The Endurance Nation Store on Trisports.com is LIVE!
Team,
The Endurance Nation Gear Store on Trisports.com is finally LIVE, and all EN items are on sale, at 20% off, through December 15th, 2015!
Go here to the Endurance Nation Gear Store on Trisports.com, and use password Endurance!Nation! to login and view the store. The prices of all items have been reduced by 20% so you don't need a discount code for the sale, but all of the prices will go up to full price on December 16th.
EN Store and 20% Off Sale Notes:
Cycling Kit Notes
- Capo and the new Design: the vets on the squad will note that we've gone back to Capo and have tweaked the original Capo kit design from 2011-12, to be mostly red vs red and black. 4+yrs hundreds of cycling hours later my Capo kit is still rocking and the bibs are only just now beginning to be a little blown out.
- Sizing and Fit:
- The men and women's jerseys are Capo's Corsa line, the same sizing and fit as the original Capo kit. This is not Euro-cyclist skinny kit and will fit more generously and forgiving then the current LG cycling kits
- The mens bibs and womens shorts (!) are their Super Corsa style: same sizing as the original Capo kit but with a more compressive fit. We've also gotten their highest-end chamois.
- Men's Bibs: gents, the vets and I have been encouraging you to ride with cycling bibs for hundreds of years. There's a good reason why cyclists riding hundreds of miles every week ride in bibs -- they are super comfortable. Seriously, once you go bibs you'll never go back to shorts. So just buy the friggin' bibs and thank me later! As for durability, as I said, 98% of every mile I've ridden since 2011 have been in one set of ~3-4x EN Capo bibs that I rotate through every week.
- Convertible Jacket: this is great kit that you've seen many of us wearing for years at the races -- very sharp and functional, with the sleeves zipping off to turn the jacket into a vest.
Women's Shorts: gals, we've tried for years to get you to ride in EN shorts, but have had no joy in meeting our minimums. Capo has unveiled a great fitting women's specific short. See the waistband below. We really, really hope you get on board with these shorts! See the waistband below.
Cycling Kit Availability: please buy your cycling items during this once per year sale opportunity! We've learned it's very difficult to get you guys to buy cycling kit during other parts of the year, especially in the racing season, so the purpose of the 20% off sale is to get you to buy all of your stuff now. We can not guarantee that we'll maintain an inventory of all size or that we'll do another cycling kit order before Fall 2016...so order your cycling kit now!
Triathlon Kit Notes
- We are staying with Louis Garneau for the tri tops and have made a few small design tweaks to the men's top.
- Women's specific design: the gals spoke and we listened, firing up Grant to create a women's specific design that fits well within the EN brand. We hope you like the design and chose to buy it!
No Tri Shorts: as a squad that specializes in long course triathlon, we are all very picky with what what we choose to train and race with. So we've decided to not offer EN tri shorts, as we've never been able to satisfy enough of you for it to make financial sense for us. Instead, we encourage you to use your Trisports.com discount to order whatever shorts solution you want!
One-Piece Tri Kit: at some point in the 2016 season we will organize a group buy of highly technical, EN branded one-piece sleeved trisuits from Louis Garneau and/or Castelli (for the Kona-specific kits)
Tri Kit Availability: please buy your cycling items during this sale opportunity! As we, as a coaching and admin team, get busy with coaching you and supporting you at races, it becomes very difficult for us to organize additional gear buying opportunities, maintain a current inventory, etc. In short, if you wait until October '16 to buy your EN tri top for IMAZ'16, it's very likely that we won't have your size in stock, so please buy it during this sale!
Other Apparel Notes:
- Finally, note that we are offering very high quality visors, running and trucker hats available in the store, as well as EN red and branded cotton t's and technical short and long sleeve t's!
- I've been very impressed with the vendor we're using for ^these^ items and am confident we'll be able to work with them soon to provide other items for sale -- polo's, coffee mugs and similar fun items.
- EN Stickers: those of you who attended the races I managed saw the selection of EN stickers we fired up. As soon as I get my guy to return his damn email we'll have those available in the store as well.
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The EN Gear Store is here, use password Endurance!Nation! to login, and save 20% on all items through December 15th, 2015!
Comments
Awesome!
Are products returnable to Trisports? EG, can I buy 2 different sized tops & bibs , try them on and return one?
Uhhhh...would be awesome if everyone, especially folks with the original capo kit, used the size chart vs doing what you described.
Scott - You should order the smaller size, because you are going to lose a ton weight and THEN fit right into it.
Sorry, our sale is separate from the Trisports sale, ie, you can't take an additional 25% off of these prices, already reduced 20%. But you can pass through from the EN store into the rest of the Trisports store and save 25% on anything else you want to buy.
Sorry! We were hoping to be DONE with the sale by Nov 15 but these things (coordinating designs and orders with multiple vendors, getting the store setup, etc) always takes much longer than we hope.
Bibs literally changed my life. Two things make saddle sores go away...the right saddle and bibs. There is no such thing as TMI in EN-land. (well almost no such thing)
Please read the first post in this thread, discussed there
Yep, I shake my head at guys who still wear shorts and it kills me that we sell more jerseys than bibs = guys are still doing it very, very wrong.
I've been cycling shorts free since '02 and since I train 100% of the time in cycling vs tri kit.
See first post re tri shorts. Many of us focused on long course racing have been racing with DeSoto tri bibs or other solutions vs more traditional tri shorts. We have a stack of unsold triathlon shorts that say a squad of long course athletes don't want to train or race in them.
Sorry, edited the first post to include more detail re sleeves.
agreed, rarely do I ride in anything else. When they don't think I can hear them, I've heard riders in the group ask each other about EN and the reply is usually very positive for us
And, we have a rep for being strong.....so, when I'm out there, I'm def representing, both in competitive effort AND how I behave.
Also, I'm very excited that availability and out the door shipping is going to be easier this way. Sheri got to the point that she wouldn't buy me the EN gear for holiday presents b/c she couldn't count on it being available/shipped in time for a birthday or Christmas or whatever.
Step in the right direction.
Virginia,
See the first post re the timeline for delivery of items, etc. Trisports just received our stock of shirts, hats will be there shortly. When we close out this sale we'll pass on those numbers to LG and Capo for the production of tri and cycling kit, and that should start to ship out to EN customers about mid-late Feb.
No, that free shipping does not apply in the EN store. Thanks for understanding
I ask because have a capo kit I purchased here at the Tour of Dubai and I feel it's Euro Sizing as it a Large on both the bibs and jersey. It fits super snug and does feel like the larges back in the states.