Originally Posted by FoldingSpace

I absolutely LOVE boa shoes. I picked up two pairs of (women's) Asics Gel Fujirados on sale a few years ago and they were my goto cycling shoe on flat pedals - they were PERFECT and I never had any issues with the mechanisms - they were also machine washable and no matter how I abused them on trails, streets, sand, mud and puddles, they always came out looking perfect.

However I did finally kill a pair - I rode in very snowy, sub zero conditions and I knew my feet were frozen, but when I went to pull out the dial to release the cables, it pulled right off the shoe - likely the glue froze, crystalized and cracked - but there's absolutely no way to glue it back together in a way that'll hold up. So now I'm down to one pair and constantly checking sites for another pair of size 13 womens for my size 10.5 manfeets.

I bought more shoes with similar nylon pull lace systems, but without the Boa crank to do the work and the quick release. And I've noticed that there's a general shortage of Boa shoes - so either the mechanism isn't selling, or there are supply chain issues.