Phew early winter windster glove full#

WeвЂ™re in little doubt it will hold up incredibly well and if youвЂ™re looking to layer up over this the newly launched adiZero cycling jersey, at just 65g, could prove to be the perfect partner. To date the F-Lite has impressed and Cyclo looks forward to testing through greater extremes вЂ“ both hot and cold вЂ“ over the coming year. ItвЂ™s never really occurred to us that design aesthetics matter with a base layer, but itвЂ™s kind of nice that F-Lite took the trouble donвЂ™t you think? Sticking with the unconventional the F-Lite Ultralight employs a polka dot styling, part of the design input that came from American free-rider and extreme skier Glen Plake. It achieves this unconventionally: constructed of otherwise fairly industry standard polyamide, polypropylene and elastane, the F-Lite Ultralight adds a carbon antistatic finish (cyclists love carbon, no?), which prevents the material sticking to the skin, ensuring a layer of air is permanently on hand to regulate heat. Thermal properties impressed Cyclo too, living up to the ideal of keeping us warm on colder training sessions, but effectively keeping things cool when temperatures climbed.

The lack of weight, to put it mildly, combined with the seamless/flat-seam construction, makes for an exceptionally comfortable experience.

Phew early winter windster glove full#

When it comes to the claim of being the lightest of its kind in the world, itвЂ™s hard to disagree вЂ“ the F-Lite Ultralight weighs only 70 grams/mВІ (presumably giving rise to the garments full name of F-Lite Ultralight 70 GP Base Layer), which means a medium size comes in at a gossamer whisper 75g. The base layer is flat-hemmed at the bottom and the seams that do remain (attaching the short-sleeved arms) are also flat-locked, laying more or less flush with the material and presenting no real risk of irritation even when things warm up on the run or ride.

The F-Lite Ultralight, as with all the base layers in the newly-launched collection, use the brandвЂ™s own F-liteTEX knitting technology вЂ“ a вЂtubular knitвЂ™ system not unlike that used to create the Buff, which means there are no side seams to rub, chafe or distort the figure-hugging shape. Available for the first time in the UK and part of a wider offering of functional base layers, socks and accessories from the German brand the F-Lite Ultralight lays claim to being the lightest of its kind in the world. There are a multitude of options when it comes to picking a high performance base layer but those multi-brand quandaries have now grown to include the F-Lite Ultralight Base Layer.