Skinsuit recommendations?

Equipment
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I’m after my first ever skinsuit. I’m between a few.

Assos Le Houdini S11 - love the look

Nopinz Sonic RR - love the price

Nopinz Hypersonic RR - assume it’s faster than the Sonic

Van Rysel - RCR-R obviously very good value, RCR-F presumably faster but I don’t like the design.

I’m in the UK and need something that will post today, as I have an event this weekend.

I’m 77kg and 183cm. I’d pick M & tall for Nopinz, and just M seems to be good for the Assos. I’ve not looked in depth at VR options yet.

Any comments appreciated!

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Bought Houdini & Hypersonic, will see which fits best :man_shrugging:

I assume the comments will now flow in telling me why both are poor choices :rofl:

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I’m biased but always recommend Galibier stuff for UK/Irish based cycling…

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Certainly well-priced! I have some of their socks and gloves, wouldn’t have occurred to me that they were a brand that offered this sort of thing.

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With the NoPinz, its not as simple as which one is faster.

They are differently priced, but also have a different target operating window.

If you can manage the Hypersonic window, go for that one. Else go for the Sonic

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I did wonder about that. You think the HS actually performs worse than the S if you’re going at a slower speed? Is this about density of arm-ribs or something?

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If it requires a certain windspeed then yea its possible for the sonic to perform better.

But I doubt its a cliff edge drop in performance. You would imagine its a scalable effect

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As it is I’ve decided to send the HS back without even trying it on, the Assos fit like a (pretty tight) glove, and I prefer the not-all-black look.

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The Assos one looks great to be fair.

Im stuck with NoPinz as my club uses them for the custom clothing

Interested to look at the VR one though. Have a few of there jerseys and considering the price, I cant fault them.

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FWIW I “won” my event (a sportive) by over 30 minutes, so I’m not sure it was £350 well spent, I’d have been perfectly content winning by 25 minutes :rofl:

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haha, well you have the skinsuit now, get into some TTs

When you said event, I thought you meant a TT or Crit :sweat_smile:

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It probably made your initial gap more demoralizing.

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Nah, just a local sportive that I thought (based on times of a similar route from last year) I could maybe smash. I knew nothing would be sadder than giving it my all and losing by a minute though, so threw some money at the problem so I wouldn’t be at home today thinking “balls, if only I’d <x/y/z>”. My bike is far from a slippery aero beast though, so maybe that’s needed for next year. For now, enough skinny tyres, time to get back on the MTB some more.

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Lolz, funny you should say that. As I rode off near the start of the ride I did think “better make this look convincing, break their spirit” as I knew I was facing hours of headwind by myself and if a group of 4 tried they’d certainly reel me in :rofl:

(FWIW they didn’t know of the 'suit though, it was cold so I was able to hide my shame with a windproof for the first 10k :grin:)