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- Base fabric proposed
- Lightweight summer mesh
- Reason
- The fabric our bands set for races above 22 °C
Hot Weather Cycling Jersey Manufacturer: Short Sleeve Race Jerseys Above 22 °C
We develop hot weather cycling jerseys for races above 22 °C: a short sleeve race jersey drafted on the riding-position block of your project, with the back, side panels and sleeves proposed in lightweight summer mesh and the front in mid-weight stretch main body. A cycling cap in the same band can be developed alongside it.
Our buyers here are brand product leads who already carry a main-body race jersey and want its hot weather version, and the technical leads of federations, race teams and club race squads kitting out riders for summer criteriums and road races.
The mesh version is sampled and fit-signed on its own. Every strike-off is hand-stretched along the riding directions before the colour card is signed, and fine sponsor lines and small text are checked item by item on the mesh.
Send us your artwork and size chart, and we reply with a fabric-by-panel proposal and a sampling plan.
What you receive with every hot weather jersey:
- Its own sample and its own fit signature from the pattern maker.
- A stretch check for grin-through on every strike-off, written into the colour parameters.
- One D65 colour standard across the mesh panels and the main-body front, with a signed colour card for each base fabric.
- First sample within 5–7 days; the first 2 revision rounds carry no extra sampling fee.
- Fabrics certified to OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100.
Summer Cycling Jerseys and Caps for Races Above 22 °C
The hot weather jersey is the summer cycling jersey of our range: the short sleeve race jersey for the band above 22 °C. The cap sits in the same band, so a squad racing in that band wears two garments from us, the jersey and the cap.
Our four temperature bands set the garments and the fabric for each race in your calendar. Lightweight summer mesh is the fabric set for the band above 22 °C.
Between 16 and 22 °C the short sleeve jersey moves to mid-weight stretch main body, with a gilet or arm warmers added for descents.
Two kinds of buyer bring a hot weather brief to us:
- A brand product lead with a main-body race jersey in the line, already developed or in development, who adds a version for the hottest races of the season. The hot weather jersey starts from the same riding block and the same colour standard, so the two versions sit in one line.
- A federation or team technical lead dressing a squad for summer criteriums and road races, who needs the team print to read the same on mesh panels and on the main-body front, with every sponsor's name legible.
Name the race formats and bands in your calendar, and the feasibility review sets out the hot weather jersey and cap for the races above 22 °C.
The garments for every band, from this jersey to the windproof jacket, are on our race cycling apparel range page.
Fabric by Panel Above 22 °C: Mesh Back, Sides and Sleeves
The pattern maker reads your brief and names a base fabric for each panel of the hot weather jersey. That proposal goes into the fabric-by-panel sheet, and it becomes the specification once you confirm it.
The starting proposal for the band above 22 °C:
Side panels
- Base fabric proposed
- Lightweight summer mesh
- Reason
- The fabric our bands set for races above 22 °C
Sleeves
- Base fabric proposed
- Lightweight summer mesh
- Reason
- The fabric our bands set for races above 22 °C
Front
- Base fabric proposed
- Mid-weight stretch main body
- Reason
- Carries the chest print and the zip seam
Rear pocket bag
- Base fabric proposed
- Mid-weight stretch main body
- Reason
- A mesh pocket bag carrying load tends to lose the shape of its opening
This lightweight mesh cycling jersey proposal differs from the starting proposal on our main-body race jersey, where the front and sleeves are in main body and only the back and sides are in mesh. Above 22 °C the sleeves move to mesh as well, and the front stays in main body.
An all-mesh jersey, front included, is available as an option. The pattern maker proposes it when your brief asks for it, you confirm it, and the fabric-by-panel sheet names mesh on every panel. The front print then goes through the same two print checks on mesh as every other mesh panel.
The rear pocket bag.
The pattern maker draws the pocket bag in mid-weight stretch main body on the cutting diagram. If your brief asks for a mesh pocket bag, we develop it, and the fabric-by-panel sheet records it as a return risk.
A panel can also move after the print checks.
