PEdALED joins number of kit makers vying for "adventure" market

Crossing Europe in the Transcontinental Race, professional races with Britain’s oldest team, JLT Condor, and exploring Kyrgyzstan during the first Silk Road mountain - from these experience, PEdALED has gathered up what it has learned and introduced the Odyssey Collection to their growing line up of kit.

Founded in Tokyo, Japan in 2007 by Hideto Suzuki, the Odyssey Collection offers a jacket, bib, jersey, socks and gilet geared specifically for going the distance on epic rides. Full review in a couple weeks.

What this core collections needs is more cargo

Sure, when they were Initially released people called them ridiculous, but take a look around recent kit releases from CDC, PedalED and Rapha and pockets on bib shorts have quickly become ubiquitous - both among adventure cyclists and riders simply looking to schlep a couple extra bits on weekend rides.

For Spring, Rapha brings cargo functionality to their Core range, applying the same layout to bibs that excel on most ride types. These come complete with mesh pockets much like the Explore range - - capacity to take whatever you like up top. A full review in the weeks to come.