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Hincapie announce new season lineup

New clothing from Big George's brand, including plenty of reflective fabric technology
by Mat Brett
Tue, Apr 23, 2013 11:57
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Hincapie Sportswear have announced their Spring 2013 clothing collection which includes a number of fabric innovations. Here are the highlights…

The Power Series is intended for everyday use, the jersey (£84.99) being made from Aerator double-weave fabric that’s designed to wick away moisture and dry fast. Hincapie are including lots of reflective details across the range and here you get a reflective flatlock seam at the back and black reflective logos.

The men’s Power GT bibshorts (£134.99) are made from a fabric called AT2 Force Lycra Power and they feature Coldblack finish technology to reflect heat away from your body (Rapha, for example, use this technology on some of their clothing too). The saddle wear areas use ABR Resistor Lycra to avoid abrasion.


One of the most unusual features of the bibshorts is the HyperOptic Elastane fabric which features pinhead-sized eyelets and a reflective surface underneath. In the daytime the colors of the top elastane layer are visible. But the idea is that at night, vehicle light shines through the tiny eyelets and bounces off the hidden reflective subsurface to increase your visibility.

Hincapie describe the Nitro Series (main pic) as “essentially a team kit for individuals”. The jersey (£74.99) uses elastic TourTek fabric and Accelerator stretch mesh, and it’s cut close to reduce drag. The matching bibshorts (£89.99) use a seamless, anatomical multi-density Pro Chamois with perforated foam inserts. 

Pro team BMC Racing use Hincapie clothing and rider feedback has apparently influenced the race-centric Edge line. This is Hincapie’s most race-focused kit, aimed at serious riders.

The Edge jersey (£89.99) uses lightweight TourTek Lite fabric in a body-hugging cut, and the sleeves are finished with reflective HyperOptic Elastane (see above) to boost your nighttime visibility.

 

The shorts (£99.99) are made from TourTek Compressor fabric that’s designed to provide compression support and, like the sleeves, they get that HyperOptic Elastane edging with a hidden reflective surface.

Hincapie reckon that the aero construction of their Edge clothing means that in the wind tunnel they found it 2secs faster per kilometre than regular kit.

All of the items shown here are available in different colours through Evans Cycles. We’ll get some in for review here on road.cc.

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Mat Brett

Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.

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pepita1 | 10 years ago
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The model is very fetching...can I buy one of those? 3

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_SiD_ | 10 years ago
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I didn't buy it then… and I'm certainly not buying it now.

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Decster | 10 years ago
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Why give an unrepentant doper like Hincapie free publicity. He made a fortune out of being a cheat and a fraud. Did he give back any of his part of the winnings? No. Now he gets to make loads more on his clothes brand.

Hincapie is and was part of the doping problem in cycling.

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Mat Brett | 10 years ago
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Kilometre, not kilogram! It'll be for a given power output but you'd always want to take these stats with a pinch of salt. You can certainly have your extra 160secs in bed... as long as your commute is 80km long, apparently.

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arrieredupeleton replied to Mat Brett | 10 years ago
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Mat Brett wrote:

Kilometre, not kilogram! It'll be for a given power output but you'd always want to take these stats with a pinch of salt. You can certainly have your extra 160secs in bed... as long as your commute is 80km long, apparently.

Doh!! I should have stayed in bed. I suppose my point was the same. That statistic means absolutely nothing to someone who has to actually purchase his or her own clothing i.e. not a pro holding 300 watts over several hours.

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arrieredupeleton | 10 years ago
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Oh, and what does 2 seconds a kilogram faster mean? Will I be 160 seconds quicker wearing this kit everywhere I go? I might reconsider buying some so I can get nearly 3 minutes extra in bed each morning. 4

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arrieredupeleton | 10 years ago
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Maybe 'Big' George should be a little more 'reflective' himself. Concentrate on your hotel mate, a lot of people won't touch your products now, me included. You've made enough from cycling already through dubious means. Go and plant some grapes or something.

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cycle_physio | 10 years ago
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hincapie took drugs, like most others of his time seemed to, ie Lance, the difference is he didn't ruin the lives, repuations and earnings of everything in his way just to admonish / hide his own guilt

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Dog72 | 10 years ago
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How is it that GH who was, allegedly, part of one the biggest doping scandals in Pro Cycling History gets PR for new products & hotels while his Capo gets slaughtered at the mere mention of his name? I accept that there are different degrees of below par behaviour here and GH comes across as a far more likeable fella, but is it right?

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