Women's Wild Style Technical Cycle Clothing
Alpkit cycle clothing began as a way to dress for gravel riding and bikepacking. We wanted something that wasn’t the traditional tight road clothing or baggy mountain bike kit. Skip forward a whole load of designing, developing, testing and riding later, and we’ve ended up with a range that is so much more than just ‘gravel kit’. A hugely adaptable collection of products that fills the gap between the peleton of road race and gnarl of downhill.
Women's Wild Style Technical Cycle Clothing
With over 30 years experience in performance fabrics and technical apparel design, our cycle clothing takes the best fabrics available to keeps you warm, dry and protected from the elements throughout the seasons. Ethical. Technical. Sustainable.
Riding is what we do, riding is what we love. From messing around in the woods to all-mountain, trail centre, bikepacking, endurance road and round-the-world adventures.
Strada and Merino Cycling Kit Selection
classic styling for long distance, bikepacking, touring and mountain trails. For the wealth of riding opportunities between Full On Lycra and Full On Enduro. Strada Kit Selection is for the majority of riding journeys. Strada is our go-to super comfortable classic styling cycling short made from exceptionally good 4-way stretch fabric. Merino is natures technical fabric made with 100% pure 17.2 micron superfine merino sourced from non-mulesing farms in New Zealand. Literally the finest merino you can buy.
Floe Mountain Bike Clothing
All mountain comfort, performance and protection. Trail centres, singletrack, all mountain and enduro. Fast wicking, highly breathable and thermoregulating with an articulated design for freedom of movement. A looser fit jersey and baggy shorts for when protection is more important than aerodynamics.
Rhythm Cycling Clothing
All day lycra riding comfort. Our quest for happy bums .... it's what's on the inside that counts particularly with padded shorts. If the chamois isn't the right mix of soft and supportive you'll be in all sorts of discomfort. We put the time in and obsessed over design details to create the most comfortable chamois with added Silvadur anti-microbial treatment. Add the Elite jersey from 100% recycled content and thicky cycling jacket for the ideal riding combination.
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