When grin-through shows on a mesh panel and the fix chosen is to cut that panel in main body, the fabric-by-panel sheet is updated and you confirm it again.
What you hold:
- The fabric-by-panel sheet, naming the base fabric of every panel, including the pocket bag.
- The cutting diagram, with the pocket bag drawn on it.
- Any mesh pocket bag request written in the sheet as a return risk.
The base fabrics are binary nylon-spandex in 88/12, 90/10 or 91/9. The lightweight summer mesh and the mid-weight stretch main body are two weights of the same binary blends.
Hot Weather Jersey Compared With the Main-Body and Aero Short Sleeve Jerseys
All three short sleeve jerseys start from the riding-position block of your project. They differ in fabric by panel, sleeves, checks and colour cards.
| Hot weather jersey | Main-body short sleeve jersey | Aero short sleeve jersey | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabric by panel, starting proposal | Mesh back, sides and sleeves; main-body front | Main-body front and sleeves; mesh back and sides | Panel seams run front to back, front kept as whole as possible; textured-surface knit on sleeves and shoulders on the fabric tier |
| Sleeves | Mesh | Main body | Longer, ending above the elbow, with a flat cuff finish |
| Fit check | Its own sample: four race fit points and one-hand pocket reach | Four race fit points and one-hand pocket reach | Race fit check plus aero items in your race position |
| Colour cards | Mesh card and main-body card | Main-body card and mesh card | Adds a textured-knit card on the fabric tier |
For a hot climate race jersey in the band above 22 °C, the hot weather jersey is the version we develop. Between 16 and 22 °C the brief moves to the main-body short sleeve jersey. The patterns and on-bike check of that jersey are on our race fit cycling jersey page. Seam placement and the aero tiers are on our aero cycling jersey development page.
One Riding Block, a Separate Sample and Its Own Fit Signature
The hot weather jersey uses the same riding-position block as the main-body summer jersey in your project. The pattern maker drafts no new pattern for it. The front length, back length, collar line and pocket line stay where the block puts them.
Its fabric by panel is different, so its fit is proven again on its own sample, cut and sewn in the mesh and main-body panels you confirmed.
On the bike, in the hot weather sample, the pattern maker checks five items with the rider held in race position:
- The hem stays down when the rider moves to the drops.
- The collar stays off the throat.
- The sleeve end lies flat on the upper arm.
- The shoulders move without restriction.
- One hand reaches the rear pocket opening without the rider sitting up.
The hot weather jersey has its own fit sign-off column in its own measurement report. All five items are listed there, each one marked pass or return, and a return names the panel to be changed. The pattern maker signs this column only after all five pass.
Size is signed separately: the sample technician takes every measuring point on your size chart from the sample. Until the report passes, the sample stays in the studio. The pattern maker changes the returned panel, and the revision log records which panel, what changed and why.
What you hold, in a project with both versions:
- A measurement report for the main-body summer jersey, with its fit signature.
- A measurement report for the hot weather jersey, with its own fit signature and every check item marked.
- The hot weather sample in the sample set.
How the riding block is drafted and graded is covered on our race fit cycling jersey page.
Send Your Artwork and Size Chart for a Mesh Feasibility Review
Send your artwork with every sponsor name and the smallest text on the jersey, plus your size chart. A complete brief gets the development manager's answer within 48 hours: whether we can develop it to your specification, the pattern and fabric direction, and the next sampling step.
