Ciovita hails from the sunny coastline of Cape Town in South Africa. Not the first place you'd think of for testing winter kit (though on cold days I often wish I was back riding along Chapman's Peak), but the Apex Contego Jacket 2.0 proves otherwise aiming to be one of the best jackets for bikepacking and gravel. The range is largely road and gravel-based, but they have plenty of XC and trail options, too, and if you watched any of the Cape Epic races, you would have seen the leaders riding in kit made in their own local factory.
