Rapha is aware of that for a lot of girls, historically tight-fitting biking gear is just not all the time probably the most snug approach to costume to journey. So to encourage extra girls to really feel assured on the bike, they developed a extra inclusive and sometimes occasions extra modest, vary of heat climate efficiency girls’s biking gear. Sure, it contains the first-ever cycling-specific hijab. However there’s additionally some extra frequent clothes gadgets seen in activewear off the bike. Like a brand new skort with a premium biking chamois (and cargo pocket) inside. And an prolonged lengthy jersey and padded lengthy pants that merely ship further protection.
Rapha ‘That is How We Trip‘ inclusive girls’s biking equipment
Rapha’s new girls’s biking clothes assortment is “designed by girls riders for girls riders”. The concept is to interrupt down limitations that maintain some girls from getting on the bike within the first place.
Their new inclusive girls’s clothes marketing campaign is named: ‘That is How We Trip‘. All of the traditional jersey & shorts favorites are nonetheless there, simply now with extra choices for riders on the lookout for a unique approach to present their on-the-bike model.
“For too lengthy, girls in biking have been ignored, undervalued and made to journey and put on equipment that limits self-expression. Rapha is decided to assist change that narrative and strives to create biking attire that makes all riders really feel empowered, snug and assured.
Designed from the bottom up by an all-female staff, Rapha Girls is a brand new and expanded vary of ladies’s using attire developed by years of analysis. The result’s a spread of all-new and distinctive silhouettes, together with the Girls’s Padded Skort, Girls’s Rapha Wind Gilet, Girls’s Rapha Jersey, Girls’s Rapha Wind Jacket, Girls’s Cropped Cargo Prime and Girls’s Common Cargo Shorts, to supply extra choices for self-expression to girls on the bike.”
This new Rapha Girls launch is a continuation of the British model’s “dedication to additional promote and develop girls’s biking”. We’ve seen a number of women-specific Rapha collaborations over time, from professional biking to trend, to the playful spirit with Outside Voices.
“It was actually thrilling to tackle a mission like this and work with an all-women staff to create an entire new assortment that permits girls to specific themselves and really feel snug and assured on the bike… We’re persevering with to work on tasks and improvements that open up the game for girls, so that is only the start!”
– Lauren Hunt, Rapha Girls’s Attire Designer
And once more on the finish of this summer time, the largest international annual girls’s biking occasion – the Rapha Girls’s 100 – will once more encourage girls around the globe to return collectively to journey 100km on that Sunday. This yr would be the twelfth working of the Girls’s 100.
What’s new?
“The gathering contains Rapha’s first vary of modest put on developed alongside London-based biking collective Cycle Sisters, an award-winning charity which conjures up and allows Muslim girls to cycle.” That features the headline-grabbing hijab. However there’s additionally a brand new Lengthy Jersey and Padded Driving Trousers that maximize rider efficiency and heat climate consolation. And but, they nonetheless ship the additional protection that may assist get extra girls on the bike.
The brand new Padded Skort and Cropped Zip Tank high go the opposite path, choosing much less protection, however with model. They’re nearly giving girls extra choices for a way they appear when using. As a result of not everybody all the time needs to really feel like they’re aspiring to be a highway racer. Some cyclists simply need to journey their bikes, and really feel good on the similar time.
2024 Rapha Girls’s Inclusive Biking Package
The brand new $120 / 115€ Rapha Girls’s Padded Skort is available in black or blue & 6 sizes (XXS-XL). It options Rapha’s award-winning girls’s chamois pad & a cargo pocket on the suitable leg. The brand new $100 / 90€ Cropped Cargo Prime will get black or sea inexperienced and 6 sizes. It’s a short-fit tee, massive on rear pocket storage. Not almost as crop-top brief because the full-zip $75 / 68€ Cropped Zip Tank with its zippered rear necessities pocket. Or the $90 / 80€ Half Zip Tank with extra material, so extra rear pocket storage.
Within the modest line-up, the brand new $45 / 40€ Rapha Girls’s Hijab is available in dusted blue, mushroom grey, or black. Absolutely overlaying a rider’s head and neck, it’s comprised of a lightweight 100% recycled polyester with a mesh neck panel for max breathability. And naturally, it suits comfortably beneath a helmet. The $135 / 125€ Lengthy Jersey in 6 sizes and mushroom grey or black, is solely an extended minimize extending previous the hips. It encompasses a half zip, backed by a mesh panel for air flow with out exposing pores and skin. Then, new Rapha Girls’s Padded Driving Trousers are $240 / 222€ technical lengthy biking pants in 3 colours. With a barely unfastened however tailor-made on-the-bike match, they promise consolation, full vary of pedaling motion, and a little bit of water-repellant climate safety.
The newest $120/ 115€ Rapha Girls’s Jersey is available in jeweled blue, sea inexperienced, or black. There’s additionally an up to date Wind Gilet (vest) for $135 / 125€ in jeweled blue or tan. And a brand new $190 / 170€ Wind Jacket in those self same two colours. Plus, there’s an up to date pair of Rapha Girls’s Common Cargo Shorts for $179 / 160€ in darkish navy blue or traditional black.
The entire new Rapha Girls’s assortment can be found now.
