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Asics Gel Lyte 3 Mujer
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You’re probably familiar with the modern-day sole design that belonging to the Tubular range. It appeared on the Y-3 Qasa in early 2013, before appearing in the adidas mainline just over a year later. A discovery deep within the adidas archive had motivated adidas Originals’ VP of global design Nic Galway to revive the Tubular name, as well as the ambitious design ideals that kicked off the project almost three decades earlier.
The concept behind the design was born from the ongoing quest for superior cushioning that could give athletes that little extra kick that might Adidas NMD Womens shave a fraction of a second from their best times. In 1990, adidas designers began creating Nike Air Max 97 Femme prototypes inspired by car tyres that featured inflatable rubber air bags with valves. They were cobbled together using parts from the Equipment series, with a Torsionbar and some industrial looking connectors. At the time, the fledgling line was called adidas Radical and it required an external pump attachment to inflate the sole unit.
In less than two years, the prototypes evolved into incredibly complex pieces of engineering – then in ’92 adidas took the unusual step of releasing a beta version of the Radical to the public. It was the only model of Radical to ever be made available and was limited to 500 pairs – it seems as though adidas were testing the waters to see how the public would react. The futuristic concept was also known as Nike Air Max 270 Womens the X-29 and had four separate air chambers on the sole that could be adjusted using an Nike Air Presto Dames integrated pump – they even had a digital LCD pressure gauge. It was an era of over-the-top tech, but even by today’s standards it’s impressive. The midsole was made from high-performance Pebax plastics, while the air chambers were made from poured rubber.
Those first 500 were recieved well, and just a year later the Tubular line launched, utilising all of the tech the Radical prototypes had pioneered. The Tubular 2 came with an external pump that could be attached to a valve on the side of the shoe. It was offered as the lightweight option, without the inbuilt mechanics, but only had two adjustable air bags in the heel and a forefoot that was cushioned with EVA foam. On the bulkier side of things the Tubular 4 had an integrated pump on the Vans Checkerboard Slip On Womens side and four separate air chambers, clearly based off the beta version of the previous Adidas ZX Flux Damen Schwarz year.
Only one more model in the range would release during the 90s, a cross trainer called the Tubular 2 XTR, which also featured an external pump. After that, the technical beast was relegated to a shelf in the archive. Designers worked on one more prototype, an advanced version of the Tubular 4, but were forced to concede to the fact that the technology they needed to manufacture the shoe didn’t exist yet. In essence, they were thinking too far ahead, the Tube was the future but the collective mindset was yet to catch up.
Before long, all except for a few crusty old sneakerheads had forgot the tyre-inspired shoe. But all was not lost, two decades after its disappearance designer Nic Galway was wandering the archives at Three Stripe central when Asics Gel Lyte 3 Mujer he happened upon the OG Radical. He’d been dreaming of ways to use the brand’s heritage Nike Free RN Mujer to take customers on a new journey and the old runners were just the thing. It wasn’t so much the technical features that got him thinking, but more the concept that the designers had been working with – the prototypes and the thought processes they illustrated.
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