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Rapha Women's Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £65 on Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve), that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) review we’re going to look at why it scores 9.4/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 208 products in the Base Layers 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

9.7

Price

8.6

Reviews

9.8

Overall

9.4

 

Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) reviews

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Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) Specification

Rapha Women's Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) specs

Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve)
Feature 1

Material: 100% Merino Wool

Other Base Layers found with this feature: 16

Feature 2

Highly breathable

Other Base Layers found with this feature: 34

Feature 3

Rapid Wicking

Other Base Layers found with this feature: 3

Feature 4

Natural odour resistance

Other Base Layers found with this feature: 8

Feature 5

Female cut

Other Base Layers found with this feature: 3

Feature 6

Flatlocked stitching

Other Base Layers found with this feature: 5

Spec 1

Colour: Black-Cream

Other Base Layers found with this spec: 16

Spec 2

Clothing Size: L

Other Base Layers found with this spec: 34

Spec 3

Gender: Female

Other Base Layers found with this spec: 3

Spec 4

Age Group: Adult

Other Base Layers found with this spec: 8

Price

£65

Number of Reviews
Review Score

/ 5

Average score in category: 4.5

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  • . Rapha base layers are made from the highest grade of New Zealand merino wool. The fabric is extremely comfortable, wicks moisture superbly and is naturally breathable and odour resistant. The Women‚Äôs Base Layer has been cut specifically for a female shape, with a neat, set-in v-neck that has a finer binding than the men‚Äôs version. Other features include set-in sleeves and flat lock stitching, designed to ensure the fabric won‚Äôt chafe and to eliminate rubbing from bib shorts and bag straps Features: Material: 100% Merino WoolHighly breathableRapid WickingNatural odour resistanceFemale cutFlatlocked stitchingBuy Rapha Clothing from Chain Reaction Cycles. The World‚Äôs Largest Online Bike Store.
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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 Base Layers.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 208 different products in the Base Layers category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 94 products from Rapha (although only 19 of the 94 are in the Base Layers 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 Base Layers. 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 Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Rapha. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) 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 Base Layers. There are 208 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 208, the average price is £32.68. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £10 and most expensive was £87.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Rapha. The average price was £79.78 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £8.75 up to £260 with Rapha products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Rapha products that appear specifically in the Base Layers category. So you can see that the price of Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) at £65 is great value considering the average price of Rapha Base Layers is £28.61 and the price varies from £15.00.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £65 which represents a £ or saving against RRP. If you think Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) 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.

Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Base Layers too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find reviews scoring it out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Rapha. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Base Layers category is 4.5 and the average score of products from Rapha is 3.9 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Rapha in the Base Layers category the average review score is 4.5.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) such a high overall score of 9.4 / 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 reviews for Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) which score it , 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 Rapha Women’s Merino Base Layer (Long Sleeve) or in fact any of the other Base Layers, 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.