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Spanish shoemaker Luck offers massive customisation options

Choose your own graphics, width & biomechanical tweaking

Off-the-peg shoes not exciting enough for you? Spanish shoemaker Luck will add your graphics and logo, even your name, to its top-end Invictus shoes.

Dubbed uDesign, the customisation process involves adding your graphics and wording via a straightforward online tool — or just using the graphics Luck supplies if your imagination has seized up.

Surprisingly, Luck offers the customisation process at no extra charge on the €265 (£207) cost of the Invicta shoes.

As well as visual customisation Luck offers several ways you can tweak the biomechanics of the Invicta shoes.

You can have different-sized  left and right shoes if your feet aren't a perfect pair;  choose from five different lasts, based on the width of your feet; varus or valgus sole angle correction up to 30° in 5° increments; and up to 30mm of leg length correction. The latter costs between €17 and €170. Left and right are individually customisable, so the possibilities are almost endless.


Also with two-bolt fitting for mountain biking or commmuting

The Invictus shoes have two ATOP dial closures (rather like BOA laces) and a Velcro strap, a carbon fibre sole and microfibre upper. They look like decent value even without all the custom options though we'll let you know in detail when tech editor Mat Brett gets himself a set.

For more information get over to Luck's website.

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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The _Kaner | 9 years ago
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Swanky disco slippers....can I have mine vajazzled too

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Simmo72 | 9 years ago
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i'm going to have a huge L and R on mine as I always struggle on early morning rides

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TheHound | 9 years ago
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Even without all the custom stuff that's a pretty decent price for a top of line pair of shoes.

I wonder if they would refuse to put some graphics on that were a tad risky.

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notfastenough replied to TheHound | 9 years ago
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TheHound wrote:

Even without all the custom stuff that's a pretty decent price for a top of line pair of shoes.

I wonder if they would refuse to put some graphics on that were a tad risky.

I'd love a WWII spitfire-type theme - snarling teeth at the front and a belle-type image of a pretty girl along the side. Tally ho chaps!

Or a dragon. Or a ninja.

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notfastenough | 9 years ago
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You can even specify the varus/valgus forefoot tilt - this is about as close to fully custom shoes as most of us are likely to get. Very nice.

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ajmarshal1 | 9 years ago
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Ooh. Now I can rip off some of David Millar's awesome eloquence of movement shoe designs!

Result.

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glynr36 | 9 years ago
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No link?

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tweekysenior replied to glynr36 | 9 years ago
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Last line. They may have added it after your post

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