2022 CYCLING ACCESSORIES

March 17, 2022 By Paula Dyba Leave a Comment

Every season we raise the bar for our accessory team. Best in class cycling products, best new items for women, hard to find solutions that improve the ride and easy to use are the criteria we use to evaluate the sea of on body/on bike treasures.

And the awards for best cycling accessories for 2022 go to…

ON THE BODY

Sunglasses

Riding In Parallel – with interchangeable lenses

Best new shield for cyclists – Tifosi Rail

Alliant interchangeable shields are a steal

Sledge Lite with maximum (pink) coverage

Parallel with polarized blue mirror lenses for unparalleled clarity

$30 Swank – 2 tortoise shell options

Helmets

Persist pays off when it comes to comfortable straps & anti-bug vents

Rapido – best value ($100!) in new high viz

Viantor MIPS – best Italian styling & huge ponytail port

Best deal in a trail helmet – $80 Convoy

Radix MIPS – most versatile & best use of dots

Merit with new spherical MIPS for highest impact protection

Gloves

NEW Touring Gel Glove with innovative articulated palm

Soleil SF glove – best 3D palm fit against handlebars

Soleil FF for lightweight full UPF coverage

T-Glove LTD in 20+ prints!

Rosso Corsa with the world’s most innovative palm structure

Roubaix – Castelli’s most padded glove for women

Footwear

Lightest T-5 Air for Road & Tri

Best Road Shoe value – $100 Stylus

Most universal fit: Multi Air Flex II (coming in April)

Good Riddance for Bad@!% Girls

ON THE BIKE

New Butterfly LTD for extra Zoom

A flotilla of the Purist water bottles you can find

Best compact handlebar bag – Kinga (coming in April)

Topo Designs Frame Bags maximize on-bike packability

ON THE GO

Mountain Gear Bag holds it ALL

Cyclo Cube organizes it ALL

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