Every long ride has that moment — the road underfoot stops being a cold number on a computer, and becomes the teammate breaking wind beside you. Somewhere between the mist swirling over Wuling and the dawn light on Sun Moon Lake, that's exactly what the SIU MĀAI team lived through: three days, climbing from Jiaoxi all the way to Alishan, through the harshest and most breathtaking terrain in Taiwan's Central Mountain Range.
ZZCC built this kit specifically for that challenge — to go the distance with you.
Graphic design: The gradient bands running across the jersey aren't decoration — they're a miniature of the terrain itself. Green fading into ochre, dissolving into a pale cream like the thin flow of morning mist: that's the ridgeline stacked up behind Wuling Pass, the haze lifting slowly off the lake at dawn, the tree line thinning out on the road toward Tataka. We didn't want to make a jersey that just carries a logo through the mountains — we wanted it to look like it grew straight out of them.
Cut and construction: Facing three days and 7,720m of relentless climbing, a jersey can't just look good in photos. Every decision — fabric weight, panel construction, chamois selection — was made for riders grinding it out in the saddle. From the 5:30am start on Day 2 facing a brutal 2,760m of climbing, to the final push toward Alishan at dawn on Day 3: maximum breathability on the hard climbs, stable protection on the fast descents, and still comfortable against the skin even at hour eight.
All of it was worth it.
A ride always comes to an end. Legs slowly recover, photos sink to the bottom of a camera roll, and mountains that felt impossible on the day start to blur in memory within a few months.
But the jersey stays. Once you've worn it through all of that, it's no longer just fabric — it's a real record. Every kilometre of Wuling, every hairpin on the way to Dayuling, and that hand reaching over to your shoulder on the bridge across Sun Moon Lake because you'd made it through together — it's all woven into every stitch, whether the fabric knows it or not.
SIU MĀAI × ZZCC — Central Mountain Range Ultimate Challenge, June 2026.
