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Submitted by
Edson Sandoval
a Cross Country Rider
from Mexico City
Date Reviewed: June 20, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Strengths: | Look, durability, comfort | | Weaknesses: | Maybe weight | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano shoes | | Bottom Line: | They´re a excellent shoes in all aspects. I have 3 pairs of shoes and the others are stored because a never use them becaus My aragos are better than them except in the weight (200 g/ a half pound). This pair of shoes permits use it like a tennis shoe and the cleat don't difficult the walk. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tony
a
from NY
Date Reviewed: May 5, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Sunken Meadow is nice... | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | MTBR.com | | Strengths: | This is an addendum to my previous review below... | | Weaknesses: | This is an addendum to my previous review below... | | Similar Products Used: | This is an addendum to my previous review below... | | Bike Setup: | This is an addendum to my previous review below... | | Bottom Line: | Ok after some thought, I figured let me see if I can maybe replace the actual cleat holding body with another. Took out the insole, and there was a cardboard cutout right beneath the cleat holding assembly. Took that and cleaned the screws and assembly, everything looked and worked fine. Put everything back in and tightened it up, went on the 40 mile NYC bike tour, no problems. Dont know why it seemed to be stripped, and why one of the screws initially fell out, but all seems fine now except...I notice with these shoes you have to have the laces wound tight, cause if not they move around and wont disengage quickly enough for me (I guess thats why other shoes are so damned stiff). Not a big problem unless, your gonna fall off a cliff or get hit by a truck. Overall a good shoe in all categories, that have held up well for me and are very comfortable. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tony
a Weekend Warrior
from NY
Date Reviewed: April 8, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | mtbreview.com | | Strengths: | Looks nice, not like your conventional "Thief of Baghdad" looking cycling shoe, with the front toe going up. Rugged and durable, as well as being comfortable. | | Weaknesses: | Part where cleat screws in to the actual shoe, gets stripped too easily and wont hold cleat. | | Similar Products Used: | Alpine stars (great shoe, you just look like a clown wearing them). | | Bike Setup: | Rocky Mountain Element Race, hooked up to the max. | | Bottom Line: | Shoe wont make you look like a fool in non cycling circles, cleat screws strip way too easily. Shoe is rugged and strong, grips well and wont fall apart on your feet, and I must say it is very comfy. Whats the sense of making such a good shoe if it wont hold the cleat, not a good value if everything else works except the intended function. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
kiko toying
a Cross Country Rider
from chi town USA
Date Reviewed: January 20, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | can't tell | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$60.00 | | Purchased At: | performance | | Strengths: | nice design you don't look like some neon sign | | Weaknesses: | the tongue broke after 1 ride real bad | | Similar Products Used: | shimano | | Bike Setup: | taccoa full xtr rf cranks BB and ck wheelset | | Bottom Line: | really bad experience with the shoe can't return it to performance 'coz I can't find the receipt emailed cannondale said they can't help out real bad for a shoe I use for 1 ride it still smells new bad durability | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Shawn
a Cross Country Rider
from Seattle
Date Reviewed: September 13, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | Performance | | Strengths: | comfort
light weight
dries fast
very walkable
great tread/traction | | Weaknesses: | some clicking at cleat attachments under heavy load
new and improved price: $100 | | Similar Products Used: | many | | Bike Setup: | bikes w/spd pedals | | Bottom Line: | Great shoes. Extremely comfortable. And all MTB shoes should have this kind of traction -- I should know: I suffered a broken back due to a clumsy fall while wearing harder&smaller-soled shoes that slipped in a crash and threw me into an awkward landing position. Spinal injuries are not fun. Get some traction on your feet!
These shoes, purchased while injured, gave me the confidence to get back on my bike and make it through a tough recovery.
HOWEVER: It is my understanding that the history of these shoes is this: They were called "MC-900" through 2001, and they were widely available for $40. For 2002 and beyond, they have been renamed "Arago", and other than color scheme, the only thing that has changed is the price: $100. What happened? Sorry -- no deal! I would buy THREE more pairs if I could get them for $40 again, but at $100 for the very same product, I'll be shopping a manufacturer other than Cannondale when my two current pairs wear out. What a filthy, greedy shame. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Gudmundur Thorisson
a Cross Country Rider
from Long Island, USA
Date Reviewed: August 28, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$78.00 | | Purchased At: | Paragonsport, NY city | | Strengths: | Wide, for my clunky, wide feet.
Mesh upper allows good breathing
High heel keeps foot in shoe | | Weaknesses: | None so far, will report later if any | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano clipless, can't remember model, with velcro, decent except too narrow I found eventually. Will be discarded now! | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Big Sure '97, STX/LX, V-brakes, Manitou front shock | | Bottom Line: | Actually, just bought those today and have been walking around for a few hours. A good variation on the biking show theme; fairly wide and comfortable for my wide feet. Has clipless attachments which are essential in my opinion, recreational or not. These will be used to get to and from work and other places, hence will get quite a bit of usage beyond the weekend warrior kind of thing...
Only concerns are with wet/cold weather performance in my home country Iceland, but I believe the quick-drying attribute other reviewers have described could do the trick for me.
