Okay, true, bright yellow (with a hint of green?) qualifies as colorful. I guess I tend to mentally file it under "original Nike band" rather than "colorful".
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Volt is my least favourite band in my collection. I dislike it so much that it put me off getting any other Nike bands for ages. Ironically I wear it every day as it’s on the S4 I use for sleep tracking.
Conversely I really like my wife’s Pink Blast and I have a Hyper Grape on the way.
Conversely I really like my wife’s Pink Blast and I have a Hyper Grape on the way.
Thanks. Maybe it's the purple one she's looking for. I need to see I can find an old product page or bigger pics to send to her to confirm.
Does anyone know where I could pick up a 44mm Papaya or Canary Yellow Sports Loop? Two of the three third party bands I got have lugs that aren't flush, so I'm wary of that route and the only first party ones I can find on eBay are for the wrong size watch, besides being absurdly expensive.
Apparently she was looking for Pink Blast. I had one shipped to her house.
Does anyone know where I could pick up a 44mm Papaya or Canary Yellow Sports Loop? Two of the three third party bands I got have lugs that aren't flush, so I'm wary of that route and the only first party ones I can find on eBay are for the wrong size watch, besides being absurdly expensive.
This a thousand times but only because of the black. Finally caved a few months ago. Not sure why other than owning a few old volt shoes.
There’s a few pink blast bands sitting on eBay for $30 and I feel like I’ll regret not grabbing one
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i snagged a pink blast sport band on ebay a few months ago for $25 a steal really
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do you think apple's issues with the coronavirus is gonna affect the spring collection?
Well if we’re waiting until the end of March and not a pre-event ~March 21 drop...I would think they can squeeze them out if they are able to have iPhone 9 and iPad Pro capacity? Different factories, I know, but the bands are way simpler if they aren’t struggling with the chemicals specific to each color?
I got the Black/Pink Blast Nike band thinking "I probably won't end up wearing this much" - I was wrong, it's gorgeous, and I wear it a lot. If I had to pare down to half a dozen bands, it'd make the cut. It's vibrant without being screamingly loud, and really pretty. Better in person than the pics suggest.
Outside of the Dalmatian looking ones and the outright hideous (looking at you royal pulse)...there is this urge to have every Nike fluoro band and most of the loops. I finally got the gamma blue and though I don’t know that it matches any of the watches well, it’s just so damn lickable and vivid and has that nice “color/(muted accent of same color)” vibe that I pray returns in spring.
Could this be the collection that tptb deign to give us any shade of yellow Nike? 🤗🤗🤗
I actually quite like the lighter bands with the black holes. In fact what got me to buy more Nike bands was that I picked up an S5 Nike with Pure Platinum and Black, and I liked that combo.
The last one I got, just a couple of days ago, takes me up to 8 Nike's and it was Royal Pulse. I do like Spruce Fog / Vintage Lichen a lot, but I haven't pulled the trigger on Blue Orbit / Gamma Blue - I haven't seen it in person but I don't like it all that much. I also have Teal Tint / Tropical Twist, but I call it my toothpaste band.
I'd be up for something in the yellow range - or red - next time round.
The last one I got, just a couple of days ago, takes me up to 8 Nike's and it was Royal Pulse. I do like Spruce Fog / Vintage Lichen a lot, but I haven't pulled the trigger on Blue Orbit / Gamma Blue - I haven't seen it in person but I don't like it all that much. I also have Teal Tint / Tropical Twist, but I call it my toothpaste band.
I'd be up for something in the yellow range - or red - next time round.
Golden orange with dark brown or black holes - make it look like a cheetah.
Actually, what I’d really like to see is Nike and Product Red team up for an all-red (no contrast color) perforated band. I think that look really nice.
Ooh yeah I like where you’re going with this.
That total orange watch face color is just sitting there taunting us...any warm spring color would be glorious. I have to admit I feel a little pang of desire when I see the non-canon knock-offs posted around here
I’m liking the orange idea with a contrast hole. I really like orange in general, but after I got my Hermes - I dropped the mic.
In my experience, the knock offs are always made out of silicone, and feel decidedly inferior (too stretchy, too sticky), and for some reason (probably cost) they seem to always make them thinner than Apple's fluoroelastomer bands. The few times I've tried, I've been left wanting.
Oh totally. They’re a crime. But just to see them in every color under the sun makes this whole attitude we have towards grail feel a little silly when we could all just have our favorite pro sports/college/whatever color scheme if we lowered our standards.
Before I got my folks on Watch they had really bad experiences with the silicone fitbit bands with itching and breaking and I would never. Nothing like that tack-y new band feel. It’s the kool-aid for sure 😋
Just wishcasting based on what color seems to be hot for Nike right now...an infrared band would be hot, similarity to the winter 19 product red fine by me:
also they‘re doing an air max anniversary shoe in hyper grape, volt, and hyper turquoise (below)
hyper orange:
unnamed lemon vibe:
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Here - all of Nike ones... I think I did post this photo already
Are knock off sports loops as bad? I found a guy who has an original canary yellow sports loop but he wants $100 for it and I just don't think I can stomach paying $100 for a sports loop. I also can't find an original 44mm papaya anywhere. I checked with ChargerStore on eBay but it seems like he's not sure if or when he'll get either in. Meanwhile Urvoi sells knocks offs of both for like a dollar on AliExpress.
Spend the dollar (or two, for both), see what you think. My impression is the knock-off sports loops are closer to OEM than the knock-off sports bands. They're working with essentially the same materials as the real ones. I only have experience with one example. The material felt nice, the dimensions were all a tiny bit off, particularly the end connectors, so it doesn't connect to the Apple Watch quite as securely, which makes me not want to use it (no matter the cost they're not cheaper if your watch falls on the ground and breaks).
As far as availability of the OEM ones, it's worth looking (and asking) on the /r/AppleBandMarket subreddit, you may have some luck there.
Yeah, that's my experience with two of the three very well reviewed third party bands I bought off of Amazon. It was enough for me to return both of them. The sports loops I use while working out, so it makes me nervous having my arms swinging all over while using a band that doesn't sit as securely. Maybe I'll see if I can find a knockoff papaya sports loop with fast shipping on Prime, see how it fits and if it's good get a canary yellow knockoff and if not then maybe shell out for the real one.
That's actually where I asked (last week) and got the $100 offer. I also followed up with a couple people who had them for sale for a lot less in the past few months, but it seems like they've all been sold. Actually, it's on there where someone suggested looking at the Buy/Sell/Trade forum here, but it seems like you need much more extensive posting history than I have to post there.
Ah, yes, the requirements for getting in the door are fairly high:
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Agreed. Apple should release something like this yellow and orange band: 
I have the 6 months. Actually, I have almost ten years. But I'm a few post short of 250. Guess that's what I guess for being mostly a lurker.
My wife has a favourite yellow skirt, however none of the sport band yellows work with it (we have all of them other than Canary, and that definitely won’t work). Original Yellow is closest, but the skirt is slightly more mustard than that. The Marigold leather colour may be right, but it’s an expensive experiment if it’s wrong.
Does anyone have a Marigold leather band they can compare with any of the sport bands in a photo, especially OG Yellow?
Does anyone have a Marigold leather band they can compare with any of the sport bands in a photo, especially OG Yellow?
