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Fox Racing has entered the footwear marketplace for the primary time, at this time releasing the Fox Union Clipless and Flat Pedal Mountain Bike Footwear. Athletes Greg Minnaar, Laurie Greenland, Jackson Goldstone, Nina Hoffmann and Steve Peat have all offered suggestions on numerous iterations of those sneakers all through what has been a two-year improvement course of.
There are three choices to select from; the $249.95 USD Union BOA, the $179.95 Union, and the $149.95 Union Flat. Right here’s an summary of the vary.
Fox Racing Union Mountain Bike Footwear
All three fashions of the Fox Union mountain bike sneakers share a one-piece welded higher building, with a bolstered toe field to guard towards rock strikes and a few perforations aft thereof to permit the wearer’s toes to breathe. A glass-filled nylon shank stiffens the mid-sole to what Jackson Goldstone reckons affords “the right stiffness and help”.
The outsole is made up of Fox’s proprietary Ultratac rubber compound, organized into hexagonal lugs with chamfered edges. These are mentioned to grip the pins of flat pedals to ship management, whereas the broader hexagonal lugs positioned towards the heel are mentioned to be higher suited to hike-a-bike sections when you actually need to have the ability to dig into the terrain beneath foot. The precise formulation of the rubber differs between the flat pedal and clipless choices, however Fox aren’t capable of share any extra detailed info than that.
The Union and Union BOA Clipless choices share the identical cleat field, with a visible power-control information to assist riders discover the perfect cleat place, and to copy that place between every shoe within the pair; it affords scope for 33mm of adjustment. Each clipless fashions will embrace two pairs of arch top inserts to customise match for the totally different clipless pedals in the marketplace.
Pricing & Availability
Every mannequin of the Fox Union MTB Footwear might be out there in 4 totally different colours – Black, Gray, Mocha, and Pink – and makes use of unisex sizing with a spread from 37-47 EU (5.5-13 US Males’s / 6.5-14.5 US Girls’s). Half sizes might be supplied from 41-46.
- Union Flat – $149.95 – Measurement 43.5 weighs a claimed 407g
- Union – $179.95 – Measurement 43.5 weighs a claimed 474g
- Union BOA – $249.95 – Measurement 43.5 weighs a claimed 435g
