Castelli Nano Shoe Cover

Castelli Nano Shoe Cover

These silicon-coated Lycra booties don’t just fend off wind and rain, they will make you faster.

According to William Fotheringham’s Cyclopedia, wearing shoe covers improve aerodynamics 1%. To put that number into context, Cyclopedia also reveals that a smoothed-out carbon frame will give you a 2% advantage - but that would cost you at least a grand more than a pair of shoe covers. And a carbon frame doesn't keep your feet dry.

• Shoe covers are extra close-fitting overshoes.
• Like overshoes, Castelli's stretchy, waterproof, silicone-coated Lycra shoe covers protects your feet and shoes from wind and rain.
• Castelli Nano Shoe Covers also make you more aerodynamic.
• Heavy-duty YKK zip.
• Silicon/elastic cuffs complete their streamlined appeal.

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Instantly recognisable for its scorpion logo, Castelli is a great cycle clothing company. Perhaps the greatest. The company was founded by Maurizio Castelli in 1974. His early innovations include Lycra shorts, the anatomic chamois and the sublimated-print jersey. Each of these innovations became (and remain) a ubiquitous emblem of road cycling.

Even before the company was founded, the Castelli family was feted by the tifosi. Maurizio’s father owned the famous Milanese sportswear company Vittore Gianni. Papa Castelli tailored Fausto Coppi’s racing wardrobe, from his silk skin suits to his woolen jerseys, throughout the Campionissimo’s reign in the 1940s & ‘50s.

Today, when you read about Castelli’s near-seamless Body Paint range or you recognise the scorpion logo on Team Garmin-Cervélo’s professional race kit, you will appreciate that Castelli, once again, are at the top of their game.

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