How do you clean your shoes

Spray with hose, quick brush off, onto the boot dryer. Embrace the patina. 

Scrub clean with a toilet brush and hot water, quick towel to suck out most of the water, onto the boot dryer. Occasionally in a mesh bag and into the washer, not even noticeable if they’re contained. 

Boot dryer might be my most used/useful purchase in the last five years!

I rinse them with hose on jet, spray the outside with MucOff bike soap, scrub with a brush, rinse, then dry on my ski boot dryer.  If they're really funky you can run them in the washing machine but it's really noisy.

I wash them while I wash my bike, but never spray them with the hose. Takes forever to dry. I also wear them while I am washing them, helps keep the integrity of the shoe last longer 

cleaning? shoes? dirt dries out, dirt falls off. why make your life difficult?

Pee on them and call it good?  But seriously, hose wash, use a horse hair brush on them once or twice in the lifetime of each shoe if they are so egregiously dirty I feel ashamed.  Put onto boot dryer (ideal) or in the direction of a fan to dry.  

It never even occurred to me to wash or that people wash their shoes. I wear them and toss them in the back seat on the floor. If they are muddy they go inn the back of the truck until they dry then I bang the mud off and back to the back seat. 

I clean my shoes because I don't like sticking my feet into something that smells like a bog.  I also wash my knee pads and gloves for the same reason.  But to each their own.

I've also noticed that for flat pedal shoes, soaping & scrubbing the soles once or twice a year helps revitalize the rubber a bit.  It's not going to fix the pin craters, but they do feel grippier to me after all the embedded sand is scrubbed clean.

Living in the PNW my shoes would get caked in mud. The main problem was just that they would get really stiff. I just let them dry out, then use a stiff brush to get the mud off the fabric and laces, and they would be good to go.

Since they were generally already soaked through, sometimes I did just hit them with the hose to get most of the mud off. They would still need the brush though. I used to keep a garden sprayer in my car to spray off my bike, and often used it to clean the heavy mud off my shorts, jersey, and shoes before throwing them in the back of the car.

I spray mine out with Lysol to cut down on the odds of a microbial community rising up and declaring independence, and I'll very occasionally wipe the dust off with a wet rag and some Simple Green. I don't live where mud is usually a problem. 

Any hints for removing tree sap from the fabric?

Stay away from trees 😀

If you can let the shoes dry out. Then smack them until all the loose dirt comes off. Then brush them with a stiff dry brush. Trying not too get them wet again with a damp cloth over the outside so they look new again. 

In soviet russia, trees don't stay away from you.

i wash my protection too, but shoes? i usually wear socks when i ride them, protector go straight on the skin. 

I use the same brush and dishsoap while washing my bike