The Olympic bicycle road race is less than two weeks away and while only one man and one woman will walk away with gold, Shimano is providing 22 sponsored Olympic cyclists with gold-adorned road shoes to encourage them to go for it!
This is really just a cosmetic change to the SH-R315 shoe, but to get a pair you’ll have to be one of those 22 racers. One rider who won’t likely get to wear a pair in the games will be Samuel Sánchez, the 2008 gold medalist, as he crashed last week in a stage of the Tour de France and was forced to retir with a broken finger and badly bruised upper back.
For the rest of us, we’ll just have to “settle” for the SH-R315