For 2024 Shimano as soon as once more tweaks their top-tier S-Phyre shoe line-up, with a SH-903 sequence throughout highway, triathlon, and XC mountain biking. On the highway, the brand new RC9 PWR as soon as once more reshapes the Boa dial closure configuration in a bid to enhance high quality adjustment and energy switch. Off-road, the newest XC9 will get the refined higher launched as road-only final 12 months. And now, triathlon joins the top-tier Shimano S-Phyre household for the primary time with a closure mixture designed to get out and in of sooner within the transition zone…
All-new Shimano S-Phyre triathlon racing shoe
The true novelty within the 2024 Shimano S-Phyre shoe household is the TR9. The primary ever top-tier S-Phyre triathlon racing shoe. Tailored from the favored RC903 mashed up with the TR901 in principle, the brand new SH-TR903 is definitely a very new design.
It contains a extra ventilated higher, a decrease reduce, and a brand new strap & Boa retention mixture optimized for sooner transitions on and off the bike.
Tech particulars
The brand new tri shoe retains a big mid-foot velcro strap for the primary retention since it may be rapidly opened broadly. However makes use of a more moderen fast drying woven strap materials. The general higher is an identical easy artificial microfiber like different 903-series footwear. However it will get bigger perforations just like the 902 footwear, and a warmth welded in mesh toe vent just like the outdated 901 footwear did.
Newly, a single side-mounted Boa Li2 dial and laces cross the midfoot 3 occasions. That gives high quality micro adjustment management as soon as you might be pedaling out of the transition.
It additionally contains a considerably decrease plastic heel cup that Shimano claims will easy transitioning onto the bike out of the water. In addition to a barefoot liner after all. The shoe additionally rotates its heel loop 90° to make it simpler to get the footwear on. And it retains the trusted triathlon toe bumper to maintain the footwear wanting good even with the occasional transition stumble.
The TR9 is available in entire sizes 36-48, plus halves 41-46, in crew blue or matte gunmetal grey. A hole carbon composite highway sole building is designed to empty water away as you pedal. It charges a ten out of 12 for stiffness, with a claimed shoe weight of 250g (measurement 42).
Shimano S-Phyre highway footwear add RC9 PWR energy
Shimano’s top-tier S-Phyre highway & XC footwear have gone back-and-forth with the high quality particulars of how they organize Boa dial retention over the previous few years. They usually return to a single alloy Boa Li2 dial on the shoe’s aspect to ship the perfect energy switch. That paired with a maze of plastic wire guides and a velcro toe strap
This ‘new’ RC9 PWR shoe – or in Shimano communicate, SH-RC903PWR – isn’t actually all that ‘new’, only a new mixture. That is the very same configuration you’ll have discovered on the earlier technology RC9 T observe shoe – SH-RC902T – with the earlier technology higher.
The RC903PWR does use the identical 903-series micro-perforated artificial higher. And it will get the identical 12/12 stiffness low-stack, full carbon sole. Simply 5g heavier than the commonplace RC9, Shimano says the S-Phyre RC9 PWR is the best highway shoe for time trial racers, and highly effective sprinters on the highway or observe, at a claimed 230g (per shoe, measurement 42). They usually come solely in white, as a result of it’s sooner, proper?
XC903 cross-country mountain bike & CX replace
Shimano S-Phyre XC footwear have been the mainstay of many high cross-country and cyclocross racers for 12 months. And one of many locations we’ve noticed mid-development prototypes alongside the best way. Now of their third official iteration of the XC9, Shimano provides mountain bikers the identical newest S-Phyre 903 sequence perforated higher. Now, paired to the identical confirmed grippy Ultread outsole because the 902-series.
Even much less has modified right here on the SH-XC903 over the earlier technology. Actually, making the XC903 shoe look extra just like the earlier XC 901 technology, simply with higher dials and sole.
The newest technology XC9 remains to be a 11/12 stiffness with a carbon sole & detachable toe spikes. Claimed weight is 290g per shoe (42) , obtainable in black, white, or crew blue.
