Made For Work Tee Shirt

We made the Made For Work tee in black, and only black, because a shop t-shirt has one job that fashion-grade tees don't: hide a long day. Chain lube migrates. Bar grease ends up where bar grease ends up. The greasy-hand smudge on the front of a tee from the time someone forgot to wipe down before grabbing lunch. Dark cotton handles all of that without making a thing of it. Grey looks good in the changing room and looks like a story by Wednesday afternoon.

The blank is a Next Level 6210; printed in the USA, mid-weight cotton, fits the way a shop tee should fit (not boxy, not slim, just out of the way). We picked it after wearing a lot of blanks and finding that this one held shape through the wash cycle. A tee that pulls long after two months in heavy rotation has gone past the bench-wear threshold and into “wear it under the hoodie” territory; we wanted something that stayed at the front of the rotation.

A small Unior Bike Tools logo sits on the left chest. The bigger Made For Work mark sits across the back, which is the side a customer sees when you're bent over a stand. It's positional; the back graphic does the line-identity work without putting a big logo across your chest while you're filling out a workorder.

Specs

• Fabric: Next Level 6210; mid-weight, soft cotton, printed in the USA
• Color: black (only)
• Print: Unior Bike Tools logo on the left chest in white; Made For Work mark on the back in white
• Fit: straight, mid-weight; not boxy, not slim

Built by a tool company

Unior has been forging hand tools in Zreče, Slovenia, since 1919, and is the official technical partner of multiple World Tour and downhill teams. The Made For Work line is the gear-side companion to the tool catalog. We sweat the details that come from shop work; like printing on a blank that survives the wash without distorting, and putting a back graphic on a tee where it'll actually be seen.

Pro tip from our mechanics

A black mid-weight cotton tee is the workshop's most-used layer. It survives the laundry cycle and it doesn't broadcast every greasy-thumb mark a long day produces. If you want a different cut, the Unior Bike Tools Euro T-Shirt is the classic 100% cotton crew in black or grey. For the broader piece on workshop apparel (the hoodies, hats, and the rest of the Made For Work line), see: What we wear in the workshop →