@gembo headband with lots of colours and squares - be ok for the turbo ha ha
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Galibier cycling apparel worth a try
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Nice kit! Inspired by the dreadful weather I decided to treat myself to an insulated gilet and you can never have too many headbands.
Quite fancied the Colombiere jacket but decided it was a bit overkill...
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@mcairmey hope you told them you were socially influenced by Bill.
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I am easily influenced and suggestible!
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I don’t need kit. Well the caratti galoshes yes. Bu5 am buying for a better future. Galibier gear if yo7 pay for postage arrives next day
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Glad people are happy with their purchases.
@gembo I think that most of the recent influencing is your work!
I suspect that the main reason I am enjoying my recent commutes in rain, snow and sleet is largely thanks to the Mistral jacket. I don't mind that weather if I am warm. (Though I mind when the roads are slippy)
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My Izoard gilet and snood arrived today along with a handwritten postcard. If anyone knows the guy in charge pass on my chapeau and I suspect Illl be trialling the hokey tomorrow given the forecast
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Galibier released a new jacket COURCHEVEL STORM JACKET. Might be a bit of an overkill for most of the year but looks good for autumn-winter. It doesn't look too bikey either so would be useful for non-bike outside time.
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Oh @bill you are influencing me you dreadful cyclist.
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Their new Mistral Pro has ten per cent off for the first fifty purchases. But it is their dearest item of kit at 84 pounds. Funny neckline, bit low, but ok with a Buff.
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LOL @IWARTS ;D I am not trying to advertise them or anything but actually got excited about this new jacket. Thinking of getting one for Mr Bill (this or Colombiere)
I went for sunrise walks the last two mornings and people say it was cold. I was wearing my Mistral jacket and I don't what what these people are on about. I was nice and warm.
I was chatting yesterday to a cyclist based in Canada and he exclusively wears Galibier. He commutes 600k a week when not winter (in winter he rides trails etc), so that tells me something as well :)
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What is 'non-bike outside time'?
Posted 3 years ago # -
Caratti the hyper functional very basic kit company do bib longs with pad for 45 pounds I use their 8 pound galoshes.
Keep waiting for Galibier to send me a loyalty discount code like Victory Chimp did
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What is 'non-bike outside time'?
@IWARTS when Uplander (?or Overlander?) is at @gembo's towers?Posted 3 years ago # -
The OVERLIT Sunlander has been retrieved. I have @gembo's shoes. Tell no one.
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Idly flicking through Galibier bib shorts on their website and noticed a rave review from someone claiming to have bought them under the social media influence of someone called 'bill'...
I might just get some, if they come with that recommendation. I am still very taken with my Mistral jacket, which kept me extremely comfortable in today's driving rain and headwinds, with just a Decathlon base layer underneath.
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Yes Bill has quite an all reaching influence I find I am buying biblongs this Thursday from Galibier, once I am paid.
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If they've sold out, it will be because I've just bought a pair, as I realised today that my Decathlon longs are reaching the end of their natural life...
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I was wondering about the warmer ones with the membrane or the ones that are just roubaix fabric.
Hoping will be too warm for the former
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I have gone for the warmer ones, to replace my Decathlon membrane ones. I shall report back in due course (which may be in winter 21/22...)
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I am tending towards the other pair then
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On Sunday morning I passed someone wearing a Mistral jacket. That's the fourth one spotted around Edinburgh.
I purchased a COURCHEVEL STORM JACKET size L for Mr Bill and IZOARD WINTER GLOVES size M for myself. Both too big so now waiting for the replacement. They came with free Merino socks (FIRE FEET 2) and regular socks (ARDENNES SOCKS).
(I go for the free delivery as I factor in sending the items back)
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I hope those SOCKS aren't unbearably uncomfortable.
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I tried to buy my Galibier biblongs but almost as a premonition from @Greenroofer they are all gone now until the autumn.
I then thought what the heck get the pair they are modelled on Endura FS260 thermo bibtight.
Endura also provide a zip at the front as well as ankle zips so better plus I am a medium in Endura though they are 99 British pounds
Alas that size is sold out across all retailers.
Going to be shorts for me from early in the season it would appear
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I wore my Ardennes leg warmers for the first time today. They are superb. Very comfortable - no pressure on my thighs but they didn't slip at all. Coped well with a range of temperatures.
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My purchases have arrived and been returned as they were too small: both bibs and biblongs seemed a bit short in the body. However they seemed very promising, so have gone for the next size up in each.
Also had to send back a very snazy cap: although it was XL it wasn't as XL as their other XL cap that I already have and was therefore too small for my enormous head and thick skull/large brain.
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@greenroofer if it is not too personal a question, what size was too small?
I went for large as I find I am large in most non Italian sizes, large castelli too but they were tight but in a sale. So the large bibs I have for summer do fit me.
Endura though plough a Scottish furrow and I am medium
The reviews for the deep winter tights did often mention the shortness of leg
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@gembo Happy to share my vital statistics if it helps people get the right size.
I am 5ft 10in, 163lb, waist 31in, BMI 23.5, inside leg 31in. I can't remember my chest measurement (mainly because it's disappointingly smaller than when I did a lot of caving and climbing and could do one-armed pull-ups), but my proportions are now consistent with someone who gets most of their exercise on a bike. I count myself as being very 'medium' in normal clothes, without being aware of any particular issues with having a long torso or long legs.
Anyway, I ordered Medium in the Mistral tights and the Peloton bibs and found both too short in the body so the shoulder straps were really tight and I felt compressed vertically. They weren't obviously tight round the waist. I concur that the Mistral legs were on the short side.
I do find the same problem with Decathlon kit - for some of their bike stuff I am a Medium and for some I am a Large, but less so with their other stuff.
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I received my replacement storm jacket medium and izogard gloves small. The jacket still too large for Mr Bill. Hopefully can replace for small. Also this time they added "Thermo+ skull cap". Don't know if that's by an accident or what but I am keeping it.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Road.cc just given the colombiere quilted jacket 9/10 not my style but usual very high spec for modest £72 pounds
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