Looking for a recommendation on a tri jersey I plan on using for IM. Pockets are key. Specifically I want a center back pocket to use on the bike to carry an extra water bottle. Second ask would be kidney pockets for gels on the run and last but not least a full front zip…
any recommendations appreciated.
De Soto Riviera. https://www.desotosport.com/product/RTJ
Specifically I want a center back pocket to use on the bike to carry an extra water bottle.
Why why why? Dear god why?
No idea why you’d want a water bottle on your back for 180KM but I do know the Champion System shorts have pockets on each thigh, big enough for a gel or two and easier to access than pockets on the back of a tri jersey.
Valid question on why. I am racing IM (5th time around) and I will ride my P3 with a bottle on the aero bars, aero bottle on down tube and then want a jersey I can pick up a bottle as I ride by aid stations to put in and fill up the front two. I hate having big bottle cages on the back of my seat…and still fooling around with zip tieing one cage to the back but not figured that out yet. I like having my patch kit in my rear bag and might stick a cage on the outside of that…send me pics if you have a good solution that is not to unstable…thanks
New P3 or old one? I am by no means an aero guru, but a good solution might be using something like an xlab single bottle carrier with a flat bag tightly packed underneath. Id imagine the bottle on your back would present some decent drag.
Ditch the aero bottle on the down tube. Put a regular bottle cage there and just trade out as needed. Simple as that. I am willing to guess that the combo I describe is more aero over 180k than a bottle in the back pocket and trying to refill the aero bottle on the down tube.
Specifically I want a center back pocket to use on the bike to carry an extra water bottle.
Why why why? Dear god why?
Your opinion is irrelevant:
I hate having big bottle cages on the back of my seat…
For your consideration, the “Al Sultan Cage” hydration solution. His highness must’ve visited a wind tunnel or two and found that setup to be the most aero 
Good comments thanks. I am trying to have water up front and in the shorts a’la Faris…and nutrition in the down bottle…I will most likely end up with a zip tied cage on the back but keep the ideas coming.
oh new P3 ish…
DeSoto has a few tri jerseys with pockets.
Most of the pockets on tri jerseys are marginal in size to carry a full dimension water bottle. At minimum, it will be a little tricky to get it to open wide enough since most of those have tight elastic bands to keep them closed when swimming.
I use the riviera tri bib and a single bottle zip tied behind the seat. I found at miami half that the crap plastic bottles you get at stations, and the angle of the BTS cage, I had to sit up to get the friggin thing back in,and then it would collapse on me, and take what felt like minutes to cram it back in the cage. Then one fell out… Thinking I might use the back pocket on the tri bib to store the pickup water bottles, has to be better than having to sit up to get the bottle back in
If you can get blueseventy where you are, not full length zip though.
http://www.blueseventy.co.uk/collections/tri-apparel-1/products/mens-tx2000-tri-top
Looking for a recommendation on a tri jersey I plan on using for IM. Pockets are key. Specifically I want a center back pocket to use on the bike to carry an extra water bottle. Second ask would be kidney pockets for gels on the run and last but not least a full front zip…
any recommendations appreciated.
The TYR carbon jersey has enough room for a bottle and other things. The pocket is huge. one of my cages came loose in a race last year and had to resort to that.