79pmooney

I've been using 45 North Fasterkatts as winter boots. I've put my entire foot underwater with those and stayed dry. They are also quite walkable.

I suggested in the other thread getting some silicon sealant and sealing up the holes in the shoe soles around the bolts. Thinking a little more about it, I would look for a sealant with a nice long cure time, mark out the cleat location, remove the cleat, apply the sealer, replace the cleat to the marks and gently clean up the excess.

Edit: but as I said on that thread,if yo do longer rides and do not have a way of keeping water out of your shoes, holes in the soles are a godsend. (I wish I had a recording of the words of the riders after the 1976 105 mile Maine International whose shoes did not have those holes. At the finish, it had been raining hard for 16 hours.)

Ben