adidas trainers
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Proper Tidy
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The best trainers ever made.
Certainly up there. Quality shoe.
Proper Tidy
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Can't work out if I like these or not. Is it a trainer trying too hard to be a boot?
N_igma
Epistemic nuisance
Yep. I think they should stick to what they're good at.
Proper Tidy
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I think you are right
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Ah, PT is right. Adidas trainers currently in the S☼I ottoman of glory:
Bobsleigh
Laduma
Chile 62
Response (for actual running)
My Sambas wore out.
Bobsleigh
Laduma
Chile 62
Response (for actual running)
My Sambas wore out.
Proper Tidy
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Fap fap fap
Steel Icarus
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The Bobsleigh are fucking ace looking. But due to the plastic soles, the slightest bit of moisture on the ground and you may as well be on ice.
Oh.
Oh.
Proper Tidy
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How have the chile 62's been? I had some suede ones when they first re-issued them and they got fucked in about 3 months, the leather ones a bit more durable?
Steel Icarus
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They certainly are. I mean, even with as many pairs of other trainers as I've got - some old Pumas, some Snoop baseball-shoe-type things, and a pair of these I've just gone through
and the fact that the last two winters I've worn my Docs a lot - there's still hardly a mark on the 62s. Think I've had them over 3 years now. The ONLY thing I don't like about them is the narrow sole - it's quite easy to cockle over on your ankle if you're not careful.
Fedayn
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Can't work out if I like these or not. Is it a trainer trying too hard to be a boot?
A poor substitute for the Adidas Korsika frankly.
Proper Tidy
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Now that is a fucking shoe. You won't get them for love nor money though. Well, maybe if you are prepared to spunk a few hundred on dead stock anyway.
Steel Icarus
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PT, you know of any Adidas "museum" type websites? Would love to know what the running shoes were called that I had in the mid-80s where you put different pegs into the heel to supposedly alter the sole according to what surface you were running on.
Steel Icarus
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Wantwantwantwantwant
Grand Slam? Tennis shoe obviously but they were the original 'peg' soles I think
Steel Icarus
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Mebbe, but I seem to remember these being explicitly for running on different surfaces. Red, white and blue pegs iirc. Dark blue shoes.
Proper Tidy
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Kegler Supers! LA's and Grand Slams also have the pegs though.
This website seems okay, I don't really use any myself though.
Fedayn
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Fedayn
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Proper Tidy
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Lush. They still serviceable? If I had a time machine I would go back to the 1980s and just buy loads of trainers. All downhill when they moved from European factories to SE Asian sweatshops.
Proper Tidy
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Pure fucking trainer porn
Steel Icarus
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Fedayn
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Nah, knackered, but I still like them. Had a pair of Forest Hills, Grand Slam and Kick aswell.
Steel Icarus
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Proper Tidy
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You do like a black trainer don't you SI?
Weirdly, on the re-issues of Keglers and LA's, the pegs don't seem to come out, or if they do they are really fucking tight.
Weirdly, on the re-issues of Keglers and LA's, the pegs don't seem to come out, or if they do they are really fucking tight.
Steel Icarus
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It may look like that. But atm I've got navy & burgundy of other trainers, & in the past I've had green Campus (2 pairs), blue, burgundy & green Gazelles, and even a pair of ZX-something-or-others in the mid-80s.
Mind, I've also got a pair of these I've been "rocking" for the last few days:
Steel Icarus
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I had a pair of bright blue Hi-Tec spikes as a kid, too.
Proper Tidy
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I'm a sucker for white trainers. I always want to go for the coloured trainers, blues and reds and whatnot, but with trusty old white they go with anything. I have some blue ZX racers and blue sambas and a pair of red gazelles (barely worn them) but everything else is white.
I will soon own those brown ZX800s I posted earlier, although whether I will actually wear them is a different matter. £20 though, can always stick them on eBay if I don't.
I will soon own those brown ZX800s I posted earlier, although whether I will actually wear them is a different matter. £20 though, can always stick them on eBay if I don't.
Steel Icarus
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I want a pair of Beckenbauers in the brown, cos I've got a Beckenbauer trackie top in the same colours. Might feel a bit of a twat, matching like that, but still. I won't really get the shoes, anyway, so it's a moot point.
I had another pair of Adidas when I was a kid. Nagged my folks for a good pair of trainers, wore them down, and when I finally turned up at school in them the teenage fashionistas deemed them "out" despite me being able to claim without lying they cost "firty" quid.
So now I'm on an internet mission to see what they were. All I remember is there was some light blue, they were more a running shoe than a Gazelle or Trim Trabb, and there was mesh involved.
I had another pair of Adidas when I was a kid. Nagged my folks for a good pair of trainers, wore them down, and when I finally turned up at school in them the teenage fashionistas deemed them "out" despite me being able to claim without lying they cost "firty" quid.
So now I'm on an internet mission to see what they were. All I remember is there was some light blue, they were more a running shoe than a Gazelle or Trim Trabb, and there was mesh involved.
I always got Kick when I was a kid.
I remember the fella in the shop saying "why are you still buying kick?" and trying to get me to have Samba/Mamba/Bamba which were of course more expensive.
