For many of us Sidi’s Ergo 2 shoe represents the hallowed benchmark for high-performance road slippers. Whether we’d actually stump up the nearly three hundred odd quid for them for them is here or there, and whether they are indeed better than a pair of Specialized S-Works BG Fit shoes, or Northwave’s Extreme Tech SBS is also not the issue, they’ve always just been our personal metaphoric holy grail, when it comes to road footwear that is. Regardless of the other contenders for our affections, their cost, and all the other distractions that may temper our devotion, such as the notorious Pozzatto covered in baby oil ad, or that annoying TV commercial with Basso and Nibali cooking up shoe flavoured pasta, we’ve persevered and stayed true to the Ergo 2. Until now.
As you’ll notice, if you have the power of sight, there’s a new Ergo on the block, the unimaginatively named ‘Ergo 3‘, and its replaced its predecessor, both as the top dog in the Italian footwear maker’s range and as the thing we stare at most frequently when we’ve dawdling around Internet retailers’ websites on a Friday afternoon (don’t tell the boss).
Kitted out with new vented carbon sole, which is 38g lighter than the carbon lite version, the Ergo 3 has a redesigned heel retention system, 3 front closures and is constructed from a mixture of Vernice microfibre and nylon mesh upper. Which is all well and good, and very important for power transfer, comfort etc, but just look at them! They’re a thing of virile Italian beauty, if Monica Bellucci was a three bolt cleat pattern performance road shoe…ah sorry.
Available in white, black, red/white and blue/white, we’re very fortunately due a test pair in soon, so we’ll let you know if our Ergo-based shoe fetish is worthwhile or not as soon as we can. For further info, and a peak at some of the colour options you’ll probably have to take a trip to their homeland to snag, visit Sidi’s site.
