Rapha has unveiled a range designed specifically for riding indoors on a trainer. Inevitably, given the popularity of apps like Zwift, brands have begun to cater for this market, Madison having revealed a range of turbo-specific clothing at the start of last year.
Here’s the Rapha range:
Indoor Training Sweat Cap £30
The lightweight cap uses a highly ventilated spacer mesh designed to keep you cool and dry, and absorbent fabrics to soak up sweat. An internal sweat band is intended to collect moisture and keeping the cap in place.
Indoor Training Sleeveless T-shirt £35
This is made from a lightweight, breathable fabric that’s designed to wick sweat from your body. It is cut looser than a base layer. Men’s and women’s versions are available.
Indoor Training Towel £10
The towel comes with loops that fit to the hoods of your levers.
Core Cargo Shorts £95
Available in both men’s and women’s versions, these shorts have been available for a while. They come with a very comfortable seatpad and no bib section, so there’s no extra fabric next to your upper body
Read our review of the bib version of Rapha’s Core Cargo Shorts.
All of these products are available now. Get more info over on Rapha’s website.
What do you think, a useful addition to the market, or is turbo-specific clothing a step too far?
8 thoughts on “Rapha introduces new indoor training collection”
The vest costs the same as
The vest costs the same as any decent running vest from Nike, NB, Adidas etc. The cap costs the same as all their other caps (and it looks like it would be great for a ride on a hot day too) and the towel costs the same as….a towel. These simple facts will not stop the moaners. They must moan at all costs.
Jimmy Walnuts wrote:
I was about to moan, but you are completely right.
And you can’t say people wearing Rapha indoors are show-offs either.
I am still too cheap to buy special indoor kit of any brand, while having too much normal kit already.
Jimmy Walnuts wrote:
Jimmy, are you moaning about people moaning, who haven’t even moaned yet?
harragan wrote:
Hehe!
Ok, here’s a moan, but
Ok, here’s a moan, but nothing to do with prices or brand. Never turbo’d myself, but do people wear peaked caps for indoor training? I’ve sometimes considered a fetching sweatband for spin classes, but a casquette?
quiff wrote:
I do occasionally wear a cap during a hard session as it is the best method I’ve found for stopping the inside of my glasses filling with sweat (invariably repeatedly and at the most inconvenient times). What makes it better than a sweatband is a cap’s peak continues to direct sweat away from the lenses even when soaked. If Rapha can do a better job of solving that annoyance for £30, then I think they might be onto a winner.
I wear dedicated turbo kit.
I wear dedicated turbo kit.
It is the kit I used to wear outdoors, but is now in such a state that I wouldn’t consider it in public. To wear for an hour or so when in the pain cave to get minging with sweat, it is probably still ideal.
Sniffer wrote:
This.
Just … this.