Product and today we’ve got some 510 shoes. We’ve got four different styles of shoe to take a look at today, whoa and the best part of all this. You can win these shoes and we’ve got three pairs of each style of shoe to give away that’s 12 pairs of shoes. So let’s take a look at the first pair and these are the kestrel lace: let’s get them out of the box, so the casual lace, our Clippers pedal shoes, you see, that’s where the cleat goes in the bottom, and these shoes have got a massive interface there.

So you’ve got loads of adjustment. You can see where that slows forwards back and that really helps when you’re trying to set up your shoe with the pedal interface to try and get the pedal just about touching the not sort of interview too much with solar shoes, you can play around move, cleats back and forth loads of adjustment. We’ve got the red and black Kestrel lace. They’re high-performance they’re, versatile they’ve, got a really flexible upper, but a really stiff, sole, so they’re, designed to transfer that power really efficiently through the pedals got this evie a midsole and this stealth c4 sole on the bottom.

So you’ve got a grip on the pedals when you’re, not unclipped and just around the edges. If you’re running those bigger, enduro or Dino style pedals, as the name suggests, they’re lace-up you’ve also got. This velcro lay strap at the top to make sure they’re, nice and snug on your foot flat extra efficient peddling, the Kestrel lace weighs in at 463 grams, but not only that we’ve got the women’s version as well. The Kestrel lace, women’s in black and purple cool thing about these, just like the men’s they’ve got this or perforated toe area and the tongue.

So they’re, nice and breathable got a non-slip heel. Cups, you’re soft heel sits right in there doesn’t move around when you’re peddling got that sleek low-profile design. The Kestrel lays have got this polyurethane synthetic covered upper and just look at the colors on the ladies version, nice. So what three pairs of those to give away as well? What we’ve got next! This is the free rider EPS hi check these out. These are flat pedal shoes. – got that big stealth c1 sole 510 a famous for- and this is a really great winter.

Autumns shoe- is Primaloft insulation in Saito, nice and warm and I crawl, lice, really well. Seal toes can be virtually waterproof. This shoe so see that logo there stealth rubber back in 2001, the Australian downhill, racers Chris Guevara can Nathan Rennie got this stealth saw putting their shoes on the hold-down whole world changed. Since then, everyone wants a soul, is so grippy on flat pedals. So what else makes this 5 turn free, rider, hi, EPS, so good? Well, it’s that insulation I said they’re weatherproof.

The high-top is even better flat as well. It just stops all that puddles and everything getting into the top your shoes quite so easily and they’re super warm inside here you’ve got a fully gusseted tongue to prevent water and mud, get it in there. Let’s take a look, so you see this flexible wing on the side of the time. Once they’re tied up nice and tight, that’s going to make these a brilliant flat pedal shoe for winter inside the shoe you’ve got some additional foam insulation in the sock liner and a really cool feature.

You’ve got this heat reflective foot board in the bottom, see that shiny silver there lining that keeps all the warmth inside your boots. So that’s the free rider EPS hi. What is the last style of shoe? We’ve got now. This is the access and it’s another pair of flat pedal shoes, but they’re slightly more than that. These are also great for hiking and scrambling they’ve got that stealth s1 sole, just like the free rider. So you’ve got this really big wide sole, that’s perfect! For riding on your pedals and on the back you see these heel lugs they sort of extra why’s a really stable when you’re scrambling around in the woods they’ve got this perforated nubuck leather upper.

It’s really lightweight shoe got this reinforced toe cap at the front. Some pretty cool orange bright laces also got some spare gray ones in there. So it’s a great all-round shoe not too for riding bikes, but for people with a really active lifestyle. 366 grams per shoe, there’s four different styles of shoes to clipless two flats: we’ve got the Kestrel lace, cash-flow lace, women’s free rider, EPS and access, and we’ve got three pairs of each to give away as 12 pairs of shoes. Just follow the link in the description down below for your chance to win them for more videos.

You can click up there for our latest clips versus flats feature and click just up there for high set up your clipless paddle shoes. Click here to subscribe and give us a thumbs up. If you like, free shoes, might be shoes.

The actual review I want to give it a back story about how I ended up with the five tens I started, riding in 2015 when I started, riding I had no idea about mountain biking like nothing. I didn’t know that they were different. So the categories within mountain biking. You know, and you wrote down hill across country. You know trail I had no idea. I just thought man in my canoe and you had a man bike, and that was it. Some would argue that still the case. So when I ain’t got my first mountain bike at 2015, it was a everything.

Was a 300 or 400 euro sports department store bike, I went out and bought the cheapest pair of shamanic. Lip was pedals because that’s what you do right, you know, and man breaking his clipless and I went from there and joined a local cross country club two or three months later. I realized that I was really bored doing. Basically, fire track roads with maybe 50 meters, 100 years of crappy trail, so I went online and started looking for trails around Madrid and I stumbled across track. Mtb you’ll know Jorge and I’ll go to a lesser extent of Jorge’s in virtually every single one of my videos.

They were on a guiding company and I went out with them. I was on my first full suspension. Bike I was on my first drop, my first sort of enduro technical trail and I came to realize. I just didn’t have the skills to be able to wear clipless, pedals and I thought. Ok, you got to take a step back. I know, there’s a little bit more to this now and go take a step back and I’m gonna buy some flat shoes. There are a lot of choices, but basically the majority of people or a great number of people ride 510.

So what did I do? I went online and I chose the five ten free riders. Now you can see that these are in a bit of a state and I’ll. Tell you why this is a long long, long term review I bought these at the end of 2015 October 2015 from chain-reaction I think they cost me like 89 euros. In fact, I know they cost maybe 9 euros because I checked yesterday, why did I choose the 5 tens because they had a name that I knew I could at least count on to get going. The price wasn’t too bad for what they are and I just said.

