Flying Eagle Drift Carbon 2.0 Owners review
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Review of my new Flying Eagle Drift Carbon 2.0 that have only just come out. Not sponsored by any skate company or shop, I am not a professional reviewer just someone that owns skates and wanted to share my opinions on them to help skaters out there make their own decisions when purchasing new skates.
UPDATE: although these are an excellent skate, great to look at and very well built; I will be selling them as they are my least used skate. They have no padding in them at all which makes them very stiff and responsive like a speed skate but you feel every bump in the city and an urban setting. I'm also afraid to jump on them because the carbon fibre base will not absorb any impact at all. I find myself always choosing the RB110 over these for urban duties thanks to the shock absorber in the heel so it's time for these to go. If freestyle was predominantly your thing I'd say these are perfect.
Hi, nice review! How did you find the fit? Are they consistent with other skates you have? Anything strange about the fit? I've heard different things like they are not good for wide feet but then I heard that they have a fairly wide toe box.
They are wide and so are the Veloce. I have read that their plastic model boots like the F5 and F6 are narrow which makes sense as they have a liner and probably less room inside but for me these are wide all the way from back to the front. The Drift tapers more at the toe box than the Veloce does but I have wide toes and am a 47 in length but go 48 to accommodate my wide toes and am fine.
So if you have super wide toes go the Veloce 2 over the Drift 2 but you lose the ability to have a short frame. So if slalom and general Street skating is your thing get the Drift, if marathons or downhill are your thing get the Veloce 2
And yes consistent with standard Sports shoes, runners, Seba, Rollerblade etc. So far I've been a 48 in all those brands too
@@ofpplayer thanks for the detailed reply! This really helps.
Could you help me with sizing? Im a size 40.5 (26CM; 260MM length with a 10cm width) - the FE chart says for drift recommends the size 41 at 259mm max foot, but im not sure how the sizing fit feels in addition to break in with the FE and if I should size down or up with that in consideration. This would also be my first Carbon Fibre Skates, so I would definitely need some advice with the stiffness i wont be too use to.. Could you share some advice :)? tahnks !
They don't shrink or break in as such as the material is quite firm. Again with these I've always been a 48 because of my wide toes but only ever a 47 in actual length. If you are used to FR or Rollerblade or any other brand that uses a plastic boot and lots of thick padding then at first these will feel very hard and you'll feel cracks in the pavement etc. My first pair of these I didn't like it for that reason. It made it a very fast skate for distance and speed, very controllable for slalom if you do that but for regular street and city riding I hated feeling all the bumps in the pavement. A year later I've had plenty of time on speed skates so now these feel fine. I did order another pair one size too big intentionally so I could put a 2-3mm thick inner sole in it to smooth out the bumps and use it as a city/street skate.
If you only skate on smooth surfaces you won't notice the stiffness or hardness as far as feeling bumps goes but they will feel more supportive, stiff and inflexible at first if that makes sense but then you'll appreciate it later in terms of control. These will feel totally different to Sebas though, they have the stiffness if they are carbon but far softer internal padding and contoured padding inside too
Hi Van Nguyen, did you buy drifts? I'm asking, because my feet are almost exactly like yours - 258 lengh, 100 width. I was considering seba highlight or trix, because they are considered wide, but FE drift are carbon fibre, so they can be heat molded in case there is a pressure point somewhere.
@@ivanilarionov1893 I ended up getting seba high light plastic, but i unfortunately didnt like them as much cause of their wide heel and tight toebox. The toebox gets pretty painful at first. But people have good reviews of it. I just didnt get use to it cause of the ankle lift issues. Still finding solutions to remedy it. Came back here cause I was thinking about the Drift again.
@@altruex I received my Trix 2 yesterday, but they did not fit well. I have pressure points under navicular bones and the toebox is narrow for my right foot - I have pressure point on the outside base of fifth toe. So it seems that the only option left is FE drift. According to the reviews they are not wider than the sebas, but are heat moldable, so some of the issues maybe can be solved. But I don't know to what extend and in which in which parts can be molded. And also don't know how they compare in size to trix2/highlight. It seems their size is smaller than the given number.
Have you seen the previous version of FE drift? Do you know if there are major differences in material/performance/durability?
PIPE 86 I've never seen one in the flesh, only pictures. I think from memory they are not a carbon fibre skate and not heat moldable. I'd have to do some research to confirm though. If you can find some good pictures of the two I think the quality would be similar but materials different, mainly the carbon fibre and the main boot seems to be more of a leather material. I'd have to do more research to confirm that though
ofpplayer it is carbon fiber and also has leather...that is why I was asking...I’m debating between the drift 1 or the hardcore Evo 2.0
PIPE 86 then other than the type of leather used and the external finish on that leather I'm not actually sure what difference if any there is between the Drift and Drift 2 other than one being newer than the other. What I can tell you about mine having now skated on them for a while is they are very stiff and hard. They do wrap around your feet but don't have a lot of cushioning. I'll be looking at trying to put an inner sole of some sort in them soon to make them easier to skate on for long periods.
@@ofpplayer thanks for your review about flying eagle, really great and detailed. I wanted to order mine in size EU49, UK 14. I am concern about your statement about being stiff, hard and no cushion. I have developed tendonitis from using hard boot but was able to work around that by heat molding the plastic of my present hard boot. (?) would you say the carbon fibre could be heat molded (?) Does it fit better after a long term use
@@terryking811 it definitely can be heat molded and I've done so several times easily both with an oven or with a heat gun.
I'm a 48 but just bought a 49 so I could put an inner sole in it. Having said that this is an old review now and when I started using these I'd come off plastic boots with plastic shock absorber layers in the heel so my comments about that were using that comparison. Having since adjusted to using speed skates now these are a dream in comparison and I don't feel like they are too hard any more.
I've also found an inner sole that works if you need it which are the Bont extra thin ones you can buy. At the time I bought these they only made up to 48 which was my size so I couldn't ever get the right inner sole without making them too small. I now have two pairs, one in 48 which I use and don't feel they are too hard and a size 49 with inner sole for jumping, stair riding etc