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- Adidas
- Gender
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- Colourway
- Black White
Adidas Velosamba Black White
Adidas Velosamba Black White
- Brand
- Adidas
- Gender
- Unisex
- Colourway
- Black White
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Part of adidas's Velosamba line. This release has a leather upper in Core Black/Core White/Core Black. The Velosamba is the strangest good idea adidas has had in years: take the Samba, a shoe made for footballers training on frozen pitches, and rebuild it for people who ride. The logic holds because the Samba was already the right shape, low, flat, narrow, built around a foot pressing down on something hard. Cyclists had been wearing Sambas anyway, in the same way skaters and terrace crowds took over adidas shoes without being asked. This is the company noticing that adoption and formalising it, which is exactly what it did after the Superstar left the NBA. Black with White keeps it in commuter register: no reflective flash, no sport styling, a shoe that looks like a Samba until you look properly.
Two ways to use it. First, as intended: commute in it, ride in it, then walk into the office without changing shoes, which is the whole point of a stiffened sole that still flexes enough to be civil. Second, styled: black jeans or dark tapered trousers with a black jacket, where White trim keeps the outfit from going flat. Best for city riding, rain, and anything where a slick soled trainer would be dangerous. Samba lasts run narrow and long, so a half size down works for most feet, but riding shoes suit a slightly snugger fit than usual. Wipe grease off immediately, keep the sole clean, and air dry rather than heat dry.
adidas has been rescued twice by people who took its shoes somewhere the company had not planned, from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and George Gervin wearing Superstars in the NBA to Run-DMC putting shell toes in the air at Madison Square Garden in 1986 and triggering the first endorsement deal between a musical act and an athletic company. Urban cycling is a smaller version of the same phenomenon, and the Velosamba is adidas answering it with product rather than a campaign. It also fits the terrace lineage the Samba already belongs to: a shoe worn by people commuting and standing, not competing, which is where most adidas gets worn anyway.
The Samba bones are all here, the T shaped toe overlay that protected footballers in contact, the Three Stripes running low along the sidewall where they began life as structural reinforcement, and the slim profile that keeps you close to the ground. What changes for riding is the sole: it is built stiffer through the middle than a standard Samba so the foot does not wrap around a pedal on a long ride, while still walkable at the other end. The black upper is the practical choice for a shoe that will meet chain grease, road spray and a bike rack. White stripes and sole trim keep the Samba silhouette legible so it does not read as sports equipment.
- Brand
- Adidas
- Gender
- Unisex
- Colourway
- Black White
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