Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Dress warmly! Road bike winter safety wear tested

There is no bad weather, there is only the wrong clothes" is an often cited proverb. If the temperatures fall into the single-digit range, you have to pull all the stops on the road bike in order not to cool down during longer trips - Gloves, helmets, safety vest and overall. There are matching products are therefore essential for road cyclists.

With the right equipment, passing through or a very early morning start into the new season is no problem. These include warm warmth, long-finger gloves and a cap under the helmet. For hardly anything can lessen the desire for cycling more than the attempt to switch with completely deaf fingers or kick with ice blocks into the crank.

This is why Road BIKE has 8 caps, reflective gloves and more and excess for the application range between 0 degrees and 10 degrees Celsius. This means that the heaters are not only suitable for the winter outing, but also provide good service during long pass-offs or training sessions in the spring and autumn.

Pleasing: A lot can be achieved with comparatively little money. For example, the cheapest combination of the test products with BBB cap, Gloves from Specialized and Value’s surplus costs only about 75 Euros. If you go in the full, however, can also easily spend four times.

To test all safety products, the RB testers said: Get out of the comfortably warm editorial offices, get out into the cold, often wet weather on the street in the last few weeks. At least 1 hour, products and test drivers had to endure.