Le Col Hors Catégorie jacket review

The boldly named women's specific Le Col Hors Catégorie jacket pledges to be your ultimate winter riding partner, but is it so good that it's beyond categorisation?

Le Col Hors Catégorie jacket
Cycling Weekly Verdict

The men's or women's specific Le Col Hors Catégorie jacket has some impressive design features that come straight off your winter jacket must have list. With a couple of design tweaks, the upper end, high end jacket could be close to the ultimate winter jacket. 

Reasons to buy
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    Water proof

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    Wind proof

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    Race cut

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    Tail flap

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    Reflective detailing

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    Internal pocket

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    High neck

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    Reinforced elbows

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    Men's and Women's specific versions

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Reasons to avoid
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    Price

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    Could be warmer

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    Pocket sizing and location

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Picture the scene - you're out on a winter ride and you are so cold, wet and miserable that you start day dreaming about what the perfect winter jacket would actually look like. For most, the mental checklist is as far as it gets, but I'd put money on a ride like this being the inception for the Le Col Hors Catégorie jacket.

>>> Winter cycling survival guide: 10 helpful tips to keep you riding

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Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.

Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.

For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 

She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.