Introduction to the Salomon DRX Defy Grvl
TAYLOR: I’ll apologize proper off the bat for bringing biking into the dialog — , the factor we do solely when somebody tells us we’d like a break from operating. However hey, perhaps a few of you’ve a greater relationship with the opposite endurance sport than I do, so that you don’t thoughts the comparability. Anyway, my level in bringing it up is that this… why the heck do we’d like a gravel-specific shoe?
It’s an necessary query, however one which lands in considerably of a hostile setting. Primarily, there are three camps: Those that will go to their grave saying a street shoe is all you want, those that will suggest any path shoe below the solar earlier than choosing up a street shoe, and people, like gravel cyclists, who form of agree with each, but additionally with neither — form of like agnostics.
The place do I fall? Properly, as a dude who lives on gravel roads, it’s laborious to say. Each day, I have to run someplace between 0.75 and a couple of.5 miles to get to a trailhead or a paved street, so it’s secure to say I run loads of gravel. And but, I don’t at all times do it in the identical sneakers — some days it’s a street shoe, others it’s a trail-ready crusher. On the finish of the day, if I’m completely tromping on crushed rock, I would like a bit some a few of every. So, in a day and age once we can select the expertise we wish, perhaps a gravel shoe does make sense.
