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Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £196 on Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket review we’re going to look at why it scores 8.7/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 541 products in the Jackets – Cycle category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

8.2

Price

9.9

Reviews

8.1

Overall

8.7

 

Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket reviews

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Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket Specification

Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket specs

Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket
Feature 1

Main Material: 100% Polyester

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 116

Feature 2

Inner Material: 90% Polyester, 10% Elastane

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 5

Feature 3

Bottom Torso: 70% Nylon, 30% Elastane

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 3

Feature 4

2 layer construction

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 3

Feature 5

Partially covered waterproof YKK® Vislon® zipper

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 3

Feature 6

Raw-edge waist

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 5

Feature 7

Raw-edge wrist

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 2

Feature 8

Back ventilation

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 9

Feature 9

3 rear pockets

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 131

Feature 10

Extra pocket with waterproof zip

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 3

Feature 11

Silicone text gripper at waist

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 3

Feature 12

Reflective, laser-cut drain holes

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 3

Feature 13

Temperature Range: -5° to 10°C

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 2

Feature 14

Weight: 515g (Large)

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this feature: 2

Spec 1

Colour: Moonlight Blue-Black, Red-Black

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this spec: 116

Spec 2

Clothing Size: M, S, XXXL

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this spec: 5

Spec 3

Gender: Male

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this spec: 3

Spec 4

Age Group: Adult

Other Jackets – Cycle found with this spec: 3

Price

£196

Number of Reviews

13

Review Score

5.0 / 5

Average score in category: 4.3

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  • . Castelli’s Alpha Ros Jacket is perfect for rain or shine and uses the advanced Gore¬Æ Windstopper¬Æ 150 fabric. This wind/water protection layer is separate from the insulating layer, which ensures excellent ventilation and moisture management. Thanks to innovative seam sealing at the shoulders, reduced seaming, and double stitching, the Alpha Ros provides effective rain protection to keep you mostly dry even on the wettest rides, all whilst offering highly efficient breathability Features: ¬†Main Material: 100% PolyesterInner Material:¬†90% Polyester, 10% ElastaneBottom Torso: 70% Nylon, 30% Elastane2 layer constructionPartially covered waterproof YKK¬Æ Vislon¬Æ zipperRaw-edge waistRaw-edge wristBack ventilation3 rear pocketsExtra pocket with waterproof zipSilicone text gripper at waistReflective, laser-cut drain holesTemperature Range: -5¬∞ to 10¬∞CWeight: 515g (Large)Buy¬†Castelli Clothing¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 8055688711160
  • CS175025012

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Jackets – Cycle.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 541 different products in the Jackets – Cycle category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 360 products from Castelli (although only 43 of the 360 are in the Jackets – Cycle category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Jackets – Cycle. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Castelli. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Jackets – Cycle. There are 541 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 541, the average price is £113.49. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £14 and most expensive was £410.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Castelli. The average price was £71.33 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £7 up to £340 with Castelli products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Castelli products that appear specifically in the Jackets – Cycle category. So you can see that the price of Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket at £196 is great value considering the average price of Castelli Jackets – Cycle is £149.92 and the price varies from £50.00.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £196 which represents a £84.00 or 30% saving against RRP. If you think Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Jackets – Cycle too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 13 reviews scoring it 5.0 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Castelli. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Jackets – Cycle category is 4.3 and the average score of products from Castelli is 4.4 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Castelli in the Jackets – Cycle category the average review score is 4.6.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket such a high overall score of 8.7 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 13 reviews for Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket which score it 5.0, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Castelli Alpha Ros Jacket or in fact any of the other Jackets – Cycle, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.