They simply have to be the kind of ‘common’ shorts one would put on mountain climbing or one thing like that, not the sort on would put on to the yacht membership cocktail celebration or monster truck rally. In different phrases no cotton/cut-offs. For actual informal using cotton can be high-quality however I assume you get the purpose right here anyway.
Shorts over bike shorts might be a better monetary choice than MTB shorts for somebody who figures they’re going to ultimately ditch that strategy for going with simply bike shorts.
I will not lecture you on getting over it and simply carrying lycra………however whenever you’re on a protracted experience in a spot you are comfy take off the common shorts and put them in your jersey pocket and you may see why that is the final consensus.
I discover match to be actually vital, extra so than outright high quality. Logic may say with the stretch it must be straightforward to get pores and skin tight and they’re all pores and skin tight so why is match an enormous deal however in my expertise it actually does matter. Particularly with bibs….there is a high-quality line between sag and wedgie.
So in your first pair of shorts/bibs it’d make sense to go to a store and take a look at them on.
Costly is not essentially higher but it surely’s one space the place getting what you want/need is properly price paying additional if that is what it takes to get a pair that suites your physique.