Request a feasibility reviewHot Weather Cycling Jersey Specification
- Garment
- Short sleeve race jersey for races above 22 °C
- Pattern
- Same riding-position block as the main-body summer jersey in your project
- Fabric by panel
- Starting proposal: lightweight summer mesh on back, side panels and sleeves; mid-weight stretch main body on the front; all-mesh as an option; confirmed by you
- Rear pocket bag
- Mid-weight stretch main body, drawn on the cutting diagram
- Fabric blend
- Binary nylon-spandex in 88/12, 90/10 or 91/9
- Fabric certification
- OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100
- Seams
- Flatlock in contact zones, four-thread overlock on main body joins
- Decoration
- Full sublimation, heat transfer, embroidery, reflective print or strip, silicone embossing
- Sizing
- Graded to your size chart and size range; men's and women's versions on separate base blocks
- Fit check
- Four race fit points and one-hand reach to the rear pocket, signed by the pattern maker for this version
- Colour
- Mesh and main-body strike-offs under D65, stretch check for grin-through, fine-line check on mesh, a signed colour card per base fabric
- Development
- First sample in 5–7 days; first 2 revision rounds with no extra sampling fee
- Companion garment
- Cycling cap in the same band
One D65 Colour Standard Across the Mesh and the Main-Body Front
Lightweight summer mesh counts as a separate base fabric. It is printed on a strike-off of its own and signed on a colour card of its own, and the main-body front gets a second card. The two cards are matched to one colour standard under D65.
At the D65 colour-matching area of our development studio, the colour and print technician sublimates your artwork onto a mesh strike-off and a main-body strike-off, then brings both to your colour standard. Each fabric ends with one physical colour card, signed. The colour parameters for both fabrics are written into the spec pack.
Mesh card
Main-body card
The mesh and the main body are both binary nylon-spandex. One fibre family takes sublimation dye and recovers from stretch in the same way, which is why one colour standard can be matched on both fabrics of the jersey.
Colour cards count by base fabric.
A set that already holds a signed mesh card, from a main-body jersey with mesh back and sides or from a cap, reuses it, and the hot weather jersey adds no new mesh card.
Both base fabrics carry OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 certification. Our development work, strike-offs included, runs under ISO 9001:2015.
Two Print Checks on Mesh Before the Colour Card Is Signed
Full sublimation on lightweight mesh gets two checks from the colour and print technician at the strike-off stage. Both are done before the colour card is signed, so any fix is made while the print is still on a strike-off.
The stretch check for grin-through.
The technician takes the mesh strike-off and the main-body strike-off to the D65 colour-matching area and stretches each one by hand along the directions a jersey is pulled in race position:
- Across the shoulders.
- Across the upper back.
- Along the upper arms.
On each stretch the technician looks for the white base showing through the print.
Where it shows, the technician proposes one of three fixes for that zone:
- 1. Deepen the ground colour in that zone.
- 2. Move the fine detail of the artwork away from the high-stretch zone.
- 3. Cut that panel in mid-weight stretch main body, which updates the fabric-by-panel sheet.
At rest
Stretched by hand
You confirm the fix. Only then is the colour card signed. The result of the stretch check is written into the notes of the colour parameters, zone by zone: where white showed, the fix chosen and your confirmation.
The fine-line check.
When full sublimation is printed on mesh, lines and text finer than the mesh openings break up. On the mesh strike-off, the technician checks each fine element of your artwork one by one: fine lines and small text, sponsor names included.
An element too fine for the mesh gets one of two proposals:
- Thicken it to a weight the mesh holds.
- Move it to the main-body front.
On an all-mesh jersey, a fine element is thickened.
Each change is drawn on the placement sheet, element by element, and you confirm it.
What you read in the spec pack:
- The colour parameter notes, with the stretch check result for the shoulders, upper back and upper arms, and the fix you confirmed for any zone where white showed.
- The placement sheet, with every thickened or moved element and its new position.
- Two signed colour cards, mesh and main body.
Blend, Decoration and Men's and Women's Versions You Choose
Three further choices set your hot weather jersey. Each one lands in the spec pack.
Fabric blend.
The mesh and main-body fabrics come in one of three binary nylon-spandex blends: 88/12, 90/10 or 91/9.
Decoration.
The jersey takes any of our decoration methods:
- Full sublimation across every panel, mesh and main body.
- Heat transfer.
- Embroidery.
- Reflective print or reflective strip.
- Silicone embossing, including the gripper at the hem.
Every position is drawn on the placement sheet, with the fine elements already checked on the mesh strike-off.
Men's and women's versions.
A men's and a women's hot weather jersey are drafted on separate base blocks, and grading follows the size chart and size range you confirm. If your main-body summer jersey is already drafted in both versions, each hot weather version starts from the matching block and gets a sample and fit signature of its own.
