Cielo X1 2 ($275)
The Cielo is an excellent max stack top carbon plated coach/racer.
Stack Top: 48mm heel /41mm forefoot
Weighed Samp:s males’s 8.04 oz of /228g US 10
It sees a big 38g drop in weight from v1`based mostly on our weighing of the present pattern.
The supercritical, twin density PEBA midsole foam stays the identical.
The midfoot hole strikes from the lateral to the medial aspect to assist with transitions.
The higher will get lighter (Jacquard mesh)
Releases February 2025
Cielo X 1 (1) RTR Evaluation
Clifton 10 ($150)
tenth Anniversary for the OG uptempo “max” cushion coach but at heights far decrease than what is taken into account max immediately. We see massive adjustments to a traditional to “sustain with the occasions” and reposition it within the Hoka line up. Hoka says: “Mild and plush for daily miles. A trusted coach for each day upkeep miles”, We’ll see the way it seems!
It will get a brand new final with a roomier toe field in a extra plush Jacquard mesh higher. It has 3mm extra stack top on the heel to 42/34 and now has a 8mm drop, the upper than 5mm drop a primary for Hoka that we are able to recall. The midsole stays gentle compression molded EVA.
The upper drop ought to enhance its slower paces efficiency and distinguish it from the Mach which is now the extra uptempo non plated each day coach within the Hoka line up.
We weighed a males’s US10 pattern at 10.19 oz / 289g so about 9.7 ozin a US9 so we do achieve some weight over the 9 due, largely to the upper heel.
Bondi 9 ($170)
The Bondi is Hoka’s conventional max cushion, simpler paces and strolling shoe. It will get a supercritical EVA foam midsole for the ninth version with 2mm extra stack top.
The higher strikes to a structured knit,
The stack top is 43/38 whereas the US10 weighed pattern was 11.3 oz / 320g so its weight stays about the identical as beforehand as even with extra stack top its supercritical foam will make it lighter than the earlier EVA based mostly midsole. Releases June 15
Mafate X ($225)
The Mafate X might be regarded as the path model of the Skyward X sharing supercritical PEBA foam midsoles and carbon plates, right here an H formed plate and comparable stack heights.
It has an enormous 49 mm heel / 41 mm forefoot stack top together with its Vibram Megagrip outsole Weighing 13 oz / 368 g within the US 11 pattern we weighed a US 9 ought to test in slightly below 11 oz. Consider this one as the final word lengthy distance cush cruiser for trails with, we count on ,some full of life kick from the carbon plate and foams.
Mafate 5 ($185)
The Mafate 5 loses the “pace” a part of its identify and provides extra cushion. The higher is a warp knit with a TPU cage, reflective particulars, and gaiter attachments. The midsole options Hoka’s Rocker Integrity Know-how and a brand new dual-density midsole with a supercritical high layer.
The Vibram outsole has 5mm lugs with Traction lugs. For stack top, the ladies’s is 43mm/35mm and the lads’s is 45mm/37mm.
In particular person, the shoe doesn’t look or really feel as large or heavy because the stack specs point out. Weight: 10.08oz/285g for girls and 11.72oz/332g for males.
Scheduled for a Fall 2025 launch.
Challenger 8 ($150)
Renee: The Challenger 8 is a Fall 2025 launch, and we didn’t get a preview of the shoe on the Hoka sales space throughout The Working Occasion (though I believe the shoe was on show).
The 2 main adjustments to the Challenger are extra foam underfoot and an improved match. The ladies’s stack is 39mm/32mm, males’s is 42mm/34mm. The stack heights are elevated and correspond to these of the Clifton 10, together with sharing new increased 7- 8mm drops.
Labeled as a “gravel-grinding” workhorse, the Challenger is one in every of many 2025 sneakers focusing on gravel particular working. I discovered the earlier model higher on trails than gravel, so I stay up for testing model 8.
The higher is an engineered mesh with the midsole a compression molded EVA as earlier than.
The orientation of the multi-directional 4mm lugs is reimagined for what Hoka calls “greatest all-terrain journey but.” The shoe shall be obtainable in broad sizes.
Notes:
RTR was not previewed all 2025 fashions at TRE and a few updates will happen later in 2025 and weren’t displayed,2025 Hoka stack heights at the moment are “full” together with outsole and sockliner whereas earlier than they have been midsole solely.
