Specialized’s Recon ADV is their second lace-up iteration in the recon range and has seen a significant redesign over the S-Works lace-up model. The first lace-up Recon took Specialized’s off-road racing shoe and simply added laces, the result was a savagely stiff shoe that felt at odds with the casual laces and required walkability that would be expected from a more casual adventure shoe, on top of that the laces didn’t offer the security to properly leverage the shoe’s full performance ether.
Specialized went back to the drawing board, redesigning the Recon ADV to give them much more of an adventure focus. The result is a gravel bike shoe that's softer, more forgiving, and easier to live with when the rides are about being on the bike for a long time, rather than a fast time.
