Cyclist guide to heat molding cycling shoes - feat. Bont Cycling Helix + Vaypor S Shoes

Heat moldable cycling shoes allow you to customize your fit without the need for expensive fully custom shoes. Everyone has different feet shapes and sizes which is why one-size-fits-all doesn’t always work with everyone. There are a number of cycling shoes that offer the heat molding capability, with most of them allowing you to mold the shoes in the comfort of your own home. In this guide we’ll go over the process we used to mold our Bont Cycling Vaypor S and the Helix shoes. These extend to other Bont Cycling shoes and potentially other shoes, but please only use them as reference. Despite the anatomical fit of the Bont Cycling shoes, out of the box there were a few slight pressure points. This motivated us to explore the heat molding capabilities to see how well the process would work...

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00:00 Intro
00:11 First Things First
01:01 Preparing Shoes
01:30 Heating Process
02:25 Molding Shoes
03:35 On The Road
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[mvhan]

From what I heard the shoe should have an overall fit before hit molding and not too tight. The heatmoulding is to fine tune the fit but not to make a too small shoe bigger.Does that match your experience?

[retselgaming]

Can 2nd hand bont be bake again or only for the 1st time?

[samuel]

I have a minor bunyon on the inner part of my left foot. The tub area of this shoe rubs a bit in that spot. My question is, during the heat molding process, any idea how much pushing out (in terms of millimeters) with the end of the screwdriver will the shoe/carbon take?

[David-vbtg]

Shave those pins man for the love of...

[richardlam]

As far as I understand the shoes are supposed to be heat molded on a cookie pan and not on the raw oven shelves