Five Ten made its name with rock climbing shoes. Wouldn't you know it, it turns out that the soft, sticky rubber that climbers depend upon to scurry up vertical walls also adheres to flat mountain bike pedals pretty dang well.
Five Ten Freerider Contact features
- Innovative Contact outsole with Stealth Mi6 rubber
- Lightest Freerider model
- Added toe cap protection
- Abrasion resistant textile and synthetic upper
- Stiff, compression-molded EVA midsole
- Low-profile, performance fit
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Sticky, but within reason
A quick way to judge a rubber's softness, or stickiness, is to push your thumbnail into the rubber. The deeper it goes, and the longer the impression takes to return to its original form, the softer and/or stickier it is. Doing the thumbnail test on the Freerider Contacts highlights that the Mi6 soles will be pretty much glued to most flat pedals.
Off the bike, hiking was just fine until it got wet and muddy where the lack of tread made traction real slippery, real quick. But outside of any wet conditions, bike-pushing action was actually very good. That's because the soles do have a bit of give, especially around the toes, which nicely pairs up with where the tread starts again.
Made for rowdy trail riding
Five Ten Freerider Contact verdict
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