Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
I don't understand how they are a gravel shoe. I want to call it shallow marketing, but hopefully I'm missing something that makes these better on gravel than any of the dozens of similar priced mtb shoes to choose from.
Originally Posted by
Marcus_Ti
Well....they're not really proper MTB, as they don't have toe-spike lugs. They're not road-racing as they don't have 3-bolt cleats, and they have proper treads, they're not "touring" as they're not walkable much with the carbon sole. They're really best suited to, well, light-offroading AKA gravel.
I'm rapidly becoming less surprised with each new product that is midway between "road" and "MTB" being introduced and marketed as "gravel." That "gravel" stuff generally meets the needs of most cyclists better than the previous extremes keeps me from being more cynical about the marketing.
