My gears for the Autumn season 🍂
My default outfit
Where I live, Toulouse, France 🇫🇷, the Autumn season is synonym with chilled temperatures in the morning (6°C to 10°C), and warm after-noon (18°C to 22°C), it often means that I am wearing different clothes for the back and forth trips.
My rule is simple: I am keeping the short until the temperature is above 8°C, that’s my limit of comfort. Your mileage may vary.
Usually, my default outfit will look like this:
- Long sleeve insulated jacket: Rapha’s “Men’s Pro Team Winter Jacket" (archive): It is a nice jacket because it is warm without being a windbreaker, your body can breathe like a charm: I actually like the bit of cold air flowing through the fabric, I hate being sweaty.
- Bib Short
- Short, such as Rapha’s Trail Lightweight shorts (archive), which is excellent for mountain biking!
- Assos Spring Fall gloves (archive)
Cold morning
- A Merino base layer such as Icebreaker’s “Oasis 200" or Rapha’s equivalent (archive)
- A very thin Merino beanie (archive), it doesn’t protect my ears, it is just to not have too much loss of warmness from my head.
- Long sleeve insulated jacket: Rapha’s “Men’s Pro Team Winter Jacket" (archive): It is a nice jacket because it is warm without being a windbreaker, your body can breathe like a charm: I actually like the bit of cold air flowing through the fabric, I hate being sweaty.
- Classic Tights
- Assos Spring Fall gloves (archive)
Sunny afternoon
- Simple short sleeve jersey (archive)or teeshirt (archive)
- Bib Short
- Short, such as Rapha’s Trail Lightweight shorts (archive), which is excellent for mountain biking!