{"id":2447035,"date":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=310528"},"modified":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:00:00","slug":"gear-junkie-a-carbon-fiber-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/gear-junkie-a-carbon-fiber-t-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear Junkie: A carbon fiber T-shirt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/gear-atw-080119-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/gear-atw-080119-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/gear-atw-080119-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>VOllebak&#8217;s new Carbon Fibre shirt retials for $110.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">London-based Vollebak in the past has sold apparel embedded with high-tech materials like ceramic and graphene. Now, it releases a T-shirt laced with material \u201cnormally reserved for use in missiles, jet engines and the world\u2019s fastest cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">The adventure apparel brand launched the Carbon Fibre T-Shirt this month. Yes, the material renowned for high-end mountain bikes and aerospace products now lives in a shirt you can wear to get coffee and donuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Why carbon fiber? Because, according to the brand: \u201cThe entire surface area of the T-shirt is abrasion-resistant. Every square centimeter has carbon fiber running through it. (And) whether you\u2019re lugging climbing rope over your shoulder, you come off your bike on a downhill track, or your bag is shifting up and down on your back on a long run, that\u2019s all abrasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">While the shirt is laced with carbon fiber, it\u2019s primarily constructed of stretch synthetic fabric. Yet somehow, Vollebak manages to put a football field\u2019s worth of carbon fiber into each shirt \u2014 nearly 400 feet of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">As a performance garment, the shirt remains lightweight (just under 6 ounces), wicks moisture and boasts high breathability. However, the big selling point is abrasion resistance \u2014 Vollebak calls it \u201cripstop to save your skin\u201d \u2014 and the brand promises the fibers will never wash out or scratch off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">All that tech comes at a price. The Carbon Fibre shirt runs $110 \u2014 but like many Vollebak garments, this will likely sell out fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Shirttail\">Stephen Regenold writes about outdoors gear at <a href=\"https:\/\/gearjunkie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"www.gearjunkie.com (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/www.gearjunkie.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/gear-junkie-a-carbon-fiber-t-shirt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOllebak&#8217;s new Carbon Fibre shirt retials for $110.Courtesy photo London-based Vollebak in the past has sold apparel embedded with high-tech materials like ceramic and graphene. Now, it releases a T-shirt laced with material \u201cnormally reserved for use in missiles, jet engines and the world\u2019s fastest cars.\u201d The adventure apparel brand launched the Carbon Fibre T-Shirt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 06:48:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}