{"id":112035,"date":"2025-09-03T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112035\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:41:09","slug":"assos-latest-long-sleeve-jersey-includes-one-of-the-most-bonkers-features-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112035\/","title":{"rendered":"Assos’ latest long sleeve jersey includes one of the most bonkers features I\u2019ve ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the seasons change this time of year, the Cyclingnews team’s respective inboxes are often inundated by various brands\u2019 latest autumn\/winter (or fall\/winter for those of you across the pond) collections. Very often it\u2019s just fresh colourways, which in recent years have homogenised slightly into a sea of lovely muted tones befitting of the season\u2026 where did all that neon go from 2014, eh?<\/p>\n

Now, before I get into this brief showcase, I\u2019d like to say that, in general, I love Assos gear, and in particular, its winter kit. They are wordily named, but the Equipe R Habu<\/a> and Johdah winter jackets<\/a> are the best I\u2019ve ever tested, and the Equipe R Spring Fall LS Jersey S11<\/a> is sensational.<\/p>\n

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With this in mind, I opened up Assos\u2019 latest collection for the upcoming cold and gloom with some excitement, only to be met with perhaps one of the more bizarre features I\u2019ve seen this year: a sunglasses storage loop on the upper right arm.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve spent ages testing the best cycling glasses<\/a> on the market, both in high summer and in the grizzly dark months where clear lenses are a must. It\u2019s true that not all of them sit nicely in helmet vents, but there is a hierarchy of places you can put them as an alternative, starting with on the back of your head, then with the arms folded over down the back of your jersey (my preference at all times, as it happens).<\/p>\n

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While I rate a lot of Assos winter gear, this feature is daft (Image credit: Assos)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m yet to find a pair of cycling glasses that can\u2019t be stowed in one of these three ways, so to see a solid loop stitched into a jersey to stow them rather clumsily on the front of the arm, where I suspect they will flap around and are more likely to get covered in detritus from the front wheel if one is riding without mudguards, is quite silly.<\/p>\n

In Assos’ defence, it doesn’t actively promote this stitched loop as a glasses-storage feature beyond the occasional image of its use as one. It instead focused on the products’ other innovations, such as the new, highly insulating POLAR textile found in the GT Spring Fall Bib Tights C2 (another mouthful, I know), which uses 50% recycled fibres; and the longer list of available colourways for the GT Spring Fall Jersey C2.<\/p>\n

It’s also far from the most egregious \u2018innovation for the sake of innovation\u2019 that the bike industry has ever seen, and in use, it won’t negatively affect the jersey’s performance. It will probably just become an unused tab.<\/p>\n

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Compared to some of the biggest tech flops<\/a> \u2013 the likes of Vittoria\u2019s reversible tyres \u2013 it\u2019s pretty tame. It isn\u2019t even the most daft way we\u2019ve seen of storing one’s sunglasses.<\/p>\n

That particular accolade must go to the Koo Billy Clip, a stem-mounted aftermarket mount that allowed you to store your sunglasses not in a neat, aerodynamic way about your person, but plonked atop your stem.<\/p>\n

Early editions of Koo glasses famously didn’t fold, but instead rotated about their hinge through 180 degrees. This created a neat closure, but was largely impossible to do quickly, while riding, or one-handed. It’s solution, the Billy, never caught on, and thankfully, more recent editions of Koo’s cycling glasses have adopted a typical hinge.<\/p>\n

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The Koo Billy Clip takes the prize for the most ridiculous way to store your sunglasses however. (Image credit: Koo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the seasons change this time of year, the Cyclingnews team’s respective inboxes are often inundated by various…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-112035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}