Shimano’s recently updated MW7 (or SH-MW701) shoe is their flagship winter clipless mountain bike shoe. Having been in the SPD pedal game for 30 years this year, you’d think the brand knows a thing or two about the shoes that connect to them, and you’d be right. Shimano shoes are generally excellent, and the MW7 is no exception.
The MW7 sits at the top end of the Shimano shoe line-up, next to the XM9 which is more of an adventures/hiking shoe at the same $300USD price point. There is also a lower specced version of the MW7 — the MW5 — priced at $200. Unfortunately there is no equivalent shoe designed for flat pedals.
There aren’t a whole lot of winter specific mountain bike shoes out there, and the Shimano MW7 was the only one I could find made using Gore-Tex (they use an insulated Gore-Tex liner). That alone should tell you about the quality of this shoe. It’s also probably the most refined looking of the winter shoes available out there, though still a little bulky looking. I can forgive that for what the shoe actually does.
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