Foam Padding

Most carbon fibre based shoes are made with sponge foam padding. It’s light, it’s cheap and it doesn’t crush down. But what it does do is absorb water when it gets wet. So, if your feet sweat, you wipe on the ice,  you ride through a puddle or if it starts raining, your shoes start absorbing the water which makes them very heavy indeed. This type of foam is known in the industry as open cell foam, because the cells are porous. The foam used in making a Bont shoe is a high quality closed cell memory foam which doesn’t absorb water. So you don’t have to worry about them absorbing water whether on the road or the ice.