Why Doesn’t Nike Let You By Their Elite Singlets

Why would you want to?

To me they seem to be the best. They have a great look, good construction, good materials. It just seems odd that they go out of their way to get the best athletes to advertise the products to customers and then don’t sell the product. It would be like Chevy advertising a Corvette and then not letting you buy one.

Why don't you buy an adidas elite singlet then. sheesh

Train harder, run faster, and they'll give you s bunch.

Because it is way more effort to pump some few low-selling pieces through the sales channels that just equip a bunch of runners at a meet.

Do you also wonder why you can't buy inflatable RadBull arches?

How insecure are you to dress yourself up with "elite clothes"? You also buy expensive watches?

The singlet is not the product they're trying to sell. Most of their customers aren't interested in singlets...at all. Only a small percentage of running consumers ever wear a singlet; most of those are high school or college athletes who don't have to buy them. The problem is, a singlet is a race-specific piece of apparel, and most people are hobbyjoggers, not serious racers. Among people who DO want to buy singlets, not that many are willing to pay a lot extra to have "the best" when "pretty good" is virtually identical and considerably cheaper. It's a very niche market. Nike would rather sell widely-appealing products like shoes, t-shirts, jackets, pants, etc., and it seems that they do a very good job of selling those things.

Dang harsh comments. I just thought it was kind of odd. Looks like I'll have to run faster and get sponsored. I'm just glad I decided against bragging about my expensive watch on here or about my recent purchase of an inflatable RedBull arch...Thanks for the last comment though. That's very true and makes a lot of sense

It is an effort to save you from yourself. Runners are generally the least likely people needing to be showing off their arms.

NOP has sold its singlets... in fact I own one.

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NOP has sold its singlets... in fact I own one.

Just confirming this. I have two of them. The black with white NOP logo and white with blue NOP logo.

But generally speaking, I agree, and it just goes back to very poor marketing of the athletes.

Cycling is much better about this. You can buy the jersey from every ProTour team if you want, though it'll be a fortune. You can buy the WC jersey. You can often by NC jerseys. The one I'm most "proud" of is a Postal Service Jersey. I always figured someday it would be a minor collectible thanks to Lance.

Yea, it would be nice if they applied that cycling mentality to the running world. I know not many people agree, but I think it would be pretty neat to a least have the option to get the singlets pros wear without having to search eBay and get a used XL one.

i guarantee that you did NOT get the seamless singlet that has, in numerous variations, been in production for about 8-10yrs now. just look on ebay if you really want one, it will cost you between 75-100 bucks.

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The one I'm most "proud" of is a Postal Service Jersey. I always figured someday it would be a minor collectible thanks to Lance.

How'd that work out for ya?