Hoka Clifton 9 Black

Part of Hoka's Clifton 9 line. This release has a knit upper in Black/Black/Black. The Clifton 9 in black is a generation of the model that a lot of people still consider the sweet spot. The Clifton line exists because Hoka needed to prove its founding idea worked beyond mountain descents: Nicolas Mermoud and Jean-Luc Diard built an oversized cushioned outsole in Annecy in 2009 to attack downhills, and the challenge afterwards was making that platform light enough to want on an ordinary road run. The Clifton was the answer, generation after generation, and the ninth is a mature version of that project. Blacked out, it stops looking like a running shoe and starts looking like something you will wear until it dies.