First Look: crankbrothers full shoe range

crankbrothers have been working on a range of shoes for four years, and almost no one guessed. They’ve even been posting photos and videos of pros riding them for the past year, and this past season, there have been pro racers sat around in pits wearing them with no branding except for a question mark. Now they’re ready to unveil them to the rest of us.

Fabio Wibmer, Luca Shaw, Rach Walker, Anka Martin, Cedric Gracia, Bernard Kerr, Angel Suarez, and Iago Garay are among the pros who’ve been riding and racing in these for a while.

With fifteen different shoes in the lineup, at first it looks a little bewildering, but the range breaks down to very logical options, named the Mallet, the Mallet-E and the Stamp. Each of those is divided up further by their retention systems, which are BOA, speed laces, or standard laces. BOA and speed lace editions also get a hook and loop retention strap that locks the shoe down in front of your ankle.
The Stamp range are all flat pedal shoes, and both varieties of Mallet are clip-in shoes. There are features common to all of the shoes that I’ll take you through first, then each type specifically, but also, crankbrothers have shared plenty of details of the design process and reasoning that we’ll take a look at too...

Read the full feature on these shoes here
https://singletrackworld.com/2020/12/...