Asics Gel Nimbus 23 'Classic Red Black'
Colorway: Classic Red/Black · Style code: 1011B004-600 · Release date: November 2024 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Gel Nimbus 23 'Triple Black' (1011B004-002) · Asics Gel Nimbus 23 'Black Electric Red' (1011B004-007) · Asics Gel Nimbus 23 'Digital Aqua Grey' (1011B004-020) · Asics Gel Nimbus 23 'Sheet Rock' (1011B004-021) · Asics Gel Nimbus 23 'White Oyster Grey' (1011B004-100)
For most of its first decade the Nimbus sold on GEL. The silicone inserts were the visible feature, cut into the midsole where a buyer could see them and printed across the box, while the foam around them was ordinary EVA doing unremarkable work. That balance inverted over the following twenty years. By this generation the cushioning story belonged to the foam, with FlyteFoam and its softer variants carrying the ride and GEL reduced to a supporting part at the heel. Weight and stack height were tuned around the midsole compound rather than the inserts. The whole running industry made that shift, and the Nimbus is a clean place to watch it, because the shoe never changed its purpose while its parts were replaced underneath it. Red leading a colourway is unusual on a line that leans heavily on blues, greys and black, and it reads as the season's outlier rather than its default.