Can padded cycling undies look cute and work hard? Yes, if you're wearing Urbanist Cycling's Brigitte briefs.
The Brigitte briefs are one of two designs from Urbanist Cycling, a new Texan brand that was supported by successful Kickstarter funding. They are designed for city cycling, or indeed anything short of long distance or race rides.
Wearing the Brigitte means that any clothing can become cycle clothing, as the briefs provide both a chamois for commuting comfort and protection from the hems in non-cycle specific trousers or jeans.
The Brigitte has a snazzy black and white striped 'look at me' design. Although I prefer to keep my underwear to myself this is a design which I would be happy to be seen sporting in the changing rooms before spin class as it doesn't look like traditional underwear. The Brigitte briefs are definitely feminine, but in a fun, cute way. There is a thin pink stretch lace on the top of the waistband, sensibly not continued around the legs where it would chafe. This acts instead of a traditional waistband to avoid cutting in and producing the dreaded muffin top.
Find the Urbanist Cycling Padded Brigitte online here
The cut of the briefs is full without being grannyish. They are high at the back but not so high that they showed over the top of my trousers. This was useful as I generally wore non-cycle specific trousers or jeans with them and other cycling briefs I own can show significantly in use.
The chamois pad is of a good quality and really well attached to the briefs themselves with soft stitching which I couldn't feel in use. It is soft and flexible and didn't give a 'nappy' appearance in use. I've mostly been wearing these briefs under merino tights or jeans, and they've certainly got enough padding to wear for a medium to long commute. I didn't feel that I had to change out of them straight away afterwards either as they coped well with sweat and wicked moisture away fairly well.
The briefs stayed in place without riding up and were comfortable in use. My only gripe was that on the XL size the front of the crotch had been sized up too much, so there was excess material to wrinkle between my legs. This isn't an issue on the smaller sizes and didn't pose a comfort problem even in the XL.
The Brigitte briefs are available in four sizes, covering waists from 63 to 89cm between them. They are definitely on the generous side, so if in doubt (or buying as a present) go smaller.
I'm not surprised these briefs raised 250% of their Kickstarter target as they fill a real gap in the market.
Verdict
Turns normal clothing into cycling gear with more style than anything comparable on the market
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Urbanist Cycling Padded Brigitte
Size tested: XL
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Ever dreamt of a comfortable ride around town without having to resort to full-on cycling shorts? Something you can wear all day and feel feminine in, but still helps cushion your most sensitive parts as you ride?
Urbanist Cycling's Brigitte chamois-padded knickers are the answer to your prayers. Beautifully cut to fit and enhance the female form, they've been tested tirelessly by the Texas cycling community where Urbanist is based to ensure no chaffing or digging in. The material is sumptuous, whilst the chamois pads come from one of Italy's most respected chamois designers.
The Brigitte is well suited for medium/longer rides of up to 25 miles, or even longer. A quantum leap forward for women's cycling kit.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Full coverage cycling knickers
Extra thick, flexible chamois pad designed and made in Italy
Breathable, quick drying fabric to wick moisture efficiently
Polyester/elastane blend
Tested by real women to ensure no chaffing or digging in discomfort
Wear under clothes, for outdoor riding or spinning
Nicely made with no loose threads. Labels are all heat sealed so nothing to rub.
Good for rides up to about two hours.
Despite me failing to wash them on a delicate cycle as instructed, these washed really well with no loss of shape.
A lovely chamois and soft, smooth all-round fit.
Comparable with similar items available.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
The briefs were comfy to wear and fitted well.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The snazzy colour scheme.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
About the tester
Age: 36 Height: 5'7 Weight: size 16
I usually ride: Trek 7.5 WSD My best bike is: Turquoise Cruiser
I've been riding for: Under 5 years I ride: A few times a week I would class myself as: Novice
I regularly do the following types of riding: commuting, general fitness riding, Leisure
97 thoughts on “Urbanist Cycling Padded Brigitte”
I think I’d like a pair of
I think I’d like a pair of those to wear over my leggings.
Lordy, I wish I had a butt
Lordy, I wish I had a butt like that! :X I’m sure I would rush out and buy those pants then.
Trikeman. 😉
No way she in the pic is a
No way she in the pic is a size 16! That is NOT the tester.
That zebra should have a red light on it.
I prefer my normal shorts,
I prefer my normal shorts, those are a tad brief.
REALLY 45 POUNDS.
REALLY 45 POUNDS.
Aussie Col wrote:REALLY 45
Pretty reasonable. I think it’s about par for the course. Here’s the Rapha equivalent (itself fairly reasonable price).
http://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/shop/merino-boxers-with-pad/product/USH01
They did have a women’s version but I can’t find it.
