How do you improve on Olympic Gold? Get behind the design of Velans™ 2.
Six years ago, Velans™ became a best-seller, since then it has won Olympic gold, and stood on a Grand Tour podium. So why did we rebuild it from the ground up?
Velans™ set a benchmark few could touch. Best-seller. Olympic gold. Grand Tour podium. After six years, it had earned its place as the centrepiece of many podium-topping athletes’ must-have kit lists.
But we don’t believe in standing still. Velans™ 2 takes everything that made the original iconic and pushes it further.
"Every time we design a new product at SunGod, we're aiming to make it better than the last. With Velans™ 2, we had to start by being honest about what that actually meant. The original was brilliant. But being brilliant isn't a reason to stop innovating, if anything, it raises the bar."
"We'd spent six years watching the original Velans™ in the real world. On climbs, on descents, in the peloton, in training. And over time, you start to notice things. Tiny things. Fractional things as the world of sport moves forwards. Things that nobody outside of elite sport would ever clock: but those things that matter to us." Ed · Head of Product, SunGod
Those details became the brief, a set of problems to solve, built from six years of honest feedback from the athletes who wear SunGod every day.
"We were in real conversations with elite riders throughout the process. Not to validate decisions we'd already made, but to pressure-test ideas before they became anything. The brief was simple: if it's not good enough to choose on race day, it's not good enough."
"The arm profile is a good example. The original Velans™ performed brilliantly, but we were hearing that grip varied across different head shapes, which, when you're riding with speed, is an issue. So we went back to the drawing board on the temple design entirely. We went through a lot of iterations. A lot of 3D prints. A lot of test rides where the feedback came back and we started again." Ed · Head of Product, SunGod
The same process played out across every element of the design. Nothing made it into Velans™ 2 because it sounded good in a meeting. Everything made it because it solved something real.
"We spent a long time on the venting. We looked at where air actually moves across the lens during exertion and where body heat accumulates. The integrated vents in Velans™ 2 are ergonomically placed specifically to interrupt that process, continuous airflow, precisely located, so fogging simply doesn't get a chance to start."
Ed · Head of Product, SunGod
The Details That Make the Difference:
Remodelled Arm & Temple Profile
The new ergonomically tuned arm fins create a more consistent grip across a wider range of head shapes. Whether you're sprinting or descending at 80km/h, Velans™ 2 stays exactly where you put it.
New Integrated Venting
Ergonomically located lens vents deliver continuous airflow, eliminating fogging before it starts. Designed for hard efforts in the cold, wet, and everything in between.
Featherweight Durability:
Light enough to forget. Tough enough to take whatever the day throws at it.
Infinite™ Recycled Frames
100% recycled frames with a carbon footprint seven times lower than virgin plastic. Performance and planet, not performance or planet.
8KO® Nylon Lens Technology
8KO® nylon delivers high-definition optical clarity across changing light conditions, cuts glare with precision, and wraps further around the face for maximum coverage.
There's a rider Velans™ 2 was designed for. They train with intention but ride for the feeling. They chase a KOM on Wednesday and disappear into the hills on Saturday just because they can. They know results matter, but so does the joy of the ride itself.
"We talk about this a lot internally. The best performance products aren't just tools, they're things you reach for without thinking, because they've earned that place. We wanted Velans™ 2 to be the pair that a pro chooses because they genuinely can't imagine being without them."
Ed · Head of Product, SunGod
Velans™ 2 isn't a new chapter, it's the same story, made better. A newly refined silhouette and flexible arm profile, engineered with the world’s best athletes to give you the same uncompromising fit and stability for both performance and play.
