Sure, it seems largely like a easy colorway collaboration, however the brand new MAAP x QUOC Gran Tourer XC collab truly utterly transforms the look & really feel of those standard gravel bike sneakers. If you happen to don’t imagine me, simply scroll down and have a look at the pair of Quocs I’ve been using lately.
The distinctive MAAP styling results in a considerably revised higher and new safety design. And it leads to a very completely different look – plus truthfully, extra performance-looking vibes – to an already high-performing pair of carbon-soled gravel & cross-country sneakers.
And QUOC says that is solely the primary restricted version collaboration with MAAP. So, we anticipate to see extra reimaginings of their sneakers going ahead…
MAAP x QUOC Gran Tourer XC gravel shoe collaboration
QUOC calls the restricted version MAAP Gran Tourer XC a “recent interpretation” of their high efficiency off-road sneakers, letting the Australian biking attire model’s design aesthetic reimagine QUOC’s technical sneakers. The brand new look was ostensibly created to align with the MAAP Fog colorway of their newest Alt_Road attire vary.
At first look, I assumed it was only a particular version shade. However actually, it’s a reasonably main higher redesign, whereas preserving the core Gran Tourer XC particulars.
“Collaborating with MAAP has been a gratifying and rewarding course of. Way more than creating a brand new colourway—it was about innovating, iterating and delivering one thing really particular that resonates with our shared audiences. The complementary design and values of each manufacturers are mirrored in each element, and what in the end comes throughout is our shared ardour for pushing the boundaries of biking.”
– Quoc Pham, QUOC founder and designer
So what’s new?
Let’s begin with what carries over. The brand new gravel shoe collab begins with the identical core powerful artificial microfiber higher, conventional symmetric tongue design, 2x wire retention dials, and the identical stiff carbon composite sole.
MAAP’s (Motion Artwork Different Paths) model first shakes that sole up by co-molding their rubber tread lugs from a barely translucent TPU materials that lets a number of the colours present by way of.
An all-new higher
The MAAP x QUOC higher can also be utterly completely different than the usual Gran Tourer XC. Right here you get a microfiber with a grid texture molded into its floor, and solely that includes air flow openings on the highest of the toe, contained in the instep, and on the tongue. These vent perforations cowl a lot much less space than the usual QUOC shoe, however are a lot larger holes.
The tongue can also be now product of a unique light-weight TPU materials with small vertical ribs meant to mould to the rider’s foot, and once more larger diameter air flow perforations revealing a mesh backing.
New particulars from heel to toe!
The MAAP sneakers additionally add a brand new accent shade webbing pull tab on the heel.
There’s additionally an all-new safety design. From the beginning, QUOC’s Gran Tourer sneakers have featured a full 360° wrap-around TPU safety layer that prevented scrapes (largely) but in addition helped maintain water out. MAAP’s design pares that safety again to simply the better heel and toe areas (realistically, the place it’s most wanted), and creates a very completely different look within the course of.
MAAP x QUOC Gran Tourer XC gravel shoe – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new MAAP x QUOC Gran Tourer XC gravel sneakers are available in simply this one Fog shade, and in complete EU sizes 38-47. You’ll be able to decide them up both from QUOC or MAAP on-line or at their respective retailers for $330, 295€, or $480 Australian dollarydoos.
And so they have a claimed weight of 327g (per shoe, dimension 42), precisely the identical QUOC now states for his or her normal Gran Tourer XC, too
Extra new 2025 QUOC colours, coming quickly. Shhh!
Along with the brand new MAAP-edition sneakers, QUOC is including a number of extra new seems to their gravel line-up coming very quickly, prepared for spring. Eagle-eyed readers might have seen these identical Gran Tourer XCs within the new Cannondale Topstone story in a colorway that’s sort of the alternative low-key look that we noticed on the lace-ups we examined final 12 months.
QOUC has been teasing new season updates on social media that land on Wednesday. So, maintain your eyes peeled for these gravel sneakers and some extra very quickly.
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