Bought at retail, run for 400 kilometres, measured against fourteen metrics, then cut in half. No loaners, no embargoes, no sponsored placements.
Carbon plates usually delaminate long before the outsole does. The Vector 4 is the first plated trainer in our lab to finish a full test cycle with its geometry measurably intact.
The outsole compound is the best we have measured on wet rock. Everything above it gives up first, and that is the whole problem with this shoe.
A beautifully finished upper sitting on a midsole that measures worse than shoes at half the price. You are paying for the leather and nothing underneath it.
Sixty pounds cheaper than anything with comparable foam density. The outsole wears fast on tarmac, but the ride quality is unarguable at the price.
182 grams, and a stack that still clears our impact threshold. Built for one job, and it does not pretend to be a daily trainer.
Removing the rock plate saved forty grams and cost the shoe its entire reason to exist on technical ground.