The cleat channel is so incredibly deep that even with the additional shims included with the shoes, it's utterly impossible to clip-in to Mallet DH pedals. It's a silly design, and there's no obvious solution to it.

If you need to walk around in these you won’t feel like the tin man in them. They are the closest riding shoe to feel like a normal sneaker but have a stiff enough shank that you can put the power down through the pedals. The inner ankle padding is so nice and doesn’t look out of place. I’ve ridden stiffer shoes that I could barley drop my heals and making for a sketch ride in the chunkier stuff, these are super playful. The only draw back keeping them from 5 stars is the area where the cleat and pedal meet is pretty tight on my XT pedals so Clipping in you need to be very precise and clipping out rubs on the rubber of the sole of the shoe and takes a tiny bit more turning of the ankle to clip out. I float between 9 and 9.5’s in this shoe I’m a 9.