Vaporfly 4% such a good shoe even New Balance sponsored athletes use them

I don't blame them. Since when was the last time new balance made a good racing flat for the marathon.

When your competitors are using PEDs or gaining advantage by trampoline shoes then you have got to keep up with the Joneses.

Lance Armstrong's fellow riders can understand.

Desi did the same thing with her Brooks at Boston, blacked them all out.

Strange though. He has lots of other pics with Nike shoes so is he actually NB sponsored?

bazap wrote:

Strange though. He has lots of other pics with Nike shoes so is he actually NB sponsored?

He isnt the athlete (s) in question, just found or took the photos and posted on IG.

lkj wrote:

Desi did the same thing with her Brooks at Boston, blacked them all out.

Wrong. That was a proto shoe from Brooks at the time.

She even posted the actual shoe. Same idea as nike with a thicker midsole and new foam.

But that New Balance athlete is obviously wearing Nike sole +midsole with a 1400 upper on top.

bazap wrote:

Strange though. He has lots of other pics with Nike shoes so is he actually NB sponsored?

I don't think Cuan is a athlete, just a commentator/journalist.

Can Nike sue for another company putting their logo over their shoe?

Correct, the guy posting the photos is NOT who we are discussing. He simply posted some pics of shoes from the event. The main guy in question is Koen Naert from Belgium who won the European Championships marathon in what appear to be NB 1400 v6 uppers on a VF4% midsole. It would appear that Koen Naert used to be a Nike sponsored athlete and may have recently switched to NB. That might explain why he had access to VF4% midsoles that had no markings on them, and simply had them sole-swapped with his new sponsor's racing uppers. That does appear to be the case here. Kinda sad for NB.

Cmon People wrote:

Correct, the guy posting the photos is NOT who we are discussing. He simply posted some pics of shoes from the event. The main guy in question is Koen Naert from Belgium who won the European Championships marathon in what appear to be NB 1400 v6 uppers on a VF4% midsole. It would appear that Koen Naert used to be a Nike sponsored athlete and may have recently switched to NB. That might explain why he had access to VF4% midsoles that had no markings on them, and simply had them sole-swapped with his new sponsor's racing uppers. That does appear to be the case here. Kinda sad for NB.

No worries, New Balance still has a strong hold on the dad shoes market, which is significantly bigger than the the competitive running market.

NERunner053 wrote:

Can Nike sue for another company putting their logo over their shoe?

is this a real question? did you read any of the thread?

That Desi shoe is totally photo-shopped.

She used 4%

Cmon People wrote:

Correct, the guy posting the photos is NOT who we are discussing. He simply posted some pics of shoes from the event. The main guy in question is Koen Naert from Belgium who won the European Championships marathon in what appear to be NB 1400 v6 uppers on a VF4% midsole. It would appear that Koen Naert used to be a Nike sponsored athlete and may have recently switched to NB. That might explain why he had access to VF4% midsoles that had no markings on them, and simply had them sole-swapped with his new sponsor's racing uppers. That does appear to be the case here. Kinda sad for NB.

I don’t think he had special access to the 4%, he ran the NYC marathon last November in all new balance.

alk wrote:

That Desi shoe is totally photo-shopped.

She used 4%

You are wrong... The 4% users all had issues with the volume water and faded...

alk wrote:

That Desi shoe is totally photo-shopped.

She used 4%

You've no support for this, because it is a lie.

alk wrote:

That Desi shoe is totally photo-shopped.

She used 4%

the whole world is photo-shopped. nothing is real. all is fake. it's all lies lies lies. we are in the matrix.

All I see is a 4% upper painted to look like a NB shoe. I don't see a NB upper anywhere.

what i find interesting is that nike would choose to use 4% as their supposed gain....as its pretty close to the supposed gain you get from EPO

why not 3%? or 5% nope they chose to call them 4%.....is this to help mask the effects of EPO?

takeanotherlook wrote:

All I see is a 4% upper painted to look like a NB shoe. I don't see a NB upper anywhere.

There are two pictures.... one of the guy who came 6th who painted the shoe to make it look like a New Balance and the other the winner who put a Vaporfly 4% midsole onto his New Balance upper