David Millar on designing a commuter cycling shoe
“I’ve rediscovered my love of cycling”: David Millar and James Carnes of CHPT3 on appealing to every cyclist and designing a commuter shoe you can wear with a suit… and down a Swiss mountain
The shoe’s multipurpose approach stems from a broader desire to bust out of the niches the cycling industry often finds itself in, says CHPT3’s David Millar and James Carnes. “And that’s given a whole new impetus to what we want to do, which is to start to change people’s perception of all types of cycling.
“It’s exciting. Of course you get people saying it’s sacrilegious and you’re totally ruining cycling, but cycling is such an amazing thing… And for me, it’s all in. I could be riding a road bike, a Brompton, a mountain bike, or riding to work,” the American says. After coming to his “wit’s end” with the current urban commuter shoes on the market – including one particular popular urban shoe that gave him blisters just walking about at the Tour – Millar sent every pair of cycling shoes he owned to James, who promptly took them all apart to see what worked and what, frankly, didn’t.
Which leads us to the most important questions: Do they look cool? Are they suitable for cycling and walking about the office and town? How do they fare on a downhill mountain biking route in the Swiss Alps, or in the most inhospitable of British town centres? And most importantly, can you wear them with a suit?
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