A Shirt for Everyone Riding Incheon to Busan

We made a shop T-shirt.

It is a shop shirt, with the logo on it, and we are happy if people wear it for that. But when we chose the design, we were thinking about the people who ride Incheon to Busan. You come back with a stamped passport, maybe a medal, and a lot of photos of the same river. There is not much else to show for it. We wanted something you could keep and wear.

So the back of this shirt is the route. And if you have finished it, the shirt is yours.

Black, quick-dry fabric. A small logo on the left chest. And on the back, the whole route.

The line is a real track

The route on the back was not drawn by hand. It comes from the GPS files we recorded riding it, joined end to end in order: Ara, Han, Saejae, Nakdong. We cleaned out a couple of detours and bridged a few short gaps where the recorder dropped out, then simplified the line just enough to print cleanly on fabric.

That is all we changed. Every bend you see is a bend in the actual path. The big turn where the Han swings east past Yangpyeong is there. The tight kinks through the Saejae section are there. The long, slow run down the Nakdong is there. If you have ridden it, you can put a finger on the back of the shirt and find the place you stopped for the night.

Two pins mark Incheon and Busan. The logo sits over the middle of the country. Below the line, the four sections are named. A small star just west of the route marks where the shop is.

What it looks like

Three colours on black: grey for the logo, a copper line for the route, and a khaki star for the shop. From across a room it reads as a plain black tee. Up close, it is a map.

The pins have an open centre, so the fabric shows through. The route line is about two millimetres wide, which is as thin as we could go before the tight corners started to fill in.

The fabric

We did not want a shirt that only works for standing around. The fabric is a quick-dry knit, the kind used for training tees, not cotton. Sweat moves through it and dries instead of soaking in and hanging on your back.

That makes it usable for an easy ride, a trainer session, a run, or the walk to the café afterwards. It is not a cycling jersey. There are no rear pockets, and the fit is a regular T-shirt fit, not a race cut. For a jersey-length ride you will still want a jersey. For everything shorter and slower, this is fine.

Price and sizes

₩29,000, in the shop.

Sizes: S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL.

These are Korean sizes, and they run smaller than US sizes. If you normally wear a US medium, take a large here. If you are between sizes, go up. You can try one on in the shop.

If you have finished the route

The shirt is yours. Bring your stamped bike passport or your finisher medal, tell us about the ride, and take one. It does not matter when you finished it or where you bought your bike.

That was the point of putting the route on the back. It makes more sense on someone who has ridden the line than on a shelf.