£75, metiercycling.com
Graphene is billed as the wonder-stuff that’s set to take over the world. It’s a carbon-based nanomaterial that is somehow at once strong, light, conductive, elastic and impermeable.
Someday we’ll be living in it, wearing it, watching it and possibly eating it too. But for the Metier Element Race base layer, graphene acts to dissipate heat through the kit. That means in warm weather it moves the heat away from the body, while in cold weather it warms the core temperature. At £75 it’s not cheap, but it is a slice of the future.…