Good way to start a pile-up
Good way to start a pile-up behind you.
Approved B-)
They’re not hivis!
although
They’re not hivis!
although riding dressed like that would get most people noticed, although with my hairy arse, probably for the wrong reasons
Are they partly black? I can
Are they partly black? I can only see white stripes and missing areas – as anyone knows, black = invisible. Apparently.
The bike in the background is
The bike in the background is very ‘retro’—perhaps the garment is aimed at ‘hipsters’?
harman_mogul wrote:The bike
For those confused by the mention of a bike in the background, it’s concealed as a clever optical illusion. If you look very carefully for several minutes you may eventually notice the bike behind the model.
Christ, there’s a concrete
Christ, there’s a concrete pillar in the main pic. Didn’t see that before!
bendertherobot wrote:Christ,
I had to go back and check, you are right! Missed it completely first time.
Seriously though, aren’t the manufacturers looking for this kind of reaction? How many comments do you see on an article about mens bib shorts? The pose of the model and the fact that they have obviously selected a model equipped to best display the product suggests they are.
To those ladies who suggest that ‘men’ would be upset by similar comments about a man in underwear, certainly not from me. Go ahead and comment on lunch boxes and seat posts all you like, nothing wrong with friendly humorous banter. If it is targeted at a specific person, malicious or hateful then take rightful umbrage by all means but appreciate a tongue in cheek comment for what it is.
paulrbarnard wrote:
Seriously
she was asking for it, your Honour
VecchioJo wrote:paulrbarnard
she was asking for it, your Honour— paulrbarnard
If you mean asking for the ‘attention’ then yes. Asking to be attacked or humiliated or assaulted then absolutely not. Thats a very different thing. Looking for attention and getting it is very different from getting unwanted attention.
paulrbarnard wrote:VecchioJo
she was asking for it, your Honour— VecchioJo
If you mean asking for the ‘attention’ then yes. Asking to be attacked or humiliated or assaulted then absolutely not. Thats a very different thing. Looking for attention and getting it is very different from getting unwanted attention.— paulrbarnard
i would suggest that many of the comments here are of the unwanted attention kind as they make no mention of the product, some would even see them as a kind of an attack or assault, because it doesn’t always have to be physical, and it’s most definitely humiliating
paulrbarnard
Frankly Assos man does nothing for me. Assos woman is lush. But that’s not because she’s a girl. She just looks more normal.
I’d be very very interested to see Alex O’Laughlin or Hugh Jackman wear the Assos bibs instead. Though I think both would look better in Castelli.
paulrbarnard wrote:
Seriously
How do you propose that manufacturers market women’s underwear? Under a burka so as not to overexcite the boys? You might have “this kind of reaction”, but you don’t have to post it to a forum. This is not taking umbrage at friendly banter – I have no idea who you are so what makes it friendly, and not intimidating? Using “humour” in this way excludes women from the conversation, whether you want to acknowledge that or not.
I read the reviews for the men’s clothes, and see discussions underneath; current owners giving their opinion, questions asked and answered so that people can make a more informed buying decision. The “friendly humour” discussion the model’s assets means that few women will comment on the product for fear of having the same mindless comments directed at them.
Good review of a tricky
Good review of a tricky product to sell. The women’s not-quite-sportswear and not-really-lingerie market is a bit of a niche one, and selling what is essentially a functional piece of kit made to look attractive, but not really made for people to look at is enough to make a marketers head spin.
I know women who recoil in horror at the ‘girlification’ of sports kit; all that flowery or pink and frilly stuff, and others who welcome not looking like a curvy bloke. Hopefully, and the various chimp comments ignored, this is a sign of a growing market which offers the choice to women.
crikey wrote:Good review of a
err, I just thought “nice arse” 🙂
Yes, and plainly not the
Yes, and plainly not the tester’s!
I say, mods, when are you going to step in and terminate this laddish banter?
and the various chimp
and the various chimp comments ignored
It’s a good job that one of the things that stops women engaging in sport isn’t the way men objectify them and comment on their appearance, isn’t it?
FFS.
My wife stopped running around our area because she got fed up of the constant comments from men in the street.
My daughter got fed up of being asked if she’d ‘like a fuck?’ on the way home from college.
Think about it, just for a minute. Think about the way half the people in the country might feel a little teeny bit uncomfortable with being the object of puerile misogynistic comments. I’m presuming that the way women might think won’t actually trouble a number of the commenters on here…
Jesus Christ, just close the
Jesus Christ, just close the comments already. This is tragic.
