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Star Wars compression T-shirt: Use the Force

Under Armour offers film related base layers

If you’re getting caught up in the whole Star Wars hype at the moment and you feel the need to express it through the medium of a compression base layer, JD Sports stocks these Under Armour Star Wars options. Presumably, the Force will be with you… always.

These are made from lightweight fabrics with 4-way stretch and they’re said to be fast drying. 

They’re both from the dark side, though. There’s a white stormtrooper one and a black Darth Vader one. Yoda version there is not (sorry, but it’s a journalist’s duty to stick in torturous quotes and/or references when mentioning Star Wars; it's what they teach us at college).

Right, that’s enough of that nonsense. They’re 45 quid a pop. www.jdsports.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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sethpistol | 8 years ago
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make it stop!

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Leviathan | 8 years ago
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These are more for the gym than riding, can see some of them soon in gym selfies.

Like the x-wing pilot jersey though.

 

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usedtobefaster | 8 years ago
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There's also Knights sports wear for all you Star wars fans (I particularly like the X-Wing pilot jersey)

http://www.knightsportswear.com/collections/cycling

 

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LarryDavidJr replied to usedtobefaster | 8 years ago
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usedtobefaster wrote:

There's also Knights sports wear for all you Star wars fans (I particularly like the X-Wing pilot jersey)

http://www.knightsportswear.com/collections/cycling

 

I like the way they are subtley named to avoid direct Star Wars references.....

I'd take any one of these though.  If it's star wars, it's good!

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stenmeister | 8 years ago
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I've heard Rapha are going to do a baselayer made from Bantha wool yes

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Rapha Nadal | 8 years ago
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I wonder if there's something, somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away that hasn't been branded to co-inside with Star Wars...

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bikebot | 8 years ago
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The result of the successful merger of the merchandising company called Lucasfilm with the merchandising company called Disney.

I hear they make films as a sideline too.

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