Functional and, above all, breathable underwear offers many advantages during training and sporting competitions. In cycling, cycling pants for women are particularly important. The ideal model can vary depending on the intended use.
The answer to this depends on various factors: If your cycling trousers don't have an integrated seat pad, for example, then you should wear functional bike underwear with a seat pad. For mountain biking, padded inner shorts are a good idea under the more casual, wide-cut mountain bike trousers. Such bike briefs with integrated seat pads are supplied with the casual bike trousers. They can be worn not only under the mountain bike trousers, but also on their own as tights. Freeride, downhill and all-mountain bikers are convinced by this layered look.
However, the tight-fitting look is more suitable for racing bikes. For hygiene reasons at most, thin bike briefs without padding are worn under the slim tights with integrated seat pads. However, briefs are often not worn in order to avoid unnecessary seam friction points.
The velo vest should also be a staple in any cycling wardrobe. In summer, a tank top or short-sleeved vest will do. In winter, however, a warm long-sleeved vest is a good choice. Not only the vest, but also functional bike underwear for women in general should generally have the following functionality:
Synthetic fibres such as polyester are generally used in the production of thermal underwear for women. This material is breathable, quick-drying, hard-wearing and easy to care for. It is therefore ideal for activities involving intensive physical exertion. Natural merino fibres are also becoming increasingly important in the field of thermal underwear for biking.
Merino wool is naturally equipped with all the properties that synthetic fibres also possess. Merino wool is also anti-odour, warms in the cold and cools in the heat, is soft and easy to care for. Functional underwear made from merino wool or with merino wool content is therefore particularly suitable for multi-day tours where the washing machine is not always available. Merino wool is also very light, so it hardly weighs anything in your backpack.
Transa offers a wide range of bike underwear for women, from short, tight-fitting and padded tights to windstopper briefs for cold days. There is also a wide variety of base layers for the upper body, from fresh and functional summer tank tops to warming long-sleeved undershirts with anti-odour merino wool content.
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