Adidas launches new winter cycle clothing collection with jackets, tights, jerseys and baselayers

Winter is fast approaching, and so adidas has sent us details of its new winter cycle clothing range. The company has slowly been making inroads back into the cycling market in recent years; we’ve tested some of its new garments and been impressed, and it’s now offering a full winter outfit.

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The belgements range, as it’s called, has been designed to provide protection in the worst conditions while retaining an aerodynamic race fit that we’ve seen in some of the previously tested adidas cycle clothing. adidas recruited Berlin-based race team 8 Bar to put the new kit through its paces, and the team is featured in the company’s promotional photography.

What do we have then? Well ,there’s the adidas adistar belgements jacket for men and women, costing £140 and £135 respectively, a jersey (£95), bib tights (£150) and the netz.werk base layer (£35), all available for men and women.

Here’s an overview of some of the features and details.

The adistar belgements jacket is made from PrimaLoft Sport material to cold weather insulation, with a body-hugging fit and a DWR coating to repel rain. It has zipped front vents, a tall collar and rear zip pocket. It’s light, just 335g claimed weight.

adidas used the spring classics, long one-day races held in typically inhospitable weather, as inspiration for the design of the belgements range, and there are plenty of extra details that should help this jacket deal with such bad weather. The lower part of the rear jacket has a splash guard, using a DWR treatment, to prevent rear wheel road spray saturating that area of the jacket.

The belgements bib tights are made from a MITI hollow-fibre Thermodream fabric sourced from Italy with a brushed-back soft shell fabric, providing wind resistance and insulation. There are reflective dots and logos on the lower legs and stirrups loop around the feet.

The belgements long sleeve jersey is made from a 4-way stretch, wind-blocking fleece fabric with DWR finish in the front-facing panels. It’s a compression fit jersey designed to provide a body-hugging shape, with jet wing-inspired leading and trailing edges intended to improve aerodynamics.

There are mesh underarm inserts to improve breathability and three rear pockets and a water resistant zipped pocket.

Lastly, there’s the new netz.werk sleeveless baselayer. A good baselayer provides the solid foundation for the rest of your clothing layers. This one is made from a polypropylene mesh material with a one size fits most approach to sizing. It’ll have to be quite stretchy to accommodate such variation in body sizes and shapes.

It all looks quite good, and we'll hopefully get some of it in for review soon.

See the full range at www.adidasspecialtysports.co.uk