We first saw this back in 2009 when our cervlo testteam rider jeremy hunt rode the omloop het nieuwsblad in knee warmers that he had cut to knee length it took six years for it to catch on but we saw half a dozen or so riders starting the 2015 omloop with that same look so we engineered a fabric that lets us leave a soft raw edge at the back of the knee that wont cut into you and we started riding prototypes the womens version is technically identical to the mens version but incorporate