Nike Falling Out of Favor

You think $260 is pricing ambitious HS runners out? Parents are spending 100x that amount per year to get junior that college scholarship. $260 = nothin’

Please tell me what Tracksmith sells that has ANY visual appeal? It's all trash to me.

Don't buy it then, I could care less lol

Nike still has a big hold on things like fashion shoes (air force 1's, jordans), pro athletes (most big time athletes in basketball and football are Nike guys) In running their competition shoes are still the tops (go to a high schoo track meet most are wearing either dragonflys or rivals). Where Nike has lost is the daily trainers. For a while the Pegasus, Vomero, and Structure could hold their own, but when the mega foam hit Nike just sat there. The invincible never really grabbed hold the way a Nike shoe typically does.

Only poor people buy Nike apparel.

I much prefer a pair of District Vision shorts for $110 to pair with my $130 Soar running shirt, my $60 Satisy bandana and $45 Bandit running hat.

Seriously though , who the f is paying these prices for this stuff? I'd love to meet them and just laugh at them.

A $60 bandana?

$45 for a running hat that says Bandit? You can buy that same hat unbranded for $7 on Amazon.

Hmm. I had exactly that thought about you.

Nike stock was worth 174$ 2 years ago. Today its worth $71.

Nike is just a bad partner for smaller businesses and they haven't put any thought into daily trainers in years. It doesn't matter that they have the best competition shoes (I don't think they do). That's a very small piece of what brands make. The market for supershoes is so small it's not even worth mentioning. We don't even stock the VF or Alpha and we haven't missed it at all. Why would I as a small business spend the energy and resources it takes to be forced to take on more Nike styles (Vomero, Infinity etc) that are gonna sit there and not sell just so I can future out racing shoes that barely make any money? It makes zero sense. I'd rather use that space to bring in shoes from other brands that people like and will actually move. So what if I have access to VF? How many units will realistically sell? Not anywhere near enough to make it worthwhile. The brand as a whole in this industry is extremely disappointing. Running brought Nike up to the giant that it is and they just take a dump on the people that got them there. Wear whatever makes you race at your best but I wouldn't buy any trainers from them or support them with my dollars in any meaningful way, there are much better brands out there and certainly better products.

here is my opinion about nike

1) trainer shoes - they are very good when you first try them on in the store and they are also good in your first few hundred miles, but they do not last. the nike air zoom pegasus 38? that i had was good until the "air" ran out of integrity and the shoe became flat and just a feet protector. the nike zoom oddssey 2? also was the fastest dying shoe that i ever had. around 12-15 years ago was the boom of the nike free where they talked about how this shoe made your feet and legs stronger and that this was the natural form of running. this lead to many people getting injured and lawsuits calling out nike on their BS and the fact that there was no study that indicated any performance uplift after wearing these shoes. overall, nike trainer shoes are mid. overall, i'll give them a C+ or B-

2) racing flats - okay. this is where nike is/was innovative and was about to push out some good performance. the biggest boom in the running world in possibly decades was the release of the nike vaporfly. that thing was a huge setup compared to anything any company released beforehand. one of the greatest things about this shoe was that it was even easier on your feet, which is why despite people hating on it and calling it the "cheaterfly", the health benefits of the shoe was ultimately a positive thing. nike spikes were definitely above average. i wouldn't say that they were the best because despite world records and the lightweightness, the adidas, brooks, and new balance counterparts was ultimately on par and the fact is that many of the top runners only ran in nikes because of sponsor reasons. with that said, nike did push things to the edge with the dragonfly which did set many records. the air zoom victory was ultimately a fail as a middle distance shoe, but i do recognize that jakob's recent 3:26.xx was ran with the air zoom victory 2. it appears that the victories are back.

3) clothes - i don't have much of an opinion about them, but they were mostly positive for me.

with all of that said, nike will bounce back up. it's true that hoka has caught up in the trainer shoe department and ON is possibly gonna crush them in the racing department, but nike was often the first to really invent/innovate things that push athletes to the edge as i have said in the racing flat department.

Shoes are still a staple in most peoples wardrobe but I think brands like vuori, ten thousand, lululemon or fabletics have taken over the clothing. Go to a gym and you rarely see people in Nike clothes. At first i struggled to not wear Nike clothes but now I wear almost all Vuori or Ten Thousand

And that is precisely why nike should be terrified. Lululemon has already introduced shoes. Whatever, lulu does, vuori copies. The next thing you know, they will develop a legit racing shoe and spike.

It’s this, but none of the woke idiots want to hear it. I wore Nike products for 15 years, but since they put a sports bra on a MAN and tried to erase women I am DONE. Boycott!

NIKE HATES WOMEN

I won't buy Nike shoes or apparel because it's a company that actively supports doped up athletes, and it's been going on for decades. Throw in Salazar, and it gets worse.

simply put, Nike makes most of its revenue from shoes other than quality running shoes so they stopped caring about their roots and focused on mass appeal shoes.

They got lucky a few years ago with the first super shoes as they could ask a huge profit margin but the large margins caused them to loose focus on the designs of daily training shoes. Now, everyone has a competitive super shoe so the huge margins will slowly disappear.

Bill Bowerman should be rolling over in his grave as Knight has lost sight of rule no 11.

Started wearing Nikes in 1973. Favorite racing shoe was the Air Mariah. I was good with successive versions of the Pegasus…until one version (I think it was the 33 or 34.) Pebax foam felt great early on then turned hard as a rock, upper material deformed with ripples and something dug into the side of my foot. Previously I could run in almost any shoe. It’s back to Adidas for me.

You’re welcome if you listened to me.