Le Col launches summer range with imagery that celebrates the landscape closer to home

The range-topping Hors Categorie Collection gets a revamp with updated HC bib shorts

Le Col has launched its 2021 Spring-Summer kit with a dash of creativity. Generally, a new product release would come accompanied with a shower of stunning photographs from a suitably iconic location—whether that’s snaking switchbacks of the Stelvio or the steep streets of Siena.

We’ve all become experts in adapting and improvising over the last year, and Le Col is no different. With the combination of travel bans and social distancing making scant the possibility for a typical launch, a decision was made for an alternative—just fake it.

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Stefan Abram
Tech features editor

After winning the 2019 National Single-Speed Cross-Country Mountain Biking Championships and claiming the plushie unicorn (true story), Stefan swapped the flat-bars for drop-bars and has never looked back. 


Since then, he’s earnt his 2ⁿᵈ cat racing licence in his first season racing as a third, completed the South Downs Double in under 20 hours and Everested in under 12.


But his favourite rides are multiday bikepacking trips, with all the huge amount of cycling tech and long days spent exploring new roads and trails - as well as histories and cultures. Most recently, he’s spent two weeks riding from Budapest into the mountains of Slovakia


Height: 177cm

Weight: 67–69kg