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Velocity OutfitPolaris go retro for 2013
It looks like Polaris are going retro for 2013 with these crochet mitts. The mitts aren’t available yet but they just sent us through a pic of things to come.
Back in the olden days you could spot a cyclist at 50 yards in the summer thanks to the distinctive round tan marks on the back of the hands. Then you knew it was safe to approach and strike up a conversation about gear inches, leg shaving and so on.
There are quite a lot of crochet mitts still out there, of course, but Lycra and other synthetics have largely taken over.
Anyway, Polaris are bringing them back. These match Polaris’s existing Velo City jersey. This is polyester with a YKK zip and it comes in a performance fit for £44.99.
Polaris aren’t giving away any more details of their 2013 retro range just yet, but for full details of the products that are already out there head over to www.polaris-apparel.co.uk.
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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- mitsky 6 min 32 sec ago
"... would have easily 1678 RLJ offences by motorists prosecuted..." Unless the vehicles were self-driving/autonomous. http://rc-rg.com
- Secret_squirrel 8 min 14 sec ago
Im betting these come out of the same factory as the SG and the Grip grab gloves. Identical apart from the Silicon overlay....
- Steve K 13 min 29 sec ago
Oh, and for long rides (100 miles ish) a whole pack of fig rolls and a couple of jam sandwiches normally does my fuelling.
- stonojnr 25 min 9 sec ago
That "old lane" as you call it, is 1) very much open, some misguided cyclists still use it. I used it once, vowed never to again and I block ride...
- Backladder 30 min 19 sec ago
Confusingly there seem to be two Millicent roads which cross at approximately right angles, the one that is north-east to south-west is the one...
- Owd Big 'Ead 39 min 47 sec ago
Indeed....
- brooksby 43 min 30 sec ago
I presume that garda will be sacked shortly for showing up all of their colleagues?
- SaveTheWail 2 hours 41 min ago
"Although other neighbours were outside, nobody else had thought to alert her mum and siblings because there was no car on the drive so they didn’t...
- Tech Noir 3 hours 17 min ago
"Aldi apologised for the blocked bike racks and said "we have spoken with the store to make sure that the cycle bays are clear for use at all times...
- essexian 3 hours 53 min ago
Interesting..... but perhaps I'll wait for the LIdl or Aldi copy and save a couple of hundred quid.....
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When two out of three comments begin 'oooh' they must be doing something right.
Ooh I think I see my next jersey/gloves.
You know you are getting old when "retro" looks normal ;-(
oooh, i've been waiting for the slinky see-through peek-a-boo cycle jersey to arrive
(shaves chest)