Christian Vande Velde
Product talk, Video 8

Video: Garmin’s special weapon for epic mountain stages

Creating clothing for athletes at the highest level of the sport is the most demanding proving ground for Castelli. Ryder Hesledal will not only be reaping the benefits of his lightweight Cervélo R5ca bike on the epic Giro mountain stages, the super light weight and quick drying Castelli Inferno shorts and Climbers jersey gave him an extra advantage in the big mountains.

CLIMBERS JERSEY – its almost impossible to see the difference between the Garmin Aero Race jersey and the Climbers jersey on television. Made from our super light weight Strada Light 3D mesh, and an aero Velocity fabric, it’s cut to hug the torso and to eliminate any excess fabric flapping when battling into the wind. It’s 90 grams of next-to-nothing, our quickest drying jersey ever, and it gives up just 3 watts at 40 km/h compared to the Aero Race jersey.


Super light weight and fast drying Strada Light 3D mesh.

One of the jersey’s advantageous properties is that it hardly absorb water. After all, what good would a lightweight jersey be if it soaked up water like a standard cycling jersey. So it’s light whether wet or dry, and the fabric is knit as a mesh. This all but guarantees its coolness when you’re moving and can get some wind blowing over your body. A full length front zipper complements the jersey for maximum temperature regulation in hot weather.

INFERNO BIBSHORT – so light and cool that it’s scary. This past week was the racing debut of the new Inferno Bibshort, our coolest and lightest short we’ve ever made. Inferno is Italian for hell, and this short is made for those hellishly hot days. It features 7 different fabrics, each strategically located to give maximum cooling with adequate coverage, whether that be non-transparent fabrics in front and back, abrasion resistant fabric in contact with the seat, or minimal meshes through the bib straps, side panels, and lower legs.


Strategically located fabrics to give maximum cooling with adequate coverage.

All fabrics contain titanium dioxide, the active ingredient in sunscreen, which reflects the sun’s UV rays. But as some of these fabrics are fairly open meshes, we recommend sunscreen on the side and front of legs.

The Inferno bibshort uses the pro’s all-time favorite seatpad Progetto X2 Air seatpad. The Cervélo TestTeam and Garmin-Barracuda (Garmin-Cervélo) teams spend over three years testing and refining the Progetto X2 Air seatpad. Many prototypes and improvements later, its the all-time favorite choice of seatpad for many cyclists.


The Progetto X2 Air seatpad is seamless where it counts.


Perforated viscous comfort inserts have been added under the

highly sensitive ischial and perineal pressure areas.

The Progetto X2 Air seatpad is different from most multi-density crotch savers. Instead of a bunch of raised ridges settling against your skin, the skin-side surface of the seatpad is one smooth perforated foam layer to help ventilate and keep the nether regions cooler by allowing air to flow directly onto the surface fabric.

The multi-density cushion layer of the seatpad is on the other side of the foam – and created by carving away sections of a single block of uncompressed foam to create the different sections of cushion.

Dan Martin (Garmin-Sharp) talks about his favorite Castelli products, the Inferno Bibshorts, and SanRemo Speed Suit.

CLIMBER’S JERSEY
For:  Hot weather, epic mountain stages.
Advantages: very cool, very light, quick drying, almost as Aero as the Aero Race.
Available: Garmin-Sharp Replica and Castelli colors.

INFERNO BIBSHORT
For: Hot weather.
Advantage: coolest short we’ve ever made, lightweight, aero race fit and performance.
Available: Garmin-Sharp Replica and Castelli colors.


Ryder Hesjedal – Giro d’Italia 2012, stage 14


Christian Vande Velde – Giro d’Italia 2012, stage 13


Ryder Hesjedal – Giro d’Italia 2012, stage 13

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8 Comments

  • Bernhard says: May 22, 2012 at 18:15

    Cool and finally the secret of the new bibshorts is lifted.

    It’s fantastic, how you always show up with great innovations.
    Too bad, that we have to wait almost a year for this pieces.
    But I am quite sure, that you’ll still finetune them until the launch. ;)
    Must be an honor to be a Garmin-Barracuda rider these days and develope and finally benefit from the new pieces.

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  • TRuJi says: May 28, 2012 at 17:02

    Awesome products! They look great.

    I would like to purchase a climbers jersey, please could you let us know if it fits as an Aero Race Jersey, or as a Team Jersey?

    That information would be much appreciated in order to choose the correct size.

    Congrats for your continuous efforts in create and improve the best cycling appareal.

    Regards.

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  • Hammertime says: July 24, 2012 at 00:12

    Is sunscreen needed under the climber’s jersey?

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  • castelli says: July 26, 2012 at 15:34

    Use of sunscreen is recommended

    Reply
  • gearB says: January 30, 2013 at 15:48

    Hey Castelli, thanks for awesome products!

    But is the 2013 climbers jersey has a aero race fit? or Anatomic fit?

    Fit like Aero Race Jersey? or fit like a Team Jersey?

    PLEASE REPLY!! ;)

    (Inferno bib shorts shows aero race fit and performance.

    But climbers jersey didn’t shows about FIT)

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  • Castelli
    Castelli says: February 1, 2013 at 12:56

    Aero race fit, you won’t feel any fabric flapping in the wind when wearing this piece. Ciao!

    Reply
  • gearB says: February 4, 2013 at 15:54

    Thanks reply :)

    I mean ‘The same model with Castelli graphic climber’s jersey’.
    (Not a garmin team climber jersey.)

    The Castelli graphic model has a Aero Race Fit. Right?

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