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Features, Shimano, SPD, Tech, Tech news - July 30, 2020

Shimano’s 2021 shoe range brings high-end features to low-end prices

Shimano has announced a wide-ranging update to its footwear range, with 15 new or redesigned models. There’s a little something for everyone in Shimano’s latest announcement – entry-level road and mountain bike shoes, touring sandals, triathlon footwear, and a jazzy new colour scheme on the brand’s range-topping RX8 gravel shoe. That last one is the …

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An ode to the Shimano PD-M520, the world’s most reliable pedal

Last week, I was washing my bike after a muddy gravel ride. As the hose’s jet of water struck the pedals, they spun in a flurry, shooting droplets of water off in graceful parabolas. As I watched, head a bit numb from exertion and still caked in filth, I remember thinking that there was a …

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CT Recommends, the video series: Road cycling pedals

Here at CyclingTips we get to test a bunch of stuff, some of us more than others (here’s looking at you Huang and Rome). Some of it — no, scrap that, most of it — is super fancy and bling. Yes, we’re a damn lucky bunch. But there are some items we just stand by …

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Shimano RX8 gravel shoe review: Not just mountain bike kicks

Shimano’s new gravel race shoe, the RX8, fills a somewhat unexpected void between its existing shoe options. If you were to draw a Venn diagram with shoes built for cross country and cyclocross racing, and those designed for road racing, the new RX8 would be the circle in the middle — the perfect place for …

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Shimano’s 2021 shoe range brings high-end features to low-end prices

An ode to the Shimano PD-M520, the world’s most reliable pedal

CT Recommends, the video series: Road cycling pedals

Shimano RX8 gravel shoe review: Not just mountain bike kicks

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