Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins Reviews

Review score: 8.8/10 – Updated November, 2024

Latest Price: £32 – Save 36% (RRP: £50)

Take a look now to discover what makes Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins worthy of a review score of 8.8 out of 10.

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Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins features

Quality

Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Leg Warmers. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins.

The first thing is material. Looking at what Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.

Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Leg Warmers. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.

There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Leg Warmers. Brands like Castelli are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.

Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Leg Warmers category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.

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Comparing Prices

Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Leg Warmers.

It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.

Price of Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins.

We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £32 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.9 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Leg Warmers

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Leg Warmers.

We found 59 in the Leg Warmers category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £32.51, making it below average at £32.

It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Leg Warmers. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £70.00, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £8.00.

With 59 products available we worked out that 24 cost more than Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins and 34 were cheaper.

Cost of Castelli products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 371 products from Castelli, of which 7 were in the Leg Warmers category.

For now though we’re looking at Castelli branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £74.52 making this product below average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Castelli product we found was £6.50 and the highest price we could find from them was £340.00.

Of the 371 from Castelli, 269 were more expensive than Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins and 99 were cheaper.

How much are Castelli Leg Warmers?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Castelli products that are listed in the Leg Warmers category.

The average price of the 7 products that match this search was £41.31, with the cheapest coming in at £27.20 and highest price was £65.00. With the average being £41.31, Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins comes in below average.

4 products that meet this search were more expensive than Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins and 2 were cheaper.

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Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins Reviews

Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.

There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.

1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.

2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.

Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.4 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Leg Warmers category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.2 out of 5.

Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins or another similar product, like Castelli Nano Flex 3g Legwarmer reviews or Castelli Nano Flex 3g Kneewarmer reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Leg Warmers.

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Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Leg Warmers. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Castelli, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.

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YouTube Video of Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins reviews.

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Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 8.8/10 overall.

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Further product details

• Product ID 1: 25878036207
• Product ID 2: 628606UK
• Brand: Castelli
• Model number: CS160370012
• RRP: £50
• EAN: 8055688216672
• Description: Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg SkinsThe Castelli UPF50+ Light Leg Skins primary purpose is to protect against UV rays and they do that extremely well. Not just that though, even in cooler conditions they offer a degree of warmth, making them perfect for hot and sunny climbs and cool descents.Rated at UPF 50+, these skins actually block 99.8 percent of damaging UV rays thanks to the polyester fabric used. This also has the benefit of making the skins very breathable so even though you’ll tend to be riding in warmer conditions you’ll not suffer from sweat build up. With minimal seams they are extremely comfortable, and being so light are easily stashed in a pocket when not needed.Features:Material: 86% Polyester, 14% ElastaneSolare fabric keeps the chill off without causing overheatingUPF 50+ protectionPolyester based for excellent moisture managementDouble-side silicone elastic at top for excellent gripAnkle zip for easy on/offWEIGHT: 219g (Pair)Buy Castelli Clothing from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
• Full Category: Clothing > Leg Warmers
• Savings percentage from RRP: 36%
• Size: S
• Male
• 18
• Adult

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Other options for Leg Warmers

As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Leg Warmers. 59 in fact.

A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Castelli UPF 50+ Light Leg Skins included,
Castelli Thermoflex 2 Armwarmer reviews, Castelli Thermoflex 2 Legwarmer reviews, or we really liked the look of Castelli Thermoflex 2 Kneewarmer reviews as another alternative.