Time designed what it calls the Sensor 2 system for the footbed or insole, which is a foam material intended to limit vibrations while maintaining rigidity. Cheaper top-line shoes include the Giro Prolight Techlace at £261.99 and the Giro Empire SLX.īut Merlin Cycles has them at £199, and at this price they are very good value indeed.Time designed a modern aesthetic that referenced its past creations There are even more expensive shoes such as the Specialized S-Works EXOS at £450 and the Mavic Comete Ultimate at £630.
The original RRP of £329 put them in the same premium price bracket as the Specialized S-Works 7 (£325) and Shimano S-Phyre RC9 at £319.99. I enjoyed – and am still enjoying – the 'clean' feel of the shoe-pedal interface that these shoes supply and although, as with the stiffness, it's hard to put a number on their efficiency, for me they felt pretty much as good as it gets. But from feel, I would say the Osmos 15 has the equivalent stiffness of its pro-level competitors, but the overall sensation is of comfort and efficiency working together with no harshness. Unlike Specialized, Time does not use a stiffness scale so it's not possible to supply a 'meaningful' figure for the sole's flex and torsion resistance that can be used to compare them with other shoes. > Buyer's Guide: 18 of the best performance road cycling shoes An imperfect fit and a stiff carbon sole is a bad combination, but with the Osmos 15s I could feel the benefit of the very efficient power transfer without any discomfort elsewhere.
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But even these shoes, made from mostly non-stretch materials, take some wearing in, with the tongue remoulding slightly to the top of the foot, and it took a couple of rides, plus some cleat adjustment, before I started feeling truly comfortable and able to evaluate them for performance. The tongue itself, only sewn in at the bottom, is also slightly tricky to position correctly. The IP1s are the top-line Boas that micro-adjust in both directions, so it's easy to tweak them on the fly. But once the Boa IP1s are dialled down, the foot does not move inside the shoe and there's zero chance of any rubbing. There's hot-welded 'spiderweb' reinforcement for extra stability that sits inside the upper right next to the foot, and I was slightly concerned at first that I might feel it, defeating the object of the upper's seamlessness. The seamless upper is made from a standard-looking and feeling PU with mesh panels. As for the sizing, the 44s came up spot on. There will still be plenty of people outside the average of Time's data pool: I would say the Osmos 15s are more similar in fit to Sidi – comparatively narrow and long – than the generally wider Bont or Lake.
However, I've been impressed with the way all the elements of its design combine to supply pro-level performance with hardly any comfort compromised.Ĭlearly with an extremely stiff, 100% carbon sole, a cycling shoe will never feel like a carpet slipper, but Time says it used a huge data pool of 3,000 3D scanned feet to engineer the last, and claims it has managed to identify the ideal shoe's form. Without headline-grabbing features like laces, knitted uppers or crazy-light mesh, at a glance the Osmos 15s might seem a bit ordinary.
Rossignol used its own R&D facility at Montebelluna, Italy, regarded as the global capital of sports footwear, to design the new three-model range of Time shoes with the Osmos 15 as the flagship. The French brand, whose founder Roland Cattin died in 2014, was bought by Rossignol in 2016. They are superior in every way to their predecessor, the heavily padded (heat mouldable) and un-svelte Ulteam RS, which stopped being produced in 2013. The Time Osmos 15 is the third and by far the best pair of Time shoes I've used. Cons: Might be on the narrow side for wider feet.Pros: Stiff, comfortable, lightweight, clever insole design, stylish looking.
The Time Osmos 15 has been meticulously designed with modern tech that makes it every bit as good as the flagship shoes from the latest big names that have taken advantage of its absence. The iconic French brand that made Greg LeMond's shoes in the 1980s is back.
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