These are some nice winter road (3 bolt cleat) shoes.
Nice and warm in the 30’s / wet 40s, but a little too small for me (I am between a 12.5 and 13 in US shoe sizing, and a 46.5-47.5 in most bike shoes). Length was fine, toe box was a little cramped.
I wore them a few times, didn’t mess them up too badly.
Were they a good deal? Winter three bolt shoes used to be perpetually discounted around here. Maybe the distributors finally sorted out supply and demand.
If it were consistently cold enough to need these shoes all winter, I would have probably bought a winter pedal and shoe setup. As it is, I just did a ride in summer shoes with toe covers (in the middle of january! not a great sign global warming wise!), and I’m not swapping pedals based on weather forecast.