Tragic but instructive.
Look
Tragic but instructive.
Look at the nice middle class cyclists and look even harder at the attitudes they openly express towards women when they can’t be readily identified.
Sad, really.
This image is a disgrace. I
This image is a disgrace. I mean orange bar tape ……… sacrilege!
Just playing devil’s advocate
Just playing devil’s advocate here but…
How many women do you think actually read (or contribute) to the comments section of a relatively obscure cycling website?
I would think that they are far too sensible to waste their time on here or get their bib shorts in a twist over some (admittedly) infantile barrack room humour.
Believe it or not chaps, not everyone reads the Guardian. Shocking, eh?
HalfWheeler wrote:Just
Some of us do – there are precious few sites offering reviews for women – and any chance of a conversation we might have had on the relative merits of the knickers has probably been destroyed by the “infantile barrack room humour”. It doesn’t do a lot to make women feel welcome.
HalfWheeler wrote:
How many
I think you’re confusing comments made in private with comments made and recorded for eternity on a public forum. Besides, you don’t need to be a regular reader of an obscure cycling website to see the comments, you just need to google for reviews of the item you’re interested in. Not very obscure now, is it.
So it’s perfectly OK to be
So it’s perfectly OK to be sexist (or racist, or misogynist or any other kind of ..ist you want to be) as long as the people you are being …ist about don’t read it?
Really?
Seriously?
You’re not actually being any kind of Devils advocate are you?
You’re being dim.
crikey wrote:So it’s
“In common parlance, a devil’s advocate is someone who, given a certain argument, takes a position they do not necessarily agree with (or simply an alternative position from the accepted norm), for the sake of debate”
Which is what I’m doing. Now, who’s being dim?
Great review of a product I
Great review of a product I had seen on kickstarter a while ago thank you road.cc – I do appreciate the reviews of women’s cycling gear which are too few and far between.
What a shame so many (I presume) men have deemed it appropriate to leave sexist and moronic comments about the picture of the model in this article. It’s disappointing, but not surprising.
Well done for smashing down those stereotypes, lads. :S
Very disappointed with the
Very disappointed with the sad chauvinist comments here.
You should be embarrassed.
“phooooarrrr, look at the meaty cock on him! Bet his balls are smooth! His shaved legs look FINE! Check out his seatpost..”
Yeah, didn’t think so.
Does the blank and white
Does the blank and white stripy design remind anyone else of that ‘dazzle’ camouflage they used to paint ships back in WW1?
Not the usual Road.cc model.
Not the usual Road.cc model. Having been criticised (although not by road.cc) for commenting on the fact that there were people who could make the clothes look better you seemed to have succumbed to doing exactly that.
Colin Peyresourde wrote:Not
I don’t get paid enough to deal with the nasty, vicious, hurtful comments made about my, my daughters’, my friends’ bodies when we do product photos on ourselves, so a me in pants shot wasn’t going to happen.
It shouldn’t be about who makes the clothes look ‘better’ as we are trying to show people what they look like in real life. The personalisation of comments to the model not the kit on every single piece of women’s kit we test means that we have had to change to including manufacturer shots as either the main or only images, so as to dissuade people from commenting on the person and try to get them to read the review.
The solution? For every single reader who sees an inappropriate comment to call the author on it. Tell them it’s not acceptable, that you don’t agree and that they shouldn’t be posting sexist/nasty/personal comments.
Criticise the product, criticise my writing, but my arse is not up for debate.
With thanks to those who have used comments to post their feelings on the kit or called other people on their comments. It is appreciated.
Hi Caroline. Your reviews are
Hi Caroline. Your reviews are the main reason I started coming to this site. There aren’t many sites doing proper reviews of women’s cycling gear and, from the comments above, I can see why. Thank you for doing it. I appreciate it.
Caroline Dodgson wrote:
I
I think that is a better approach – my point which I have been trying to make, albeit one I know you don’t agree with, is that the review is almost a selling point. You don’t take grainy out of focus pictures of bicycles, tools, and other things which show them in unflattering positions. If I am thinking about buying one of those items I would like to see it in a slightly flattering picture. The manufacturers pictures probably do that in the best way they can. I learn nothing from a photo of a muddy bike/bike computer/light.
That’s not to say that real world pictures aren’t useful, but this is a visual medium, pictures sell the print as much as anything else.
Colin Peyresourde
I think that is a better approach – my point which I have been trying to make, albeit one I know you don’t agree with, is that the review is almost a selling point. You don’t take grainy out of focus pictures of bicycles, tools, and other things which show them in unflattering positions. If I am thinking about buying one of those items I would like to see it in a slightly flattering picture. The manufacturers pictures probably do that in the best way they can. I learn nothing from a photo of a muddy bike/bike computer/light.
