“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” goes the old adage. The Cham W 2.0 97 makes this point even if you stand it on its head, since it seems to replicate the make-up of the men’s Cham 2.0 97 yet it was the women’s first-generation Cham that served as the model for Cham 2.0, not the other way round.

If you unraveled the opening paragraph, you know Cham 2.0, with its Paulownia core and metal-free metabolism, is the stepchild of Cham 1.0’s women’s models.  Nature wouldn’t have followed this course if the Cham W 97 weren’t already a hit with the misses, so the upgrade to the more gradual rocker line of series 2.0 should only add to this model’s mystique. “Much more smooth than the current 97 HM,” confirmed Galena Gleason of Telluride’s The Boot Doctors, referencing the 2015 model without the 2.0 baseline.