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[Action]

Choice Magazine have just published a running shoe review. All the shoes reviewed are listed here. Please vote for the shoes you run in - multiple votes OK - note the OTHER option at the bottom.

[Jogger]

More comments on this topic here.

ps thanks Action, we haven't had a poll for a while!

[TRAVY]

aca Has some info on one of their shows coming up this week. I think it will be crap.! Different shoes suit different people regardless of price,! ;)

[runrtom]

Need to start the poll again with different options as you currently have "other" at 74%!

[vat]

I think that was kind of Action's point.

[Jogger]

Plodder - I think that was the point - we used the same options as per the chhoice magazine article, knowing that if they used a real runner, they would have picked shoes that runners wore !

[vat]

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Originally posted by KevinTiller:
Plodder - I think that was the point - we used the same options as per the chhoice magazine article, knowing that if they used a real runner, they would have picked shoes that runners wore !

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[/indent]Snap!

[laotze]

Three different Mizuni models and only one Asic. Was there some push polling going on here? tut tut Choice.

[roodrunner]

I was surprised not to see the old DUNLOP VOLLEYS listed ,LOL

[rabbit]

hahaha - I'd love to put on a pair of those, white stubbies, bonds singlet and handband to boot and run around the botanic gardens at lunchtime - people would think you ran right out of the 1960's.

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Originally posted by roodrunner:
I was surprised not to see the old DUNLOP VOLLEYS listed ,LOL

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[/indent]Don't laugh - while Johhny Dark and I were waiting (and this was pretty close to the front of the A starters) for the City 2 Surf last year, we spied a fellow wearing a pair of these - and they were stuffed. I hate to think what 14k in those would do to your feet...

[rabbit]

Better still!

As a testament to what generations of runners before us wore not only will I do the Gold Coast Marathon in the retro outfit described above, I'll do it sub 2hr50min - just to prove that at the end of the day that gel and air cushioning, coolmax clothing and the like (all of which I own) is just a gimmick to get us to part with more of our hard earned.

[Tuttle]

Dunlop Volleys? They're for wimps. My vote would still go to the (crazy!) bloke wearing thongs in the Melbourne Marathon. Whaddya reckon, Rabbit?

[downunder runner]

I did the 2000 Melbourne marathon and remember a guy not only running in thongs BUT wearing a full business suit too !! Thankfully, I was able to pass him....

[Tuttle]

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Originally posted by awiseman:
Three different Mizuni models and only one Asic. Was there some push polling going on here? tut tut Choice.

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[/indent]Or, perhaps, ASICS realized how deeply flawed the whole exercise was going to be, and decided against "wasting" too many shoes.

[Obi-Wan]

What ever happened to KT26's are they still around?? They were the shoe of choice when I was a kid!!

[Tuttle]

I think they're still available in K-Mart, Big W, etc. Probably at the same price......

[tim]

yep they are on special at the moment for around $25.


tim

[wannabeagreyhound]

The legend of kt26 does not seem to wanna die,A 20 y/o family member of mine and his mates wear them proudly at uni with Starsky & Hutch t-shirts and matching Lee cordory jeans, FANTASTIC bring back the 70's. :e
TRAIN HARD, DONT EAT PROCESSED FOODS

[Tuttle]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by wannabeagreyhound:
[QB] bring back the 70's.

I didn't realize the 70s ever went away!

When I bought my first pair of KT26s I though they were the greatest running shoes I'd ever owned - which they probably were, up to that point.

KT 26s @ 25 dollars hey? 7 pairs of KTs, or 1 pair of Kayanos?

[Rich H]

Well, if I don't say it, someone else will ...

Tuttle, where do you manage to buy Kayanos for $3.50?!

[silver fox]

Ah yes, the much maligned 'KT26'. For those not in the know, the 'KT26' was a hybrid of the 'KT' series, so named after the initials of its designer/developer.

Another little known fact is the name of the shoe was shortened to 'KT' in 1976 after the big hitters in the marketing department at Dunlop deemed that the 'Kevin Tiller 14' just wasnt doing it for the punters after dismal sales, despite a hirsuit Deek wearing them in all his glory winning thats years c2s.

Suffice to say a wounded Tiller vowed never to enter into the design fray again, instead concentrating all his energy into a new phenomenon, the personal computer.

And that my friends, is how cool running was born! ;)

Now, off to Apres we go!

(No disrespect Kevin, I couldnt help myself!)

[Phantom Strider, retired]

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Well, if I don't say it, someone else will ...

Tuttle, where do you manage to buy Kayanos for $3.50?!

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[/indent]Perhaps we should start a thread about 'Falling Down while Posting' :)

[NoSeven]

When I was at school if you weren't wearing KT26s you were simply not 'in' (and, as kids are, beaten up). Those were the days when shoe purchase was entirely on 'grip'. And KT26s have the best grip.

[wannabeagreyhound]

For those of you who listen to triple j would have heard kt26's prominent role in the song sneeker sex, (Gotta get me another pair) KMART here I come.

[Action]

Rich H
I can supply a pair of Kayano's for $3.50. 1 owner, just run in, only 1,000 careful kilometre's on the clock... like new! :D