Leatt launched a shoe range to the world this week, expanding their range further beyond the neck braces they became synonymous with.
Pete sat down for a chat with Leatt’s Scott Macfarlane to take about how their shoe range came into being.
What are the key elements that you started with for the shoe range?
Leatt have had their eye on this market for some time. For us it was the next logical “step” (sorry…). We as engineers looked at the offerings in the market and with most of the team riding all disciplines of MTB we thought we could offer something that looked at the biomechanical and technical aspect of the foot to pedal connection better than what we saw.
We wanted to look at what works, listened to our pro athletes, independent testers, our own internal experiences and monitored a lot of forums to see what the customer wants from a shoe, rather than produce another “me too” product that blindly follows without understanding why.
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