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Adidas Terrex Agravic SL Initial Review with Comparisons to Agravic 4, Agravic TT, and SL EVO ATR
Jun 3, 2026
In the video, Sam shares his initial review of the Agravic SL, an everyday all around trail runner and hiker with an all Lightstrike Pro foam midsole, small midfoot plastic shank and same stack height as the other SL's but with a robust Continental rubber outsole and debris proof solid upper.
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Today we're going to take a look at the
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Agrave SL out now. Uh it's Adidas's All
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Light Strike Probased
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um trail runner and a variant of the
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very popular SL Evo, but it is
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definitely a trail shoe. We've taken
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them on a trail run in Park City on
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mostly gravel and for a solid hike up to
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Steuart Falls below Mount Tempenas in
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Utah. Okay, let's talk about this uh
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Agravik SL. And uh it fits in with the
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SL kind of naming even though it's a
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full-blown trail shoe because it shares
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the same 39 mm heel, 33 mm 4-foot stack
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height and it has a full light strike
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pro midsole as the other variants do.
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Um, it it also shares the little uh
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plastic mid-foot shank which is right
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about in here. Uh, which I found kind of
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problematic in the road version, but
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much less so here. Of course, it's a
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trail shoe. So, it has a robust, really
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robust um, Continental outsole,
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Continental rubber outsole with 3 and
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1/2 to 4 mm lugs. You can see the four
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here and the three further forward.
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Almost full coverage. And so that full
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coverage outsole uh gives it kind of a a
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a more stable feel. Um mitigates a
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little bit the springiness of the uh
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midfoot uh plastic shank. Uh but we
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still have a um as with the other uh
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SLS, Evo Evo SLS, we have a nice we have
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some flexibility here up front which
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makes them nice for climbing and nice
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for tow off. Um another thing that's uh
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a little bit different from the others
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and very appropriate here is the
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platform width because um we have the 85
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mm uh platform at the at the heel. We
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have a somewhat wider than any of the
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other really aggrav um 80 mm uh midfoot
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and they all share 115
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mm forefoot. So this nice forefoot and
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the flexibility and the energy of the
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light strike pro foam which I think is a
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bit denser than the road versions gives
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you a really nice feeling of kind of
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this big scoop off the front um moving
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you right along. In terms of the upper,
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it's a densely woven mesh. You can see
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here the support is provided by the mesh
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and the the branding, the logos, which
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are the three stripes and the TX you can
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see are quite thick. Um the fit is
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absolutely true to size and much
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improved I think over the TT um and the
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Aggravik 4, the $145 Aggravate 4 cuz
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we're $160. Most of the difference price
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would come from the uh the foam, the
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upgraded foam and this very nice mesh
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upper. True to size, relatively broad,
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well-held, really nice padded collars.
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We get some rig laces. They're a little
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stringy, a little kind kind of hard to
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untangle at times, but very nice. We
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have a nice gusset. You won't be able to
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see it, but we have a gusset that's far
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forward. I think it also Yeah. Uh, no,
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it doesn't line the front. Um, which is
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good. That helps get it lighter. Uh,
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lace up's been really solid. Very good.
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You also got nice reflective accents
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along the tongue and at the heel. Um,
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the geometry is very similar to the
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other uh recent Aggraviks, the TT and
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the Aggravik 4. Uh, but the ride is, I
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think, uh, more refined. Um, and if you
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want to, uh, we'll do a little bit of
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comparison here. I don't have those
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pairs with me, but I'll show you a
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picture. Uh, Agravic TT,
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>> 298 grams in a in a, um, US uh, um, 9
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uh, 10.5 oz. 23 gram heavier than our um
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than our SL. Same heel, about 39, but
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uh, a greater drop, an 8 mm drop, plus a
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plastic plate. Uh, we found it firm,
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unwieldy, kind of overly springy off the
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front, firm at the heel. This is a much
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better option than the TT, I think. Um,
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and and it's a more recent shoe, as you
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can see, cuz it's just coming out. TT's
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been out a few months, so a definite
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improvement. Uh, in particular, the
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Light Strike, um, all Light Strike Pro
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and no kind of uh, uh, overdone, not
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necessary plate, which added weight. The
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other one in the Adidas lineup to talk
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about is the Agravic 4 compared to um to
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uh 275 just a teeny bit lighter but it
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has a 3mm lower heel and a 5 mm lower
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forefoot. So it's less kind of less shoe
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underf foot. It's a bit more flexible.
