Giro Factor Techlace shoes review

Giro has pooled all of its cycling shoe knowledge to create a very competitive race shoe – but will we love it as much as its predecessors?

Cycling Weekly Verdict

This is a great option for those looking for a performance shoe without losing that much-needed comfort. The Techlace offers everything fully laced shoes can achieve in terms of fit but also offers on-the-fly adjustment.

Reasons to buy
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    Lightweight

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    Comfortable

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    Better solution than full-lace shoes

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    Price

Reasons to avoid
  • -

    Looks

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    Not the stiffest

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Let’s get the worst thing about the new Giro Factor Techlace shoes out of the way. This is very personal thing, but I don’t like the looks. However, a few simple changes will shoot this shoe into the beautiful category in which its fully laced brother sits, the Giro Empire SLX as worn by the likes of Taylor Phinney and Sir Bradley Wiggins.

The ‘race-bred’ cycling shoe amalgamates the three closure systems we’ve seen individually on shoes previously; Velcro, laces and Boa style dials. In practice it brings the best of all three to good use here: the shoes are very comfortable and fit nicely along the length and breadth of the foot.

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