Reebok Pumps - Pump it up !

The Reebok Pump is a line of athletic shoes that was popular in the early 1990s. It was that time the only shoe that have an internal inflation mechanism that regulates an unique fitting cushion in the upper tongue.
Now there is two competitors for the Reebok Pumps. The first is the LA Gear Regulators and the second is ofcourse Nike Air Pressure. Nike does use a similar inflation mechanism in their "Shox" models available as basketball or cross-training sneakers.
A little of history:
The Reebok Pump was was released in 1989, as a basketball high-top shoe. It was made as a collaboration between Reebok's Paul Litchfield and the Continuum. The shoe was quite expensive compared to other retail athletic shoes at the time. It became fastly something of a status symbol on urban basketball courts as well as suburban high schools.

After the success of the basketball shoe, Reebok designed pump shoes for football, tennis, and track. But for weight considerations, they used a standard CO2 cylinder instead of the pump in some models.

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