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Um its midsole is all light strike
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three. the SL Evo ATR, the sort of
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winter uh running shoe with the weather
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resistant upper, 1.5 millimeter lugs.
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It's lighter. It's 263 grams. Um because
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of probably be mainly because of the
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outsole versus uh our um 275 here. Same
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uh well, it's 9.3 o the US9. So it's
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it's cons, you know, quite a bit
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lighter, 1 g lighter than our um than
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our um Agravic SL mainly that outsole 40
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a little bit higher stack height maybe
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40 33 and a half about the same little
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bit narrower uh midfoot platform but
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with the heel and the forefoot the same
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same uh the pricing is 160 160 on that
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one. So, that shoe is really a road shoe
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with very light trail capabilities. Sort
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of your winter running shoe. Um, and um,
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it's it's a little bit I found it a
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little livelier, little quicker feeling.
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This this has a lot of dense I think the
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foam is denser here. And um, there's
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much more of a cushion feel here. So,
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um, we took them out, uh, we took this
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one out, uh, for a run yesterday on
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mostly gravel and then some some very
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smooth single track. Um, it it felt be
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best on the trail. The gravel it did
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perfectly fine, but um, it's not a kind
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of a gravel speedster feeling shoe.
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Definitely the grip was noticed. And
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then today we went for a hike on Stewart
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Falls at Sundance Resorts with great
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views of Mount Tempenus. moderately
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technical trail and the the amount the
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cushioning and protection was was
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outstanding. We weren't running them. Um
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just hiking, so we'll do some more and
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uh in our written review coming soon,
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we'll we'll cover more running. But one
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thing I noticed is, you know, we do have
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that plastic shank uh which makes it,
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you know, quite stiff through the
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midfoot and and with this outsole with
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the coverage through here, I was
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catching the midfoot and towards the
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heel at the slower paces. I think it
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really favors uh faster kind of pace
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running off the front. Take advantage of
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its rocker over hiking, although it's a
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perfectly fine hiking shoe. Um, but
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there are others out there that, you
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know, don't have that kind of grabby
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grabby feeling. Um, the the upper stayed
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secure, relaced them once, you know,
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just and I got them completely wet as
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you
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as we see in the picture. Dried very
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quickly. I was very surprised. Um,
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drained and dried very quickly. So, uh,
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what is this shoe all about? Well, it's
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an everyday kind of allaround trail
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shoe. It'll compete with the somewhat
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lighter um broader platform Hoka
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Speedgoat for example. Uh maybe a Sakin
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Paragreen. Um the mo its most notable
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attributes I think are the the light
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strike pro um foam midsole here in this
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denser I think formulation which
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provides not only lots of stability and
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support even with that goofy plate. Um
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but a a very measured rebound not overly
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bouncy but very kind of steady rebound
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which is characteristic of light strike
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pro. For example, in the Speedgoat 7,
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you've got an Superc Critical EVA, which
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is kind of bouncier, softer in feel.
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This is kind of more solid and
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supportive. Um, what would I do
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differently? Uh, I still think in and I
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found we found this with the Agra Vic 4
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and the the TT, there's something a
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little off with the rear foot geometry.
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I think it could have a bit more
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pronounced rocker to roll you forward. I
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question the plate still, even though
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it's much less of an issue than it is
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for me anyway in the um Evo in the SL
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Evo road shoes. Uh but I I'd love to see
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it lower down or as a sort of torsion
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kind of system closer to the ground so
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there isn't as much kind of springiness,
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but there isn't much here. It's
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certainly less springier than the TT.
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>> $160. It's a a very solid value from
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Adidas and uh I think their best kind of
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regular all-around trail shoe in a in a
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long time. Thank you very much for
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watching. We're going to have a full
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multi-est written review real soon on
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roadtrailrun.com where we have many many
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many other trail shoe reviews.
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