We have been dusting off our schoolgirl French and lusting after DOYOUVelo’s trench coats.
This French company mainly produces high-end (we’re talking up to around $350) trench-style raincoats for men and women made from waterproof, breathable, and reflective fabric. Each coat has extra pull-out armband reflectors and a roomy hood which might even fit over your helmet.
DOYOUVelo’s range also includes rain hats and messenger bags.
DOYOUVelo is currently available only in Paris and Lyon and through the DOYOUVelo’s French language store.
But us a ticket to France! Je parle francais un petit peu…
PS DOYOUVelo are also developing a light and compact helmet in a ‘honeycomb’ design. Thanks to our friend @howard61 for pointing us to this tres interessant post.
SUPER EXCITING UPDATE 10 June 2010: CycleStyle will be Outlier’s first retailer in Australia. Our first lot of stock will be the Women’s Daily Riding Pant in Black.
Outlier is a New York-based company which caught our eye with their fabulous slim-fit cycling pants for men and women.
Their core product is the mens Outlier 4Season OG Pants (US$180). The fabric stretches and breathes, and is made of 80% nylon, 10% polyester and 10% spandex. The fabric’s coating includes nano-sized spears that help moisture roll right off.
They’ve also recently launched their women’s Daily Riding Pants (US$180), using the same stretchy, water-resistant and breathable fabric, and expanded the range to include merino Ts, hoodies, shirts and caps.
We’re desperate to stock the stylish Outlier pants here at CycleStyle – especially after blowing out the bottom of our jeans cycling around rural China! Unfortunately they are a very small company and only looking to sell from their own online store at this stage. We’re hoping all of you will clamour for them so that we can show the stats to the guys at Outlier and say ‘Hey look, there’s a big bunch of people who don’t live in New York and who would love to be able to get their hands on your pants!’
In the meantime, feel free to drool over the fashionable items and enlist your Stateside friends and family to grab a pair for you.
The City of Sydney is showing that its support for the city’s burgeoning cycling culture by launching Cycle Bias – free sewing workshops for bike lovers!
On Saturday 15 May, trendy cycling clothing label Spoke + Spool are running a free afternoon sewing workshop for bike lovers.
All you have to do is bring some old clothing or fabric and make your own cycling clothes. The Spoke + Spool team will give help you transform your old clothing into new, bike-friendly, functional pieces.
Sewing machines and equipment will be provided and all levels of sewing expertise are welcome. To book in to the workshop just email laura@spokenspool.com
We love the range from Spoke + Spool (in fact, we’ve tried to get in touch with them several times to no avail) and we’re sure you’ll come away with something wonderful. We only wish they’d run the workshops in Melbourne!
When I tell people that I used to cycle to work in London for an hour every day (and sometimes cycling even further to get to a West End show after work), many people are really surprised.
But London isn’t really a cycling city, they say, what with those mouthy black cab drivers and big red double-decker buses that look like they could squash you in a second. And what about the wind and rain and cold?
Well, whether or not you have enough bike bravery to navigate four lanes of traffic at Shepherds Bush Green and can ride with numb fingers, Transport for London is certainly trying its best to turn London into a cycle friendly city. And so it’s been publicising a cycling clothing collection designed by Bspoke. Waterproof, windproof and breathable – it’s all there.
However, the range has received mixed reviews. The Guardian gives menswear a tick with ‘carefully designed and well made‘ while womenswear is described as ‘hideous and unflattering‘ (we also had a giggle at some of the comments about the female reviewer looking like a firewoman minus the helmet and the hatchet).
In the words of Janet Jackson ‘You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’.
While she might have been singing about her lost love, or extinct animals, I’m thinking I wish I’d bought more stuff at Urban Outfitters while I lived 10 minutes away from their store.
Love these bike Ts (by the way, the US store delivers to Australia now!)
We’re not usually advocates for silly or costume-y cycle wear, but we do love the aesthetic of a Tweed Ride.
While we think full Edwardian garb is just about crossing the line, we love these tweed knee socks with optional garters which were produced by Rapha for the recent Tweed Run in London.
We even contemplated getting our own pair – but just stopped our mouse from clicking on ‘Buy’ when we realised we were going to be paying around $70 for a pair of socks, luxury merino or not.
Please let us know if you spot a pair of tweed/argyle knee socks which are reasonably priced!
If you’re really into tweed rides, you can buy more Tweed Run products like silk scarves and hip flasks in their online store.
