Buy the Right Shorts for Biking

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eHowLearn the different types of bike shorts to use when you are riding your bicycle in this free video series about biking and biking enthusiasts.

Transcript for: Buy the Right Shorts for Biking

"When we're looking for traditional cycling short just like with baggy shorts the first thing you want to look for is a high quality shammy that's comfortable and offers acacia wood features. Here we see that we got multi multi density padding really good stitching that's flat lock stitching so it doesn't chafe. We see that number of panels of the short, number of actual fabric panels that we have is pretty high, this is like a 12 panel short. Smaller panel like you see here across the front of the leg make a really big difference fit of the short, the most comfortable of the short is you know the more comfortable your going to be riding. This is what you call a bib short is my preferred style of short to wear while riding it's a little bit warmer than a short that ends at your waist line. But having the bibs like sort of the suspenders keep everything up without same sort of constriction and run around your mid section. Which over the long run it's more comfortable we see with this particular model that we've got mashed for the bib area which is really nice because it allows us to breath a little bit better. And then for you know for more competition use you can get something called skin suit which is a one piece sort of competition uniform that has a jersey and shorts built in. This is very practical for everyday riding but it's a lot more air dynamic and has it snag on things which makes it good for different competitions. As you can see we got our shammy in graded right into the unit and another thing to notice with the skin suit is that the upper is made out of the similar material to the bottom so that's more of a, it's a less prefer rated material it's not quit as cool. It's not good as really hot events and stuff like that for something like a down hill race or a short intense cross country mountain bike race, this can be a really good piece of clothing to use it's very minimal once you excellent freedom movement and air dynamic efficiently."

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