No issues with forefoot lockdown, and just the right amount of space in the toe box. But they’re comfortable, and sometimes that’s all you need from a daily trainer. I don’t even think they’re that fancy in fact, I’m pretty sure they’re dead-ass cheap in terms of production costs. It just feels great.įinally, finally, Skechers is making some decent uppers. It doesn’t feel soft, but it doesn’t feel firm. It’s the perfect balance of comfort and responsiveness. It’s weird that nobody can replicate it, but it’s true. I’ve said this in other reviews, but the Hyper Burst Ice midsole is Skechers best one yet, and they’re still better than everyone else at producing a nitrogen-infused, supercritical midsole. While low arch people may have some issues with the hump under the foot on the medial side, I kind of liked it. The HyperArc rocker kind of hits midfoot and rolls forward, which is a little weird feeling, but kind of fun. The ride is different from the 5, but it’s still pretty lovely. It’s a Cadillac riding on dubs with a feather roach clip hanging from the rear view mirror. Much more stack, much more weight, much more comfort. This is not the Maxroad 5, it’s a totally different shoe. While those concerns weren’t totally alleviated on the run, they turned out to be less obvious as the miles went by. Usually I don’t weigh a shoe until after I run in it, but I was already influenced. ROBBE: I knew this shoe was way heavier before I even received it. What we like about the Skechers GoRun Maxroad 6 All pop culture references aside, the big question for me is whether I would struggle with the Max Road 6 as much as I did with the Ride 11. The Max Road 6 is the Super Shredder after he guzzled down the last vial of ooze. To put the two shoes into context using one of my favorite childhood movies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze, the Ride 11 is the Shredder you get for the majority of the movie. In fact, I think the upper is even the same engineered mesh material. The Max Road 6, just like the Ride 11, features a HyperBurst Ice midsole, a carbon-infused forefoot plate, HyperArc technology, an ArchFit insole, and a Goodyear rubber outsole. Being the curious soul I am, I even took out a tape measure to measure the widths of the base, and even those were the same. The Max Road 6 takes the stack to the max at 41mm/35mm (6mm drop), whereas the Ride 11 sits at 38mm/32mm. Both on paper and in hand, these shoes appeared to be virtually identical in all regards other than stack height. Needless to say, that made me a bit nervous to jump back into another Skechers shoe, the GoRun Max Road 6. One of my most recent reviews was the Skechers GoRun Ride 11, the first shoe I’ve reviewed that didn’t work for me and my mechanics. We’ll get into that more, but Skechers definitely has some good stuff going in 2023, and at first glance, this one seems to elevate the performance run line even more.Īs always, with all Skechers reviews, I must advise the reader to live their preconceptions at the door– ignore the ‘S’ and have faith in the tech.ĬHAD: Well, this review is like deja vu all over again. Trust me, it does, but it’s almost a different shoe. Now with a World Athletics rule-breaking 41 mm midsole stack, a much, much more comfortable upper, and a big increase in weight, the shoe is really trying to live up to its name. And evolve it did, transforming from a “max” shoe to a “mad max” shoe. So when we saw what was coming in the Maxroad 6, I was obviously excited to see how the shoe evolved.
It was like a superball-infused rocking chair tattooed with Pac-Man pills, and as weird as that sounds, trust me– it’s a compliment. Okay, so I didn’t really love the upper on that one (it was a bit saggy and baggy), but the ride was a thing of beauty. ROBBE: If I had actual fans, they would know that one of my favorite shoes of all time is the Skechers Maxroad 5, and definitely the most underrated shoe of all-time.
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