Specialized (United States) - Press Release: S-Works Exos. The speed of light.

Lightness is more than just lightweight. It’s when agility’s met with power. It’s when simply looking at your shoes, of all things, motivates you to ride. And that’s what the S-Works EXOS have captured. They’ve changed cycling shoes forever, stripping them down to only the necessities, and leaving you with the feeling of lightness.

99 grams:

S-Works Exos 99:

These shoes will be your own piece of cycling history. That’s because they’re the pinnacle of shoe performance and technology. Every engineering trick in the book went into making a sub-100-gram (size 42) shoe that doesn’t give anything up to performance in the name of weight. Every detail, from the multi-directional carbon plate to the material and pattern of the laces, has been obsessed over and scrutinized. It’s the absolute best we could make, and only 500 pairs will ever be made.

The lightest cycling shoes ever made - When Every Gram Counts:

To make these 99-gram phenoms, we took a space-age material called Dyneema™, gathered the engineers that brought you the Tarmac, and created a design that follows no rules. We redesigned the heel counter, removed the toe box, developed a 50-gram carbon outsole via ply-by-ply carbon analysis that took nearly as much time to develop as the Tarmac itself, and cut every possible gram of material we could to make the lightest pair of cycling shoes ever made.

No flexing allowed - Stiffness Without Sacrifice:

With materials like the non-stretch Dyneema™ upper to cradle your heel, we’ve ensured excellent power transfer. Pair that with a 50-gram outsole with stiffness equal to other S-Works models and you get maximum efficiency in the lightest possible package. Good luck flexing these shoes.

Adaptive science - Exoskeleton Comfort:

We didn’t forget comfort. While nearly everything else has been stripped from these shoes in the name of performance, we kept all of the ergonomically designed, scientifically tested Body Geometry features you’ve come to love. But the comfort of EXOS goes beyond Body Geometry. These shoes have a stiff Dyneema® exoskeleton that cradles your foot, and it’s been combined with a malleable toe box that gives you the comfort of a slipper. Top it off with lightweight laces that evenly distribute pressure across your foot, and you’re left with all-day comfort you can rely on.