NB: will report later once I've used them for a couple of months | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dunko
a Racer
from Australia
Date Reviewed: July 31, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Love it all | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$35.00 | | Purchased At: | Performance | | Strengths: | Nice looking and comfortable | | Weaknesses: | Nil | | Similar Products Used: | Old rockhopper shoes | | Bike Setup: | N?A | | Bottom Line: | I race in em, I go downhill in em, and can even wear em off the bike. For the price, these are a super, fairly rigid all purpose shoe | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tex
a Cross Country Rider
from Austin, TX, USA
Date Reviewed: March 21, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Walnut Creek | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$59.00 | | Purchased At: | Nashbar.com | | Strengths: | Review is for the MC900. Best looking shoe I could find, very comfortable, well-built, reasonable price. | | Weaknesses: | None that I've found yet. | | Similar Products Used: | None - first clipless shoe. | | Bike Setup: | Klein Adept Race - stock | | Bottom Line: | A great shoe that hasn't let me down yet. It's held up well so far and is one of the few normal looking shoes out on the market. It's very comfortable and works well with my shimano 959's without any modification to the sole. Looked at a lot of others that had good reviews but didn't like the psychedelic neon baseball cleat look. Don't think you'll be disappointed, especially for the price. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
verslowrider
a
from Central WA
Date Reviewed: July 28, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | REI | | Strengths: | - comfort, even when wet
- durability (SEE BELOW)
- great in dirt, mud, etc.
- fairly breathable, seem to dry quickly | | Weaknesses: | - Probably not ideal for racing (if you're into that)
- So comfortable I find myself running around all day in them, to the detriment of my cleats.
- Had to trim a little rubber off the bottom of one shoe- apparently a cutter in the factory wasn't working quite right and had an incorrectly threaded screw due to the misaligned cover over the screw holes. Fortunately they hadn't messed up the threads. | | Similar Products Used: | First bike shoe | | Bike Setup: | Time ATACS on the old GT mountainbike and the new Surly Crosscheck. | | Bottom Line: | THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE WOMAN'S VERSION- which probably has a different last and color, but other than that it's the same.
This weekend I accidently ended up riding over some hidden barbed wire. My front tire threw the wire up over the front my shoe, pulled a substantial length across the toebox sideways like a saw blade, then ended up buried in the tread of my back tire.
I fully expected to see a torn up shoe and some blood when I stopped, but THERE WAS NO VISIBLE DAMAGE TO THE SHOE. !!!!
I'd give it one less flaming turd for having the minor sole rubber I had to cut out, but I've never seen a "tennis shoe" that could survive barbed wire zipping across the toes. It actually gained that one star back this weekend and then some. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
well hung squirrel
a Weekend Warrior
from essex, england
Date Reviewed: June 21, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | red bull at coed y brenin | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | chelmer cycles | | Strengths: | sooo comfy and light.
don't look like cycling shoes.
loads of mesh for venting and drying quick.
chunky grippy soles.
subtle colours. | | Weaknesses: | none so far | | Similar Products Used: | shimano m-055 (had 'em for 5 years so time for a change)
shimano w-100 (too heavy and waterproof for summer)
| | Bike Setup: | mantra comp, x-vert supers, xt/xtr, machinetech, thompson, hope+617 ceramics, panaracer fire 1.8's | | Bottom Line: | brilliantly comfy and cool for the summer. can wear them to work without looking stupid. sensible colours and look like i can chuck them in the washing machine. don't buy if you want race shoes - they're trail/looning about boots. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dave h.
a Cross Country Rider
from israel
Date Reviewed: May 30, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | dead sea pleasures | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | u.s.a | | Strengths: | very solid, its a quality purchase and it handels great so far under intensive work and harsh conditions. | | Weaknesses: | none so far | | Similar Products Used: | first clipess shoe | | Bike Setup: | santacruz superlight, time atac pedals | | Bottom Line: | saw it on the net, checket the reviews on mtbr, got it and im happy ever since! good for traveling-cross country style, looks nice and very comfortable. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Phat Boy
a Racer
from Houston, Texas
Date Reviewed: April 14, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Great looks, have held up much better than Nikes I previously had. Plus, you don't look like a gay genie if you wear them into the grocery store. | | Weaknesses: | Wore them last weekend in an adventure race. It had thunderstormed the night before, and the soles held mud like it was nobody's business. I had to run most of the bike trail, and when I was on the bike, I could not clip in because my shoes were so gunked up. | | Similar Products Used: | Nike Inyo | | Bike Setup: | Trek 8000, XTR, RS SID | | Bottom Line: | Cool shoes, great for tooling around, but not the best for racing. Price is right too. I'd give them 5 chilis overall if they worked a little better in adverse conditions. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David Tishenkel
a Downhiller
from San Diego, Ca
Date Reviewed: February 15, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | noble canyon | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | These shoes are the best I have seen to date. I am basically a downhiller and needed a good pair of shoes that I could wear and not clip in if needed. These shoes are great! They are like sneakers. I use them in spinning class to clip in and go right to downhilling without clipping in. I can even wear them to work if I want. As I said they finally have a pair of shoes that look like sneakers. cool ones to boot. | | Weaknesses: | laces can get in the way sometimes. | | Bike Setup: | gary fisher level betty
