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Bike Fitter Jon Underhill Reviews the LoreThree

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Fitters around the world have helped shape and share the LoreThree platform with their athletes and customers. Our latest review comes from Jon Underhill at Core Bike Fit in the UK. Watch his review on YouTube or read the transcript below.

"Hi there, my name is John. I'm a professional bike fitter in Topsham, in Exeter, in Devon, in the UK, and I am finally coming online to talk about bike fitting stuff for the first time today—to talk about something absolutely amazing that I have been able to be part of working with and played a small part in helping develop in some way, just through some testing.

I really want to challenge you guys to think of this thing not as an item of clothing, but as a bike component— to think that you can't ride your bike without it, and that this specific component is going to make you feel more connected with your bike. It's going to make you feel like you are able to output more power through your bike, it's going to provide comfort to you, and what I want to introduce to you today is the most wonderful, completely custom-designed shoe by Lore: the LoreThree.

Now, this shoe here is my shoe—it's my left foot shoe. The right is just behind the camera. But what's special about this, if you don't know, is that it starts off with a scan of your foot. So you come into the bike fit studio, or you can use an app—but I prefer people coming into the studio so we can make sure we get the posture right. You do a full 3D scan of your foot, and then you're sent off to Lore, who then create the shell of the shoe and the base plate of the shoe in 3D renders, and then 3D print carbon fiber and a TPU upper to match the shape of your foot.

And what that does is it just provides this most wonderful, comfortable shoe that matches your foot one-to-one, taking into consideration all the little individual items of your foot between left and right—lengths, shapes, all the different bone structures—and they create this wonderful shoe.

And what this does is, when you put it on, it not only feels comfortable but provides you with this absolutely insane level of transfer of the power that you generate as a cyclist to your bike. So riding this is unlike anything I have ever ridden before in my cycling career. It is just phenomenal.

It is easily probably the biggest upgrade you could make to your bike to make you go faster, to feel more connected with your bike, and to have a better cycling experience. It's sort of an unbelievable bit of technology and custom, and I want to tell you all about it."

You can visit Jon's shop in Exeter or find a dealer near you to get scanned. 

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