Nike ACG Ultrafly 2 | SneakerNews.com Release Date, Price & Where to Buy

We’ve mentioned it earlier than and we’ll say it once more: Nike is at its best possible when it creates efficiency footwear that appears so good, it may be worn as a each day driver. This precept was the pressure behind the success of the Pegasus Premium‘s grand debut earlier in January, proving that the Swoosh nonetheless has the chops to design athlete-driven tools that may be worn for trendy functions.

We view the upcoming ACG Ultrafly 2 in that very same class. Designed for critical trail-runners, the second mannequin of the Ultrafly sequence builds on the $260 Ultrafly 1 with a radical new re-design that has agency potential to be successful amongst the gorp-core demo together with hardcore runners.

This primary take a look at an early pair was noticed not way back by @runners_highest on Caleb Olsen, a Nike athlete and ultramarathoner that usually checks out upcoming Nike Path product. The Ultrafly 2 boasts an outsized Swoosh emblem that dips into the midsole whereas the outside shell incorporates a ridged sample much like a topographic map. It’s going to very doubtless have a carbon Flyplate layered onto the ZoomX foam cushioning like Ultrafly 1 does. The outsole additionally options the official Vibram stamp on the outsole whereas the Ultrafly 1 didn’t (though that mannequin was additionally designed in partnership Vibram).

Curiously sufficient, this early Ultrafly 2 is branded with ACG on the tongue and All-Circumstances Gear. This will counsel that the Nike Path line may very well be absorbed into the Nike ACG mainline, or that this mannequin particularly is being transferred over to that class. A fair earlier pattern of the Ultrafly 2 (pictured beneath) didn’t characteristic ACG logos, however quite a big NIKE TRAIL textual content on the medial facet and the Nike Path emblem on the toe.

Nike has but to formally announce the small print across the Ultrafly 2, however with what seems to be finalized pairs out within the open and being examined, Nike may very well be saying the mannequin quickly.

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