So Uniqlo the global clothing company based out of Japan has just officially announced its new lineup of cycling t-shirts.
I thought I'd go over that in today's video and share this with you guys
This is some pretty exciting news
if you just saw my new recent job announcement video
You'll know that I just started my new job with BMC here in Japan, and I've actually got my new
BMC Uniqlo t-shirt on right now and I wanted to share this one with you guys
And also there's some other ones for some other brands as well a couple months ago
I made a video with my wife when we went into a Uniqlo in Osaka and we've came across all the Bianchi road bike t-shirts
There and this is kind of an expansion on that in the past
They really only had the Bianchi road bike t-shirts and now they've expanded it to four different brands
So let's go ahead and look at some of the new designs
I actually got this t-shirt a couple of weeks ago before it was officially announced and I had it on card of embargo
I wasn't allowed to share this with anyone that was pretty exciting for me
that was the first time something like this has really happened to me and
This is one of the shirts
so each brand has two different shirt models or two different new shirt models that they have BMC has one red one and
This white one that I've also got here. So I've got one of each
Anyway, let's look at the designs of these ones and then let's go on to some of the other bicycle prints
These are really good value in Japan. These are only about
990 yen, which is not even ten dollars in the last video
Some people said that these were available in other countries as well like the US so I think the u.s
Price might be a little bit more. So about 15 dollars or so
But even then that's a pretty good deal for a nice cycling t-shirt. You'll also notice behind me. I've got my
BMC
SLR oh one which is actually the same bike that you see on the shirt here and on the back of the shirt
You can see we've got the SLR Fonzie machine here as well. So that's pretty cool a nice little coincidence
I thought I'd put the bike in the video as well and on the white shirt as well
You'll see we've got the team machine SLR one in the beautiful red BMC color white one is a bit more simplistic
There's nothing on the back. So a little bit different style design
The B red one has the bike here on the chest pocket and again the bike on the back
So there's some crossovers with the other designs. The other main brands are giant Colnago and of course
Bianchi where it all began here at Uniqlo. So first, let's go into the new giant designs
So every bike company has two different new models the first one. Let's look at the white giant propel shirt
so they propel advanced sl0 discs a lot of bike companies use the
Acronyms SL. Not sure why maybe superlight or something?
Yeah
pretty cool design here going with the blue colors the giant blue pretty cool artistic style here with the blue stripes and
Looks like we've got some Shimano pedals on here as well. So this one actually has no graphic on the back
So just the front the other one is black
We've got the bike
Giant logo propel advanced SL 0 1 disc and this one also no graphic on the back a bit more simplistic
Next let's go on to Colnago
starting with the light shirt
They've got a pretty interesting design here where the seat post is going up all the way over into the shoulder. That's pretty interesting and
We've got the main brand name on the down tube and also on the fork and nothing on the back of the other shirt
They have they want with a blue background design and blue logo and blue bike
This one actually includes the logo of the company
Above the bike and a different frame paint job here this one as well
nothing on the back but a nice simple clean design and
Comparison to the giant before this is actually a rim brake model and rim brakes are still pretty huge in Japan
I know the rest of the world has already gone on to disc for the most part
Japan is still holding on dearly to its rim brakes
But I'm hoping that wave of disk bikes on road bikes will come here to Japan pretty soon as well
And for the BMC design, they also went with the rim brakes as well
But for this model the SLR 0/1 there is also a disc model available. Next. Let's go onto the Bianchi collection
Strangely enough the Bianchi collection isn't showing up on the US Uniqlo website, but it's showing up on the Japanese one
So we'll go over some of those pictures there and there's already huge collection of Bianchi t-shirts that have been made through
Uniqlo already, you can check out our older video and there's been even more that were made before we made that video
But this one's pretty cool. It's got a nice collection of four different bicycles and all in different colors uniquely
so
Usually Bianchi is known for the celeste blue color that they have but here they've got a couple different bikes all in different colors yellow
orange gray and the celeste blue and
Doesn't look like there's anything on the back side of this one going on to the other shirt
this looks like is the same style as the red BMC shirt that I have here with the close-up of the frame going into the
Pocket and on the back side. We've got a big Bianchi logo on the back
That's actually pretty cool where they have the crest on there as well in addition to these shirts as well
I noticed that they have a kid's collection
The kids collection is limited to only Bianchi bikes and they also offer the same white design
But the four bicycles on there for the kids size and there's also two other
Unique different designs that weren't available in the adult sizes. The first one here
Is this black one with a mountain bike Bianchi with yellow tires? And it says B on G
So that one's pretty interesting
There's also Bianchi on the shoulder for there as well and one other kid collection
we've got the sort of Celeste blue full shirt color and
The frame of the bicycle mixing into the color of the background of the shirt, so I have to admit that looks pretty cool
How they blended the frame in with the background of the shirt and are just using the dark colors on the frame
so that you can imagine the shape of the frame and everything else and the deep wheels as well looks really nice and
That's the full collection of the bikes here. So again, the price is in Japan
990 yen for the adult shirts and
790 yen for the kids shirts
so really cheap if you're buying these in Japan and most of these if not
All of them should be available in the international uni clothes stores as well
Some people mentioned in the last video that they were available, but other people also mentioned that they weren't available
so anyway
Go check out the local Uniqlo nearby you and let me know in the comments if they are
Available which one of this new line up do you think is best for me?
I'm obviously a bit biased I'm going with the BMC red red is one of my favorite colors. And yeah
the snow down below which one you think is best that's going to be up for today's video for anyone new to the channel if
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