Cologne, London, Paris!

Records began to fall when Sydney Maree broke the 1500 metre World Record in a pair of what was to be named Cologne after that race (August 1983 3:31.24). These shoes where preproduction examples hand made by yours truly.

Snazzy Fox

One of these local runners was a young man called Ron Hill, he and Jeff got on like a house on fire. Ron was very inventive, he and his wife had set up in Hyde at the other side of Manchester, making string vests and cutaway shorts to improve Ron’s middle and long distance performance. He approached Jeff in late ’69: “What I want is a spike with no spikes! Just take the spike plate off and put a piece of rubber underneath!” so, the world’s first superlight weight road racing shoe was created.