When a choice is disputed, the pattern maker rules on fit, your confirmed size chart rules on size and your signed colour standard rules on colour. The development manager takes any disagreement back to you, and a specification you confirmed stays as you confirmed it.
Cycling Cap in the Same Band, Matched to the Jersey's Cards
The cycling cap belongs to the band above 22 °C with the hot weather jersey, and we develop it as part of the same set.
Panels.
The crown split, and the choice of mesh or main body for each crown panel, is the pattern maker's proposal; once you confirm it, the fabric-by-panel sheet records it.
Brim.
A soft brim that flips up, or a stiffer brim. You choose.
Sweatband.
In one of the base fabrics of your set, confirmed by you.
Fit.
To the head-size chart you confirm, or one size.
Decoration.
Front, side or back panels, brim top or brim underside, in sublimation or embroidery, drawn on the placement sheet.
Colour.
A cap cut in fabrics the jersey already uses is printed to the colour cards already signed for the jersey. A new base fabric gets its own strike-off and its own signed card.
Hot Weather Jersey Files in Your Spec Pack
The hot weather jersey enters your spec pack as its own garment. When the project also has a main-body summer jersey, the two versions are listed separately, each with its own files.
The files the hot weather jersey adds:
- Cutting diagram, with the pocket bag drawn on it.
- Graded pattern.
- Fabric-by-panel sheet, naming mesh or main body for each panel.
- Placement sheet, with fine-line changes marked.
- Size chart.
- Seam description.
- The hot weather sample in the sample set.
Colour.
Mesh card
Main-body card
The mesh and main-body colour cards and their parameters, including the stretch check notes. A card already signed for the set is reused, and only a new base fabric adds one.
Revision log.
Every entry names the garment, the panel changed, what changed and why. A change to a specification you already confirmed opens a new sampling round, and it is logged the same way.
The pack is ready for production. The files, colour parameters and revision log are handed to you in full and archived per project, so next season's hot weather jersey starts from the same pack. Your jersey files are used for your project only, and an NDA can be signed before development starts.
What to Send for a Hot Weather Jersey Feasibility Review
Send what you have. Each item makes the review more specific.
Add what you have:
- Your size chart, the size range, and whether you need a men's version, a women's version or both.
- The race formats and temperature bands in your calendar.
- Your main-body summer jersey spec pack, if we developed it, or its size chart.
- Artwork and colour standard, with every sponsor name and the smallest text on the jersey.
- The fabric-by-panel starting proposal, or an all-mesh jersey.
- Whether the set includes a cap, with a head-size chart or one size.
- A reference garment, sent to our development studio, or photos and current specifications first.
We reply within 24 hours on working days. When the brief form is complete, with garment list, size chart and size range, and race format or band, the 48 hours start from the moment you submit it. If an item is missing, our reply lists what is still needed in one go.
The feasibility review reaches you from the development manager within 48 hours of a complete brief, and covers:
- Whether the hot weather jersey can be developed to your specification.
- The pattern and fabric direction, with the fabric-by-panel proposal.
- The next step for sampling.
Related Pages and Our Two Sister Sites
Race fit cycling jersey
how the riding block is drafted, graded and checked on the bike.
Aero cycling jersey development
seam placement, textured sleeve fabric and the three aero tiers.
Race cycling apparel range
the four temperature bands and the garments in each.
Thermal cycling jersey
the long sleeve jersey for the 10–16 °C band.
Cycling gilet
the outer layer for 16–22 °C descents and the 10–16 °C band.
Arm and leg warmers
the warmers that carry a short sleeve jersey into cooler bands.
The same factory runs two other sites. Bulk production of your spec pack runs on cyclingapparelfactory.com, and the development manager can pass your pack to it. Club and team kit ordering runs on teamcyclingkits.com.
Send Your Hot Weather Jersey Brief
Send the races above 22 °C in your calendar, your size chart and whether a cap joins the set. The development manager takes your brief from first proposal to signed sample. Request a feasibility review.