gambler, right?"... "hmmm, you might be interested in this red/white model. will definately match your bike"... "gotta match the bike, you know, everybody is doing it!"... "and here i have some gloves that completely match the helmet".

my wife chuckled and said "so much for a macho, dangerous sport". it was the gayest thing she saw that week.

bizutch · Oct 11, 2012

Be defiant. Buy all black. Nobody wears all black.

auntesther · Oct 11, 2012

Sandwich said:
UGLYTRON 9000

Greates shoes ever....I got some in 1996 and they just crapped out on me this year when the sole pieces fell off in hunks. Replaced with a more currently garish pair of Sidis

CrabJoe StretchPants · Oct 11, 2012

auntesther said:
greates shoes ever....i got some in 1996 and they just crapped out on me this year when the sole pieces fell off in hunks. Replaced with a more currently garish pair of sidis

boooo!

jonKranked · Oct 11, 2012

i would wear any of the shoes in this thread

ALEXIS_DH · Oct 11, 2012

i lusted so much after these shoes, when i was in college

so ugly, yet so pretty.

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