The Fast-R Nitro Elite 3 is built for speed—but is it the best choice for all kinds of runners? I laced up to find out.

The running shoe market is saturated, to put it lightly. As technology has improved, particularly with the advent of light, ...

"Carbon-plated running shoes have a stiff, thin carbon fiber plate in their midsole." He says the plate can help with energy return and make your strides more efficient. Put another way ...

FRANKFURT, Germany/TOKYO -- The European Union is considering a virtual ban on carbon fiber in motor vehicles that could take a toll on the material's Japanese manufacturers, which have more than ...

My focus at JEC World in Paris is always on what’s new, but this year, my highlights have a little bit of everything, from new materials and processes to 3D printed Invar tools to the first carbon ...

Every super shoe boasts some sort of ultralight, hyper-responsive foam with an embedded, curved carbon-fiber plate—but each delivers a surprisingly unique ride. You’ll have to experiment to ...

We’re talking speed that, for most of us, is an all-out sprint. You’ll recall that ... Naturally, when you stick a mega-stiff shank of carbon fiber into a shoe, that diminishes flexibility.

Allbirds has unveiled its highly anticipated M0.0NSHOT Zero sneaker, which it claims to be the world’s first shoe that is net-zero carbon without the use of offsetting. The shoe’s upper is made using ...

Triathlon-specific bike shoes, however, show no signs of going full Betamax, as evidenced here in Fizik’s latest techy carbon wonders – the Fizik ... He’s raced everything from super-sprint to Ironman ...

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