That’s not to say that real world pictures aren’t useful, but this is a visual medium, pictures sell the print as much as anything else.— Caroline Dodgson
I think in principle you have a point – but then if, for example, a pair of bibshorts are reviewed, there isn’t a slew of comments pointing out Dave’s lunchbox or whatever.
I wish Richard Keys was on
I wish Richard Keys was on this forum.
I could be wrong but I
I could be wrong but I believe the images of the model used are from the company that produce the product. Most likely because the reviewer and road.cc pre-empted the ridiculous misogynistic reaction from its readers. Sad, really…
As you were.
I don’t like the fact that
I don’t like the fact that the accusation of misogyny is sometimes used as readily and as inappropriately as anti-semitism.
Regardless of gender, there’s a high giggle factor when underwear is promoted by models standing around in settings where they wouldn’t normally be standing around in their underwear. In fact the marketing will often use the giggle factor as a tactic to avoid relying on being too overtly sexual.
The comments thread is too laddish. I don’t think there’s much wrong with most of the individual comments, or that anyone deserves to have been called a misogynist. However, the overall tone is inappropriate. None the less, I will continue to find picture of people standing around in public places in their underwear slightly amusing.
This is what misogyny
This is what misogyny is.
It’s a spectrum which assumes that women are less than men and which has absorbed years, decades, centuries of them being treated as second class people.
In terms of cycling, it’s the way that women are judged on their appearance in the context of their sex rather than any other metric. A pair of padded shorts for men would not produce the same comments because women are judged differently to men.
Above all it’s disappointing. It’s disappointing because I would have thought that men would know better than to comment in a way that wouldn’t dare to if they had to say it to the reviewer or the model face to face.
As noted above, it’s sad.
(and as for all the Oo-er Madam comments, although some thought has gone into the visual appearance of the shorts, there is no way, no way at all that any woman would wear these and think ‘Mmmm, how sexy am I with a big foam pad between my legs’…)
Quote:Which is what I’m
It’s still you, I’m afraid.
Making an inane comment then claiming to be a Devils advocate doesn’t excuse it.
A Devils advocate in this case would suggest that women like to be talked about in this way, and that wearing garments like this is done precisely to invite such comments, not as you suggested, that it doesn’t matter because women don’t read things here.
Jesus wept…going by some of
Jesus wept…going by some of the po-faced sanctimonious griping on here you wonder how they got on in a bunch. They must be a barrel of laughs at the club xmas party.
Lighten up ladies…
HalfWheeler wrote:Jesus
You may find dated sub carry-on film comments very funny but you must also appreciate that for many folks nowadays, perhaps female but also perhaps younger than you, perhaps used to a more diverse professional environment, perhaps who stayed at school a bit longer than you, that this kind of thing just comes across as a bit sad so it’s probably best to accept that rather than keep trying to defend it. If you like ‘barrackroom humour’ I’m sure there are other more suitable outlets on the internet, or an actual barrackroom of course. Just because someone doesn’t laugh at your jokes it doesn’t mean they lack a sense of humour, it could just be you are not very funny.
HalfWheeler wrote:Jesus
You only deserve half an answer to that post, so here is the word ‘off’. I’ll let you guess the first half.
Some of the attitudes on display here would be shameful at a Jim Davidson gig circa 1980. You’re an embarrassment.
Ah, nice change of approach.
Ah, nice change of approach. :))
I get on well with all the bunches I’ve ridden in, and I play Santa at the party.
I hope you pinch the girls
I hope you pinch the girls bums when they sit on your lap, Tina from accounts is a right hussy.
Ho ho ho.
Ho ho ho.
Pics 3 and 5 show the
Pics 3 and 5 show the garment.
Pics 1, 2 and 4 show an extremely fit female body wearing them outdoors. Are they to be worn without anything over them – if not, why show photos outdoors?
It’s a lovely bottom. It was deliberately a lovely bottom and not a flabby out of shape one. That’s what we are shown to display the product in an attractive light.
What is wrong with appreciating it out loud. Tell the model she has a lovely bottom – no problem. Say she has a lovely bottom on a forum -no problem. Nothing disrespectful or woman hating there.
The brainwash police are at work again.
It’s ok to be a bloke – really it is, and it’ll be a very sad world when people can’t make a joke or be what they are.
you can admire a nice bottom
you can admire a nice bottom without feeling the need to publicly comment on it, read Caroline Dodgson’s post again for why
Context matters, the article
Context matters, the article is a review and the comments aren’t exactly welcoming to the intended audience.
