Sometimes you forget that you don’t have to put up with certain things. Like draughts down your neck. Rapha’s Pro Team Thermal earns its stripes among the best winter base layers for a number of reasons, and for the less hardy of us, one of them is making that first 10 minutes of a winter ride more bearable by sealing up the neck gap.
If you’re not already wearing an ear warmer at that point, you can also pull the neck right over your ears like a snood, though as we’ll see later, that comes with its own pros and cons in terms of face condensation.
