Stealth bike tech of the year: Rule 28 aero base layer

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There are now 3 notable baselayers (R28, NoPinz, Huub), and Kalas has just announced a very similar suit, that is basically a 1 piece version of the baselayer + smooth suit.

I have a R28 Base layer that I’ve been wearing underneath mainly road race suits, and recently took delivery of a NoPinz hypersonic suit. I chose NoPinz because the Flowsuit has always tested fastest for me. I made a few observations and compared it to the R28 base layer right here:

A Time Trialing Thread

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 i…