Support road.cc

Like this site? Help us to make it better.

TECH NEWS

Hoy Vulpine unveils limited edition Palmarès range

New lineup salutes Sir Chris Hoy's track achievements

Hoy Vulpine has launched a limited edition Palmarès range that’s designed as a celebration of Sir Chris Hoy’s achievements on the track.

Hoy Vulpine Palmares - 1.jpg

The black aero jersey features six gold bands and a single silver band, a nod to Chris Hoy’s Olympic medal tally, plus gold foil logos and a gold authenticity tab.

Hoy Vulpine Palmares - 4.jpg

“This is a performance aero jersey without the in-your-face logos and brash colours,” said Sir Chris. “Both myself and Nick [Hussey, founder of Vulpine] wanted this to be a classy celebration of my palmarès and I think we’ve definitely achieved this. 

Hoy Vulpine Palmares - 15.jpg

You’ll doubtless know that palmarès refers to a rider’s racing achievements.

“Having retired from competitive cycling three years ago and with 2016 being such a big year for sport, we thought it would be fun and timely to look back at my career and put all the results together into a piece I hope cycling fans will enjoy owning and wearing.” 

Hoy Vulpine Palmares - 13.jpg

Sir Chris took to the boards of the Glasgow velodrome that bears his name to shoot the range. He wore his original competition helmet and visor, and rode his own custom made steel Hoy track machine, built as a one off by Scottish frame builder Shand. This too sports the six gold and one silver band motif.

Hoy Vulpine Palmares - 8.jpg

The limited edition male and female Palmarès Jerseys are priced at £115 and the Palmarès Cap is £15. They're available in limited editions from vulpine.cc.

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.

Latest Comments

  • mark1a 13 sec ago

    Almost certainly, reaction times won't have changed of course, but they were probably based on a Ford Anglia or similar with drum brakes &...

  • chrisonatrike 0 sec ago

    In NL the vast majority of places where lorries are allowed cycling isn't (much better alternatives are provided).  So Dutch lorry drivers might...

  • chrisonatrike 2 min 43 sec ago

    Actually, any cycle campaign should be first and foremost for the right of children to cycle.  This engages with the largest audience / is the most...

  • OnYerBike 8 min 8 sec ago

    If anyone is interested, according to the latest census 61.4% of households in Maida Vale have no access to cars/vans....

  • luk 13 min 16 sec ago

    some ebikes (with Fazua?) have USB output, so you could easily recharge this pump! that's sounds tempting.

  • henryb 1 hour 26 min ago

    I'd say it's fine to try and beat your mates up Box Hill when you all arrive at the bottom together, or to try and catch that wheel that you see 50...

  • HoarseMann 1 hour 40 min ago

    Many years ago, an uninsured, unlicenced driver in a vehicle with no MOT and registered as scrapped with the DVLA, ran into the back of my car....

  • boblo 2 hours 35 sec ago

    The reviewer says 'you can send texts'. Are these still the silly predefined ones from Garmin with no option to define your own from either the...

  • mattw 2 hours 21 min ago

    That seems distrubingly similar to the "try and deceive the police, try and deceive the Court, then deceive yourself to avoid having to take...

  • EraserBike 2 hours 37 min ago

    Clearly these scumbags are not buying motocross bikes through normal channels. They are stolen, just like this poor guy's bike. Police are...