I just received the new NoPinz Hypersonic Suit with the new base layer, and the base layer is raising a ton of questions.
I understand, that after the ban of rigid protrusions ON a jersey or skin suit have been banned by the UCI (see Encapsulator suit) in 2019, the best alternative was using seams to generate the same effect around the upper arms and lower legs.
The idea is to turn laminar into turbulent airflow, to have it attach longer to the limbs, that are upright and cylindrical, which is awful for aerodynamics.
Now, the new cool trick is to use a textured base layer, with a super thin, tight and smooth suit over top of it.
What I expected is, that the textures are a lot more pronounced than the seams on typical Aero socks and sleeves or TT suits, and therefore create greater turbulence and thereby less drag (I am not a physicist, if you didn’t realize by now 
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Basically this:
Now, after a lot of bloviating, I unpacked the base layer and the stripes are relatively far apart and actually rather “flat”.
Side by side with the base layer from Rule 28, it’s even extremely difficult to show it protrude at all:
I put the skin suit over the base layer, and even with a lot of fiddling, a lot of the sleeve remains “untouched”:
Regarding the strips: they are quite a bit further apart on the Nopinz, than on the R28:
R28 has done some testing in that, and found, that the width they chose was faster than a wider width:
Of course NoPinz have done testing, showing the Rule28 base layer performs poorly on their suit.
I am caught in marketing Limbo, and probably none of this will mean anything, and I’ll have to conduct my own testing. Just wanted to let you in on my thought process in all of this, and show you the products and their differences.