What the hell? Let’s let’s go with this? So how do you dictate? What is a long term review? Well, some people say you know we need a month to try our product two months, six months, 12 months, these shoes have approximately 12 000 kilometers on them. This is this is a proper test, 12 000, kilometers and they’re still going just okay. So let’s look at what’s good about these shoes and what’s bad about these shoes, bad now, I bought these for 89 euros. I think that’s pretty much a solid buy biking, shoes you’re, expensive, yes, regardless worthy by clipless flats.

If you go anything over a sort of entry-level shoe, then the price this will skip up to sort of a hundred and over 100. So these were 90 euros. I think the price was pretty good on this, but they are generally more expensive than your average trainer, which a lot of people tend to use when they’re starting off on flat pedals. So if you’re going from a sports trainer, that could be a potential downside but again look how long they’ve lasted another downside to these shoes, and this isn’t only my own experience.

I’ve spoken to I have a friend who’s, also experienced this once you’ve been wearing them for a few hours, even though they are very wide on the outside. If you’ve been wearing them for a good long ride, they actually start to pinch on the side of your small toe and it can actually become quite uncomfortable until you actually get off and walk around. You do have to be wearing them for quite some time. So if you’re right on something so about fit right and these for me and for the friendly spoke to it happened, maybe it won’t happen for you.

Maybe we’ve just got the cooler feet, but that was another downside for me just to add one more just so that it’s not all positive, positive positive, and this is a negative and a positive. At the same time, the soles on the five tens on the five ten freeriders in this particular case are so sticky that once you’ve got your foot into position, you are you’re. Gonna have to lift your foot off the entire pedal to move. Now, that’s always a good thing, you’re on flat pillars. You want your feet to stay secure, but at the same time, if you need to move your feet, then that can be an issue.

So that’s that’s a good end and bad ok. So, let’s move on to the good points over 10000 kilometers, nearly 12, 000 I believe they’ve been everywhere with me all over Spain, every kind of terrain, like I, said: I bought these October 2015. This is September 2019, that’s nearly four years where what I will say now is obviously four years I mean you can’t ask for more. You shouldn’t expect more. The souls have actually started to go through now. In several places on both shoes and the grip is actually it’s- it’s it’s pretty much gone there.

My foot is sliding off the pedal and coming off a lot. Now, it’s it’s a it’s time to fall care for a new pair, but when these souls are fully intact, the grip on here is just unbelievable. Like I said you can take that as a good or a bad I personally. Take that as a good I, don’t want my feet moving around when you’re on technical, descents and boy do they stick to those pedals. So another good point is the build quality once again, 12 000 kilometers on them for years riding, and there is not one stitch that has come apart.

The sole and the shoe is still completely together. Yeah I’m, not hiding this one here. This is more difficult to hold to all. The stitches are intact. Still the original laces the tongue is still intact. The build quality is phenomenal. You know for those 90 years, I paid in chain-reaction I cannot complain. That is one solid, solid shoe and on a similar on a similar vein, these are actually very comfortable to walk around and when you’re, not on the bike, you could almost I mean if they weren’t quite so heavy.

You could almost use them as a as an everyday shoe. They are incredibly comfortable to walk around in and that’s a huge plus when you’re on flat shoes, I actually have a pair of boots as well. Five 10 boots- and there are a lot more protective around. Obviously the ankle and and the toe one thing I will say for the free riders is, they do have quite a lot of flex on them, which can be a good thing, which can be a bad thing, but I will say there is very, very little protection on the end. I have caught my feet between a rock and a hard place literally several times, and there is no protection that I mean you get into a bad situation.

You’re gonna break your toes. That’s something is definitely to take into consideration with those with with this. With regards to the aesthetics, well, five tens a some of the better-looking shoes there, perhaps not the sexiest things on the planet. They are pretty big, they are pretty wide. They are pretty heavy and pretty chunky. You know it’s personal taste, whether you like to look at these or not I, personally, don’t think they’re too bad, but then again, I’m not looking at my feet when I’m riding down the side of a mountain.

So that’s up to you now. I know that 510 is one of the most popular brands for flat pedals. There are several others out there as well. I haven’t tried in the other side. Don’t have a point of comparison. I just went straight to five tens, my other flats, the boots of five ten as well. These are pretty much ready for the bin. Now so I’m gonna be in the market for buying some new ones. Now the easy choice will be to go to five ten again because they’ve been great but I always like to experiment.

I, always like to try new things. So I would ask you if your a flat rider, if you’re not riding five tens and you’ve really ridden any other brands. What can I be looking at and you know, I don’t want to break the bank. I want someone who’s gonna last I want something. That’s gonna have at least the same amount of grip as five tens and that’s a lot to ask and if they could be a bit lighter, maybe even a bit more waterproof. If you do live in sort of wetter climates like the UK, these could be a nightmare because they are very thick.

They could take a long time to dry in Spain. There’s, not an issue you ride one day. If it does rain, it gets wet by the next, but the next day, it’s perfectly dry but yeah. So if you’ve got any suggestions about what I can go to next I definitely became to hear those in the comments other than that. The five ten free riders I mean they don’t make them exactly the same as it’s now long long long long term with you but I couldn’t recommend them highly enough. I mean these. Have been absolutely solid, solid pair of flat riding shoes if you are in the market or even if you’re looking to buy your first pair of flats, definitely go check online.

There are always deals, especially on these older models. A great pair of shoes can’t recommend them enough if you’ve enjoyed this review, give it a thumbs up like and I hope you that subscribe button. I see you next time, I Stella proxy back.