Hello and welcome to this week's vlog! So today is an exciting day because I've
just had two big boxes arrived on my desk at Cycling Weekly mega base HQ.
And they contain our new custom kit which I can announce, is being made in
association with Le Col, so I'm really excited about that. So I'm
going to crack open the boxes, check out what's in there and and take a look at it
and then try it out. And stay tuned to
the end of the vlog because this week's prize is going to be a chance to win
shorts and the jersey of the new kit. I've just realised if I sit here like
this and go that way, I can make it look like the little helmet is on top of my head...
Right, so let's open the boxes...
So this is our new kit by Le Col. it's a bit of a departure from the previous
kit, the top now features this navy blue and the normal Cycling Weekly red and a
slightly darker red as well. So I've got the matching shorts as well, which say Le Col
and then have the Cycling Weekly logo on there and I've got some leg warmers on.
This jacket I've got on is the Le Col Aqua Zero jacket, so it's kind of
a long-sleeve jersey with a water repellent coating on it. Short sleeve
jersey, I need a bit of a tan, look how white my arms are. You see the
sleeves here, they're really cool because they've got this aerodynamic fabric on
the sleeves like that. So this is the same spec jersey that's gonna be
worn by the Wiggins team as well. I've got loads of socks, white ones and black ones
depending on whether it's raining. Never have enough socks. Some toe covers,
some shoe covers as well, some Le Col gloves, arm warmers and leg warmers.
They also sent through their insulated thermal gilet. They haven't done this
branded as Cycling Weekly, it's just the standard black one. I kind of like that
because it can is it's kind of a bit pro. When you see the weather turns bad in
races and all the riders start putting on the black jackets over their trade
kit and they get in trouble and they get fined by the race organisers.
Hey! What do you think of the new kit? Looks really good. Do you like it? Yeah! I've got a set
for you upstairs. Have you? Yeah. Well we're gonna look so professional.
So what does it remind you of? So what, which... Which pro team? Oh yeah.
Probably Bahrain Merida. I think it's pretty, yeah, I think it's pretty Bahrain.
We've taken some stylistic cues. I'm gonna have to get that Merida Reacto
out from the last aero test. You need one of the Rudy gold helmets. Oh... We have
one of them in, talk to Sy.
You can do your best Nibali impression. And then I'll win Milan-San Remo.
Yeah. It's all gonna come together. Can't wait...
First ride out in the new kit and first impressions are really good, I really
like it. Fit's good and there's a thing
when you're wearing new kit and you're representing in your team colours or
your club colours, just kinda nice. I've reviewed a couple of Le Col items in the
past like the HC Jacket which won our Editor's Choice Award and you know that's
just a really great item, it just sort of ticks all the boxes for me, and what I
want from a good all-round jacket. I mean proofs in the pudding really you've
probably seen me wearing it you may have noticed me wearing it in quite a few
videos and stuff and that's not because we were sponsored by Le Col
that's just because - at the time we weren't - I just wore it because I really liked that bit of
kit and rated it so, It'll be exciting to try out more of their products and then
get given them to wear really, so yeah, pretty cool. Something else I need to
tell you about is to also celebrate the launch of our new kit we're going to be
doing a ride out in which anyone's invited. So it's going to be myself and
some of the other guys and girls from the Cycling Weekly team and also Yanto
Barker, the founder of Le Col, who is ex-professional and former GB rider.
He's going to come down and ride at this as well. And details are yet to be finalised
as to when and where it's going to be but rest assured it's going to involve a
banging cake stop. I'll let you know the details as and when, but I'm also gonna
vlog it so, yeah, it's the opportunity to be in one of the vlogs if you want to
come down as well so that's pretty cool I think I look forward to it.
So to be in a chance to win the Cycling Weekly Le Col kit then all you
have to do is comment below and I want to hear what your favourite jersey is of
all time. What do you think is the best jersey that has ever been? So there's
been loads of classic designs over the years from the classic Molteni jerseys
that Eddy Merckx used to wear, the Banesto team jerseys, the Mapei jerseys,
the Peugeot jerseys, Raphael jerseys as worn by Tom
Simpson. I mean there's just too many to name but of all these designs and things
that have happened over the years, even modern ones count as well. What do you
think is the best design there's been and why? Simply comment with that and be
in with a chance to win. But if you don't win the competition then fear not because,
and this I think it's pretty exciting, you're gonna be able to buy this kit on
Le Col's website. People have often asked: 'Where can I
get the Cycling Weekly kit?' and we haven't had it for sale before, but now we're
gonna sell it so if you want it you can buy it and it should be probably next to
where they're selling the Wiggins kit on Le Col's website, but don't buy that.
Why would you want to get? I that mean get Cycling Weekly kit. If any of you do buy
it, by all means, you know, take pictures of yourself and let us see
those. Send them in or post them on Instagram. So aside from the announcement
of our new kit, it's a pretty short vlog this week because I'm actually going on
holiday, I'm gonna go skiing so if you're out in Val Thorens and you see me I'll
probably be on like the nursery slopes falling over, I'm not very good skier.
And then after so I've got to go pack and do that and then the week after
though I'm back riding and I'm going to Spain with Yanto Barker from Le Col
so we're gonna go make some videos out in Spain with a company called Velo
Hols which would be really exciting I'm looking for that'd be nice to get some
sun I definitely, definitely need a tan, I'm so pasty right now. In case you're
wondering why I haven't announced the winner of last week's competition it's
because Paris-Roubaix hasn't happened yet so I can't announce the winner until Paris-Roubaix
happens. Feel free to go back and watch the video and comment on who you
think might win because a lot of people have done the obvious choices but in the
last 10 years, you know, Vansummeren won and Mat
Hayman. Both were massive surprises, sort of two hundred to one
odds so yeah there's still chance for you to win that competition if you
comment with someone who's a bit left-field.
So right, I'll see you later. We're gonna do some skiing now - bit of a white-out, but still good..