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Best aero overshoes 2025: Shoe covers for faster feet

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Best aero overshoes 2025: Shoe covers for faster feet

Aero overshoes may be the ultimate marginal gain. While donning overshoes usually means a cold or wet ride, or both, aero overshoes are designed to make you faster.

Even the best cycling shoes are festooned with features that disrupt airflow: buckles, dials, vents. In contrast, aero overshoes present a streamlined profile to the wind, as well as a smooth transition to your legs. Most of the aero overshoes here are claimed to be wind-tunnel-tested, although in most cases the power savings aren’t stated.

As with aero cycling socks, aero overshoes usually incorporate ribbed or other profiles designed to promote turbulence at the boundary layer and so speed up the airflow over your legs. Although they’re usually less insulated than cycling overshoes designed to keep your feet drier and warmer, aero overshoes can in some cases double up on weather protection too.

Aero overshoes normally stop mid-calf to conform to regulations. As with cycling socks, they’re another item that the UCI regulates in competition under its rules.

Read on for our selection of the best aero overshoes for faster feet when cycling.

Cyclist’s pick of the best aero overshoes

  1. Alé Whizzy: RRP €35.95
  2. Assos RSR Speed Booties: RRP £75
  3. Castelli Fast Feet 2 TT: RRP £55
  4. Ekoï Racing Pro Aerodynamic: RRP £55.47
  5. GripGrab RaceAero TT 2: RRP €58
  6. Le Col Overshoes II: RRP £55
  7. Nopinz Hypersonic: RRP £69.99/£79.99
  8. Rapha Pro Team TT Aero: RRP £65
  9. Spatz Windsock2: RRP £44.99
  10. Velotoze Aero: RRP £54.90

Why trust Cyclist’s advice?

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At Cyclist, we’re dedicated to bringing you the best cycling coverage, be it racing, equipment or great places to ride. With aero tech a huge part of modern road cycling, we regularly review the best aero bikesaero helmets and other aero cycling kit, so aero shoe covers are a natural extension of the aero obsession.

We’re not paid for our product selections or for placement, so you can rely on Cyclist for unbiased advice.

Best aero shoe covers 2025

Alé Whizzy

€35.95 | View offer

The Alé Whizzy shoe covers offer protection for your feet thanks to the polyurethane shoe portion, paired with a ribbed fabric on the 26cm height leg section. Based on its wind-tunnel testing, Alé claims this will make you more aero. The Whizzy shoe covers are available in three sizes and either black or fluo yellow. There’s an insulated, PU coated version for winter rides available as well.

Assos RSR Speed Booties

£75 | View offer

You can go faster whatever the season with Assos’s Speed Booties, which are offered in summer, spring/fall and winter variants. All have the same ribbed upper section, just with more insulation and waterproofing in the off-season options than in the summer one. Pro and wind-tunnel-proven, the RSR Speed Booties S11 add extra ankle grips as well as a UCI-legal length.

Castelli Fast Feet 2 TT

£55 | View offer

The Fast Feet II shoe covers are another product with a smooth foot portion married to a grooved sock, backed up by wind-tunnel testing. The shoe’s fabric is silicone coated, which Castelli claims helps to keep airflow smooth. Castelli sells the Fast Feet II in five sizes and you can choose either black or the considerably pricier white option with Soudal-QuickStep pro team logos.

Ekoï Racing Pro Aerodynamic

£55.47 | View offer

Ekoï’s Italian made aero shoe covers are sported by the Israel-Premier Tech pro team, which is claimed to have wind-tunnel-tested them, although the results aren’t shown on Ekoï’s site. There’s a polyurethane foot section paired with a smooth front fabric to the leg section, aimed at reducing drag, and a dimpled fabric at the rear.

They come in five sizes and in Israel-Premier Tech navy blue, giving you the pro look. As usual with Ekoï products, you can often find a steep discount to the RRP.

GripGrab RaceAero TT 2

€58 | View offer

GripGrab makes its aero shoe covers in three sizes, as well as four colours. It suggests that they’re good for special occasions, although it doesn’t specify the aero advantage on offer. It also sells the lower priced RaceAero 2 shoe covers in the same range of colours, which it says are lightweight and high stretch, so that one size fits all.

Le Col Overshoes II

£55 | View offer

Le Col reckons that its overshoes do double duty, offering an aero advantage as well as shielding your feet from rain and cold. It claims it has wind-tunnel-tested the overshoes, which are available in six sizes and black only.

Nopinz Hypersonic

£79.99 | View offer

Nopinz makes its Hypersonic overshoes in UCI reg length, but if you’re not scared of the UCI, these knee-length Long variants are claimed to save you up to 20 watts over cotton socks. That’s if your time trialling speed is over 55kmh, but even at a more manageable 40kmh, Nopinz claims a 12-watt saving. If you want to stay within the UCI rulebook, the equivalent shorter version has a claimed 10-watt/14-watt saving at the two speeds. They come in three colours as well as five sizes and are made of PU-coated Lycra fabric.

Rapha Pro Team TT Aero

£65 | View offer

Rapha’s overshoes mix a grid mesh underlayer with a thin outer layer made of weather resistant stretch fabric. Rapha reckons that as part of its full time-trial kit, along with gloves and aerosuit, you can save 12.4 watts at 55kmh over its last generation time-trial suit. The Pro Team Aero overshoes are available in either black or white, with XS/S or M/L sizes.

Spatz Windsock2

£44.99 | View offer

Spatz’s aero oversocks are worn by Mathieu van der Poel and the Alpecin-Deceuninck team. They’re waterproof with a striated leg fabric that Spatz claims doesn’t crease as you pedal, as well as being UCI legal. They are sold in white or black and in three sizes. Spatz offers other designs too, including the Fasta and Fasta Lite and Hi and Lo versions of its Aquasokz.

Velotoze Aero

£54.90 | View offer

Velotoze pairs its stretchy synthetic rubber foot section with a ribbed leg section and claims that its patented aero shoe covers will save you seven watts at 45kmh, based on its wind-tunnel testing. The stretch means that there’s no zip needed to get the covers on. It offers four sizes and either all-white or white/black colour options.

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