FOUR MONTHS IS AN ETERNITY in cycling. Just two issues ago, I was reviewing Northwave’s impressive-but-not-quite-perfect Extreme Pro 3 road shoes. At the time, they were the top dog in the Italian footwear giant’s impressive stable of performance road shoes. But not any longer.
After hundreds of hours of discrete real-world and ergo testing by a small army of professional riders – including Northwave ambassador Filippo Ganna, who reportedly raced the entire 2023 season in them – last October saw the official launch of the Veloce Extreme.
100 per cent designed and handmade in Italy, Northwave has taken the considerable lessons learned from the past to create the Veloce Extreme, before adding in a liberal helping of new technology and a Stelvio-sized mountain of lab testing. The result is what
