Club Kit – Club Kit 2025

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Club Kit 2025

Kit Secretary’s Recommendation

1 – Stolen Goat
RCC should work with a responsive local UK supplier team with an in-house design unit, a brand that has a bit of an edge, gets the details right, and a supports the cycling eco-system in our region.
Aligns with club survey preferences for quality, fit and style over budget pricing.

2 – Bioracer
In my opinion, the best of the upper/mid-range suppliers, with good sporting-focused, technical kit for Northern Europe, and flexible ordering arrangements.
“Long” sizing option addresses club members concerns over fit.

3 – Kalas
The failsafe option already supplying many neighbouring clubs. No obvious drawbacks but with little to get excited about.

Also ran…

Sitting somewhere between Kalas and Castelli, but losing out on MoQs. I have concerns over sustainability of the UK distribution operation and UK pricing.

We’ve been here before. The kit is good but expensive, and sizing can be problematic to those not already familiar. Not easy to work with, MoQs uncompetitive, no individual ordering.

Responsive local contact, some good kit items, but all the risk of a new market entrant in a challenging commercial environment, long lines of communication, and pricing that is out-of-kilter with brand profile.

Kit Secretary’s Engagement Proposal

  1. Agree a kit design for 2025 (for March Committee decision)
  2. Agree any RCC club subsidy for initial order (for March Committee decision)
  3. Arrange kit fitting / sizing session (mid-March)
  4. Open a club order window (2 weeks end March/early April)
    1. Members pre-order and pre-pay on RCC online Store
      (Pre-Order feature requires Square subscription £15pm)
    2. RCC places a bulk order with kit supplier including club-financed top-up stock (Mid-April)
    3. RCC Kit Secretary receives the kit delivery and arranges member distribution
    4. RCC Kit Secretary handles any fit/sizing complications locally
  5. Members receive new kit around the end of May / early June

Kit Secretary’s Notes

– Supplier shortlisting, selection and kit sample reviews have been informed by the results of the RCC Kit 2025 Survey from Dec-2024
– Mens and Womens kit design – Take it as read that all suppliers on the shortlist provide women-specific cuts and design choices for all jerseys and shorts.
– Full product catalogue for each supplier is available here
– For jerseys I have looked for a “Good / Better / Best” spread that mirrors what we have taken in the past from Endura and Castelli.
– “Club” jersey will have a relaxed fit, with straight(-er) sides, often with wider, straight sleeves with a sewn hem (e.g. Endura Road Jersey) and made from a traditional loose-woven or knitted fabric. Ideal the more casual, café-focused rider.
– “Sport” jersey will have a more tailored, closer fit, and longer tapered sleeves with raw-cut hem or silicon gripper. Often made from a closer-woven fabric with a shinier finish and sometimes a shorter body fit (e.g. Endura FS-260 Pro, which was our biggest-seller across 2022-2024). For the club all-rounder with sporting pretensions.
– “Race” jersey will be tailored more tightly for a bodyline fit, tightly woven from a lighter-gauge yarn, with a shorter body length especially at the front and likely to have an open neckline with no collar (e.g. Endura Pro-SL). For brisk, fast and race-oriented riders.
– For bib-shorts I have looked at club and sports lines, with a race suit option for the fastest club riders
– Several suppliers offer a choice of pad in the same shorts
– Club models generally use a base-level pad, but can often be specified with a premium pad at extra cost.
– Sports models will generally use a premium pad, along with higher-elastic material for a tighter, more compressive fit.
– Pad uplift pricing can complicate MoQs
– Pad uplift can be as much as £30.
– Price lists and price comparison charts available here
– All pricing based on 10-20 units pricing point.
– Pricing charts show the price the club will pay, inclusive of VAT and any import duties, but may not include delivery for individual orders.
– Some suppliers price lists quote prices ex-VAT, others show inc VAT. For the latter, I’ve added VAT at 20% to price comparison charts
– RCC may choose to subsidise the cost to members
– RCC will make a small mark-up to cover costs of sale
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