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BUYER'S GUIDE
Bibshorts People choiceBest cycling bib shorts: The road.cc People's Choice verdict is in!
Last week we asked you to tell us your favourite bib shorts. We've counted the votes and the results are in. Here's the top ten.
Note: we don't claim any great scientific accuracy for this, especially as write-in polls are awkward things to count. But it's pleasing to see many of our favourites are there, and we're looking forward to getting our hands on a set from a very successful newcomer to see if they're really that good.
10) Endura FS260
10 votes
Stofish says: "Expensive but not stupidly so, comfort is as good as any other and to my experience harder wearing."
8) Sportful Bodyfit Pro
13 votes
GustyBH says: "Classy look & real all day comfort."
8) DHB Aeron Pro
13 votes
dches1 says: "The most my budget stretch to is DHB Aeron Pro. I think for their price they're excellent, no cause to complain! Lovely and comfortable over all distances (for me, anyway)."
7) Lusso ProGel
14 votes
Curly says: I'm a big fan of the Lusso Pro Gel, the only one where the pad hasn't gone flat after 5 years and hasn't started to fall to bits like other makes. I have had Castelli and similar and their Lycra doesn't hold together like the Lusso ones and its great to buy a brand make in Britain
5) Rapha Pro Team
15 votes
paulrattew says: "For me it is the Rapha Pro Team bib shorts. They are supremely comfortable for riding super hard or for long days in the saddle. The chamois is lovely - slightly different from the one in the Rapha Classic shorts and an improvement. The lycra is really supportive, the grippers deep and comfortable. Plus they look great. If you damage them crashing Rapha will do their best to repair them. They are horrifically expensive, but this is the one area where I don't want to skimp."
5) Castelli Free Aero Race
15 votes
Castelli fans are men and women of few words, it seems, but the X2 pad is what people like about these shorts.
4) Castelli Velocissimo Due
18 votes
markfireblade says: "No question even at normal retail prices."
3) Howies Men's
24 votes
Al__S says: "Mainly seamless construction; lovely "classic" matt black finish; no bright colours; subtle; comfortable; good value. What's not to like?"
2) Rapha Classic
28 votes
VeloVert says: "Classy as hell, with the matt finish being a little less showy than the Pro Team shorts. Pad is epic; I did five hours on Sunday having never done more than two before and the one part of me that didn't hurt was my backside. Expensive, but you truly do get what you pay for."
1) RedWhite The Bibs
41 votes
rosscompton says: "I recently got a set of 'The Bibs' from Red White. They're far better than everything else I have. A great pad that is perfect for a long ride and really comfortable grippers. Can't recommend them enough!"
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John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
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42 comments
Credit where credit is due, they obviously galvanised either their mates or their fans (all 41 of them) and obviuosly, nobody else could be arsed to do so. Good luck to them, fix or no fix, it's nice to see the little guys win the day for once.
Were the votes counted in Tower Hamlets?
been going just over a year and they suddenly have a bigger fan base than Rapha, Castelli and Endura....of course they are the favourite in the UK
...and I agree, this stinks. FIX!
Shame Galibier.cc didn't get a mention, as good as anything here, probably better, and a smidgeon over £50 they are a STEAL.
I have heard of them, all though i didn't vote for them.
i do recall them mentioning to their fans/users/etc about the competition, it seems that perhaps their followers like them after all!?
RedWho ? 30 years riding and not heard of them either.
I only voted for them 40 times. There's something funny going on...
Eh? Never heard of em! That's so fixed!
41 votes?
Hmmmmm, can't help but think that somebody might have voted for themselves here.
They're all at it. Get over it.
EDIT: My original comment was flippant, but really this whole article sums up the utter corruption in cycling. Even an innocent question about which are your favourite nylon knickers for riding a bike gets perverted by some no-mark chancers who dope the vote.
And we expect the blokes who race each other AFTER a 200Km bike ride to stay clean? Fuck this shit!
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