Super-lightweight cycling shoes come loaded with some heavyweight claims and price tags. Sporting the catchy marketing slogan ‘The world’s lightest for the world’s fastest’, a pair of Specialized S-Works Torch Remco cycling shoes can be yours for the princely sum of £549/$699.99. Shaped with input from the great man himself, each shoe weighs just 148.2g (size 41), making them, according to Specialized, ‘the new benchmark for performance in the high mountains’.
“We tend to use the terms ‘mass’ and ‘weight’ interchangeably,” explains Professor Haake. “Weight is the downward force we feel due to the gravitational attraction of the Earth; in outer space we are ‘weightless’ although we still have the same mass of bones, muscles and squishy bits.”
