Winter testing of biking gear, nonetheless you sq. it, goes to contain getting moist in some unspecified time in the future. No matter how good the most effective biking overshoes are, even together with a set of mudguards, your footwear are going to get moist ultimately. As lengthy as I’m heat, I can put up with roughly something, however there’s one factor I actually can’t stand, and that’s slipping my ft into moist footwear initially of a journey; it’s one among life’s really nice disagreeable sensations.
Newspaper goes some approach to assuaging the difficulty if one is nicely stocked with stacks of newspaper, however within the digital age, that is extra unlikely than not, and I do hate having to purchase a replica of the Guardian/Telegraph [delete as fits your political persuasion] simply to dry my footwear off.
Simply plug ‘em in, slip one into each soggy shoe (take out the insoles first for best results) and set the timer for how long you want them to stay on, from 3, 6, or 9 hours. Soon enough, jets of warm air will be filling your stinky footwear, and they’ll be dry in no time at all.
I cannot stress enough how much these have improved my winter riding. They live by the shoe rack, so as soon as I come in, once I’ve rinsed off the bike, the shoes go straight on to dry. This means they not only get drier more quickly, but they also stink less as they haven’t stayed damp for three days near a radiator that only comes on for a few hours.
Don’t just take my word for it; Jack Luke, Deputy Editor at BikeRadar and good friend/professional enemy of mine, also swears by his identical set, and even put them top of his gear of the year for 2025. To double down still further, I even bought my mother a set for Christmas last year, and she has been delighted with them ever since.
If you buy nothing else this Amazon Big Deal Day, let it be this and thank me later.