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2008-10-14 5:15 PM
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Subject: RE: Why are most triathlon wetsuits black?

ok, going for an educated guess on this one. I am just finishing a review series on wetsuits. Two of the 4 companies have colors on there swimming wetsuits. From what I can tell, they use different types of rubber/ different fabric on the sections that are colored. As for the "neon flash from the past", from what I can tell, it is not a swimming wetsuit. It bunches up too much to be a swim specific suit from what I can see.

My conclusion is that the newer high stretch matirials (yamamoto rubber, etc) are either too new or too expensive to be messing with adding color at this point. Some companies do add color on the suit, but the rubber it's self is not colore that I know of. that is my 2 cents worth.

I agree, some more color would be great.

Randome thought, what ever happened to the Cents sign on the keyboard anyway?



Edited by Ontherun 2008-10-14 5:19 PM


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