And that's awesome - finding shoes, like finding a saddle, can be a big challenge, so when you find something that works, you stick with it.

...but that doesn't change the fact that they're just adding more upper material on the same lasts, giving you 4mm more spillover vs their regular widths. I'm a ~4E and the High Volume approach (used by most manufacturers: Sidi, Giro, Shimano, etc) just doesn't work for me. Well, it works for me for about an hour, but that's about it. For people with wide feet, and for whom the HV approach just doesn't cut it, Lake and Bont are a some of the only manufacturers that accommodate with a wider last. After years of searching with local shops, I finally broke down and did the mail order thing with Lake - so much better, I wish that I would have done it sooner (well, I wish that shops stocked them and didn't make jumping through the mail order hoops necessary, but that's a different story).