marzochi JRt
manitou bazooka
xtr
hayes | | Bottom Line: | Best all purpose comfortable shoe I have ever seen. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
frank
a Cross-Country Rider
from florida
Date Reviewed: December 25, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
tom brown | | Duration Product Used: |
6 months | | Strengths: |
looks and durability | | Weaknesses: |
none | | Similar Products Used: |
none, these shoes convinced me to go clipless | | Bike Setup: |
Haro. with race face and xtr goodies | | Bottom Line: | these are the best shoes out, im surprised the other companies are still making ugly shoes and not trying to copy these.. i wear em everywhere. click click click click | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Vinnie
a Cross-Country Rider
from blacksburg, va
Date Reviewed: October 13, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
anything remotely dangerous | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
durable construction
cool-ass style
laces
nobody knows they are bike shoes | | Weaknesses: |
none | | Similar Products Used: |
none, I saw these and said, those be the wons I want. | | Bike Setup: |
GT Rebound | | Bottom Line: | These things kick ass. Super easy to clean up, decent ventilation, and after three months of daily use the shoes are still in excellent condition. If you are not a racer and want to go clipless, get these shoes. Oh yeah and people think that they are regular shoes, they always ask about the clicking noise when I walk from the bike rack to class. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
lcunnion
a Weekend Warrior
from usa
Date Reviewed: August 27, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
*Great Looking
*Easy to get around in | | Weaknesses: |
I'm not a racer so my pros and cons are for recreationalists | | Similar Products Used: |
i've only tried them on,
i haven't taken them for a spin*specialized mountain comp
*shimano (i can't remember the model but it's a trail shoe type)
*nike inyo | | Bike Setup: |
94 stumpjumper
lx crankset
look S2X pedals | | Bottom Line: | These are my first pair of clipless shoes/pedals and i'm glad i made the switch. these shoes work well for me both on the bike and off (although, i hate the sound of my cleats on asphalt). they can get a little toasty as they are big clunky trail sneakers. the material seems durable. i have accidentally whipped the shoes into the chain whithout any noticable damage. comfortable. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
S1dDhaRtHa
a Weekend Warrior
from Mt. Pleasant
Date Reviewed: August 22, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
White Rim | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Bottom Line: | This is second review of Arago, after using it over a week by now. I've walked in it pretty much everywhere, and tested it. Last week, there was enormous rainstorm in Salt Lake City, and it was pouring down when I went outside for a walk. It obvoiusly got wet, but not too much to the point where it gets unpleasant to walk it them. Actually they dried really quickly. I guess it's due to the fabric used for the top part of the shoe. I think it's called something like Mesh or something. It allows decent air flow through it, that when it gets wet, it dries quick, when you're going fast on your bike, you can feel the air coming through the top of the shoes, unlike many other shoes that just wraps around your foot and get all sweaty. I can't guarantee you it will be the best, but as far as the ventilation of shoes are concerned, I would recommend these. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
S1dDhaRtHa
a Weekend Warrior
from Mt. Pleasant
Date Reviewed: August 10, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
White Rim Trail@Canyonland N.P. | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
Great look..
Wide heels..
Comfortable..
+all those good feelings that you get when you get a new pair of shoes that you really wanted.. =) | | Weaknesses: |
Haven't found yet.. | | Similar Products Used: |
Specialized Rockhopper
Answer Flatfoot | | Bike Setup: |
'96 GT Karakoram
Upgraded RS Quadra 21R
XT Rear V-brake
XT Rear Derailuer | | Bottom Line: | Just got it ordered today.. Have been walking in it for all this afternoon and feels comfortable so far.. Like I said, I'm getting all the good feelings that I get when you get fresh nice, good-looking shoes.. I don't think any of my judgement right now would make sense for that long.. Let me say few things.. This is so far, the best looking Cannondale bikeshoes.. Go on www.cannondale.com and look up all those other shoes.. Its colors are like pink and combination of blue..so on and so forth.. Bottom line, good thing they are not out there on market.. =) No offense.. I know Cannondale has done a great wonderful job finally.. Like one saying in one of their advertisements,
Our clothing designers have worked very hard to keep our bike engineers from dressing like geeks.
Yep, you guys did.. =) Good job, Cannondale!
Second, I've tried all the other shoes I mentioned above, and they had narrow heel base.. which meant I couldn't wear these everywhere, no matter what I wore.. Like my Jnco pants that I re-designed for riding bike have frayed heel because of dragging everywhere.. Arago has decent heel base.. It's not extraordinarily bigger, but almost as big as my Adidas running shoes..
I like the color, combination of black, gray, and yellow make a great look.. I sold my Specialized Rockhopper few days ago, and now I'm going to sell my Answer one.. because I don't need any other pairs.. There are the ones I wanted..
Wait for another review soon~
I'll give 5 stars for the great first impression and being better than the other two shoes I owned previously.. | | Overall Rating: |
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