Asics Trabuco Max 2 'Deep Ocean Bright Orange'
Colorway: Deep Ocean/Bright Orange · Style code: 1011B606-401 · Release date: May 31, 2023 · Price: $1026 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Trabuco Max 2 'Black Golden Yellow' (1011B606-001) · Asics Trabuco Max 2 'Black Gris Blue' (1011B606-003) · Asics Wmns Trabuco Max 2 'Midnight Papaya' (1012B426-400) · Asics Wmns Trabuco Max 2 'Black Hot Pink' (1012B426-002)
The Trabuco name has been on ASICS trail shoes for more than two decades, surviving a renaming to Fuji-Trabuco and a return, which is a long life for a line most road runners have never heard of. Max is its newest branch and the most obviously borrowed: the tall, soft midsoles that took over road running in the early 2020s, carried onto dirt, with roughly forty millimetres of foam at the heel over lugs cut for gravel and mud. That was a contentious transfer. Height on uneven ground normally costs stability, which is the property a trail shoe exists to provide, and testers of this line kept returning to the point that it still let them feel what they were standing on. Deep ocean with bright orange is the outdoor palette in its most conventional form, and the second edition is where the platform got taller still.