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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Firstly, the heel cup of van der Poel\u2019s shoe is white. No current shoe in the RC902 range has a white heel cup. Instead, the heel cup on the currently available RC902s is silver.<\/p>\n
There also appears to be a different lacing setup, with van der Poel\u2019s shoes having what look like fabric lace loops rather than plastic clips.<\/p>\n
The branding is subtly different, too, with no splashy \u2018S-Phyre\u2019 logo alongside the outside edge of the Alpecin-Fenix rider\u2019s kicks.<\/p>\n
Granted, details in van der Poel\u2019s Instagram video are hard to make out, but given the RC902 was released in September 2020<\/a>, and we have only seen a Dura-Ace limited edition<\/a> since then, the possibility of a new flagship road cycling shoe from Shimano seems likely.<\/p>\n The fact the shoes spotted on van der Poel\u2019s Instagram don\u2019t appear to be too visually different from the current version of the shoes might not be that surprising either.<\/p>\n If Shimano has listened to the people wearing the current S-Phyre, it will know the shoe has been commonly criticised, with some finding it narrower than its predecessor.<\/p>\n So, really, the new version might primarily be an alteration to the build and fit of the shoe rather than a drastic overhaul.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Stan Portus Published: Thursday, 17 February 2022 at 12:00 am We\u2019ve spotted Mathieu van der Poel wearing what appears to be the fourth iteration of Shimano\u2019s S-Phyre road shoes. In a video posted to his Instagram, van der Poel is seen getting ready for a ride where he trades pool slides for a pair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26764,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/02\/new-shimano-s-phyre-shoes-worn-by-van-der-poel.jpg",1635,1090,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/02\/new-shimano-s-phyre-shoes-worn-by-van-der-poel-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/02\/new-shimano-s-phyre-shoes-worn-by-van-der-poel-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/02\/new-shimano-s-phyre-shoes-worn-by-van-der-poel-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/02\/new-shimano-s-phyre-shoes-worn-by-van-der-poel-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/02\/new-shimano-s-phyre-shoes-worn-by-van-der-poel-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/02\/new-shimano-s-phyre-shoes-worn-by-van-der-poel.jpg",1635,1090,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Stan Portus Published: Thursday, 17 February 2022 at 12:00 am We\u2019ve spotted Mathieu van der Poel wearing what appears to be the fourth iteration of Shimano\u2019s S-Phyre road shoes. In a video posted to his Instagram, van der Poel is seen getting ready for a ride where he trades pool slides for a pair…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/26763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""Shimano\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2020\/12\/New-S-Phyre-RC9-shoes-2-455184c.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"New\\"")
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