Perfetto RoS Long-Sleeve
The benchmark hybrid — half jersey, half softshell, with real wind and rain protection. The piece the test press keeps crowning best overall, and they're not wrong.
The kit finder
Looking for a properly cool long sleeve? Start here.
Hand-picked kit by category. Every pick links straight to the brand — or to a curated dealer that carries it. If it's listed, we'd wear it.
Long sleeve jerseys
Mille GT Spring Fall LS Jersey C2
The comfort-cut option for exactly the shoulder seasons in its name. Typical Assos: nothing flashy, everything considered, lasts for years.
Pro Long Sleeve Jersey
Race cut with a brushed inner face — the one to pick if you want long-sleeve warmth without giving up the fast silhouette.
Bib shorts
Mille GTS S11
Our all-round benchmark: floating chamois, endurance-leaning fit, and the reason "just get the Assos" is a complete sentence in most group rides.
Team Bib Evo
The race pick — serious compression, one of the best chamois in the business on hot long days, and it looks like MAAP, which is half the point.
Espresso Bib Short
The value-premium pick: noticeably cheaper than the race flagships, built for everyday riding rather than podiums, and part of Castelli's best-looking line in years.
Caps
5 Panel Nylon Cap
The under-helmet cap done the MAAP way: technical nylon instead of cotton, clean panels, no shouting. Also the rare cap that survives rain without collapsing.
Cycling Cap
The reference casquette — cotton, contrast underside on the flipped-up peak, and the piece that quietly built the whole modern road-style movement.
Cotton Casquette
The French take: softer colours, seasonal prints, made for the coffee stop as much as the climb. Their cap wall is worth a browse on its own.
Socks
Classics
The Berlin sock specialists' core line: high-compression Prolen knit, reinforced heel and toe, solid colours that go with any kit. The default answer to "which socks?".
Light Merino Silk
The upgrade pick: merino-silk blend for shoulder-season rides — warm when damp, no smell after three wears, and quietly luxurious in a way only your feet will know.
Team Sock
Race-height, logo done right, and the easiest way to tie a mixed kit together. Colour-matches most of the MAAP range if you're already committed.
Eyewear
Advanced_Optics Halo
The headline act of MAAP's brand-new eyewear line: rimless, a sweeping curved lens, under 22 grams, swappable bright- and low-light lenses. The drop of the summer.
Advanced_Optics Fuse
The full-wrap option from the same launch — translucent smoke-grey frame, built for changing light on road and gravel. More protection, same design language.
Advanced_Optics Gerson
The off-bike silhouette: lightweight acetate, classic shape. For the version of you that locks the bike outside the café and stays a while.
Jackets & gilets
Alpha 150 Jacket
The deep-winter statement piece from our Drop Radar — built on Polartec AirCore and billed by Castelli as its ultimate winter jacket. For the coldest rides you'll actually do.
Core Gilet
The gilet to buy first: windproof front, packs to nothing, priced at the sane end of Rapha. Lives in a jersey pocket from September to May.
Mille GT Wind Vest
The long-running Swiss answer: superb fabric, comfort cut over layers, zero drama. The vest for riders who'd rather feel it than show it.