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Runners with "air bubbles"

  • 29-01-2014 11:15PM
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 36


    They peaked in popularity in the mid 90's. You don't see them anymore.

    Did you wear runners with air bubbles?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    They peaked in popularity in the mid 90's. You don't see them anymore.

    Did you wear runners with air bubbles?

    Like Nike Airmax which are still selling like hot cakes 20 years later


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    It was all about the runners with the lights in the 90's.

    I'd love to wear a pair now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭lucky333


    They still sell them. The most comfortable runners I ever had... Was funny when the bubble burst, could hear it squishing when walking in the rain :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Friend of mine used to always boast about the cushioning effect on Nike Air's.... and the 100 quid plus price tag! :rolleyes:

    Think I had a fake air bubble runner at some stage, hard perspex type bubbles in the side with absolutely no cushioning in them. Ah, teenage peer pressure!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Gel is where it's at.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea


    nike air max have to be in the top ten highest selling runners of all time :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭moss.ie


    retro trainers/re-issues are big business these days


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Agricola wrote: »
    Friend of mine used to always boast about the cushioning effect on Nike Air's.... and the 100 quid plus price tag! :rolleyes:

    There still 100 quid ,

    An original pair from the 90's have to be considered valuable antiques at this stage


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 36 Liger vs Tigon


    Gatling wrote: »
    Like Nike Airmax which are still selling like hot cakes 20 years later

    Selling like hotcakes?? Hardly, most nike runners sold don't have air bubbles.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Gatling wrote: »
    Like Nike Airmax which are still selling like hot cakes 20 years later

    Why is it that many things sell like hot cakes at one time or another, yet hot cakes have never sold like hot cakes ever?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Why is it that many things sell like hot cakes at one time or another, yet hot cakes have never sold like hot cakes ever?

    I wouldn't know about hot cakes


    I'm a pancake guy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭theteal


    They peaked in popularity in the mid 90's. You don't see them anymore.

    venture into our country's fine capital and survey the walking dead, that's the biggest air max demographic in the country


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,923 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,669 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I still get jealous of runners that light up when in "walk mode"

    God damn work place dress etiquette


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Yes, really a room temperature cake, or maybe even a chilled cake is preferable. A cake which has been heated doesnt sound good at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭SamAK


    I wore them for ages, all kinds of Nikes (Except Shox, which I consider bloody awful looking).

    Since I tried DC skate shoes, i've never looked back. Have had the same pair for the last three years....they need replacing now but I never had a pair of Nike's last that long.|

    I think 'undesirable' characters (scumbags with their tracksuits tucked into their socks, otherwise knows as sh1t-stoppers) have tarnished the rep of Nike a wee bit....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    I remember as a young skateboarding impressionable teenage owning a pair of these: http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1283/844255197_e066e33730.jpg

    What the hell was I thinking.

    The whole bottom of them was air though and they were super comfy.

    Osiris D3's.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Had a few pairs of Kangaroos, they have some flashy ones these days. Aside from that, good auld St. Bernards done the job. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,296 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    Anyone remember the ones you had to pump up, i think they were la gear and the pump was on the tongue, jesus they were the yolks to be seen in back in the day:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Air Max 95, the coolest knacker runner ever made. Most comfortable runner ever too.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    I had a pair of runners with a polly pocket in the air bubbles.

    I left them in a bag in the coat room in school and some little bitch cut them open and stole polly pocket.

    If I ever find out who that was ill brain them!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Diadora was and is where it's at.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭Miss Mayhem



    My uncle used to be a garda. I remember him telling me a story about him and another garda arresting a bloke wearing these one night. The eejit ran down a pitch dark alley way and hid there. He actually thought the garda couldn't see him and he was going to get away with it but my uncle knew exactly where he was because of his shoes lighting up every time he took a step. The gob****e couldn't believe it when my uncle pulled him out of the bins he was hiding behind and asked my uncle how they found him. Fecking idiot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,101 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    I was never allowed have a pair as a kid due to the price so now that I earn all my own dough I have a lovely pair of Air Max 97s. Comfy as fook.
    You don't see them anymore.

    Very much incorrect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    Anyone remember the ones you had to pump up, i think they were la gear and the pump was on the tongue, jesus they were the yolks to be seen in back in the day:cool:
    Nah they were reebok.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    Nah they were reebok.
    Imo, Air Max Classics are the nicest looking and most comfortable trainers ever made. I don't care if they're associates with knackers, they look better than other trainers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,304 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    They peaked in popularity in the mid 90's. You don't see them anymore.

    Did you wear runners with air bubbles?
    Selling like hotcakes?? Hardly, most nike runners sold don't have air bubbles.

    You are talking nonsense.

    They are still very popular and nike sell loads of runners that have air bubbles, Air Max 95s, Air Max 90s, Air Max 1s, Air Max BW etc etc are still sold everywhere.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭jank


    I think they are a bitt naff now and over done. You can still see some nice subtle Nike Air Max in places, I have a good pair and look after them. Would not dream in doing actual sports in them as they would be terrible for your feet,back,knees offer no support at all.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Was always an Air Jordan fan over anything else ,
    In saying that got seriously fed up with nike's sizing normally wear a 9.5 but started to find they got very narrow in the last few years moved a full size and still got massive blisters ,


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