I’ll use a (possibly awful) analogy, which is the number of women I know who hate Page 3 and the sexualisation of music videos etc, but have no issue with pornography. The objection isn’t with portraying anyone as sexual, but with normalizing that as a default view.
If my part in the banter caused any offence, sorry. None intended. I still find the picture amusing, in that it’s slightly ridiculous. My work means I’ve been dealing with creatives and marketing people for years, and there’s big kid inside me that sees the comedy in most advertising.
I think it looks great. Very
I think it looks great. Very sexy looking and if a lady wears that on commute in London she will be greatly admired.
If that’s the case then I think the designer has done their job.
If any lady choose to wear them then they know what they are wearing and for what purpose.
Strewth! That girl’s figure
Strewth! That girl’s figure is absolutely stunning and she *really* makes those pants look good. Quite frankly, if the wearer looks that good, it should actually be a crime to wear anything over the top of them.
Sorry about that. Until I read this thread I didn’t realise that appreciating the beauty of women and being turned on by them … and worse of all … actually *saying* so … apparently marks me out as a misogynist and a sexist.
Surely, on this thread, the female comments are vastly more ‘man hating’ and judgemental than the male comments are supposedly ‘misogynistic’?
Joeinpoole wrote: Surely, on
I apologise if any of my comments have been taken as “man hating’. They weren’t meant in that way. They were meant as an attempt to explain how the “nice arse” comments exclude the women from the conversation (and let’s face it, the product is for women).
I think the most telling comment in the whole thread is along the lines of “women don’t read this anyway” – it’s OK if they don’t know about it. But we women have read it. We’ve been insulted by it, angered by it, and we have tried to explain why we don’t like it. Rather than accepting that we might be unhappy with the comments, we’ve been classed as man-hating party-poopers. Gee, thanks.
Dressmaking Cyclist wrote:
I
Blimey, you shouldn’t be the one apologising here. joeinpoole is serially “a bit dodgy” to say the least when it comes to comments to do with women and cycling. But I’m not sure he’s ever going to really understand why what he says is such a problem.
I would have shared this
I would have shared this review with my wife, who cycles a great deal more than I do and likes stylish and fun kit to ride in, but some of the pathetic comments here would make her feel like she’d entered a men’s football club locker room, and would very much dissuade her from asking for more information. Caroline (and Tony), would it not be appropriate to instigate active moderation for items which are likely to bring out the neanderthals?
TimC340 wrote:I would have
Why don’t you just point her at the website instead?
FWIW after all the fuss on here, I showed the picture to my wife (who has no interest cycling at all) who just said ‘nice bum, good for her’
stuartp wrote: FWIW after all
But she didn’t post it on this thread. That’s the difference. It’s got nothing to do with whether the model has a nice bum or not – she wouldn’t have been picked for the campaign if she didn’t , it’s to do with posting the opinion on the forum. It’s a product review. It’s not reviewing the model’s bum.
Although, as we only get shots of the bum, how can we be certain the model’s not a he – designers have been using Andrej Pejic on the catwalk for years because they think his figure show off women’s clothes better than a woman could…
stuartp wrote:TimC340 wrote:I
I did exactly that! But it would have been preferable that I could have sent her a link to this review without all the crap underneath it.
stuartp wrote:TimC340 wrote:I
Does she show you pictures of Mat Brett for you to say “nice bum, good for him” in reply?
TBH I think the pink lace
TBH I think the pink lace looks out of place. If they had to girly it up with lace, it should be white or black. Just my opinion, of course.
Do they do this sort of stuff for chaps? Different cut, no lace, natch. I’ve only come across stuff without padding, which I don’t really see the point in over bog-standard underwear.
truffy wrote:TBH I think the
Rapha do merino boxers in (lightly) padded and non-padded versions. Also Vulpine have something similar which Nick Hussey gets quite excited about the comfort of. I sometimes commute in the padded Rapha product under a pair of Ron Hills.
Depressingly predictable
Depressingly predictable comments.
I don’t understand why we’re still having this conversation.
Lifer wrote:Depressingly
It’s completely predictable. Road.cc is (should be) better than this. I’d like to see them commenting on this and taking a strong line against some of the crap that’s been posted. If they want to grow their female readership then they really don’t have a choice.
Woman model? My first thought
Woman model? My first thought was ‘Dave looks better modelling pants then he does modelling helmet covers. 😀
… My other thought was that
… My other thought was that as the pants ‘stripes’ run predominately horizontal they are technically, in fashion terms, hooped or banded pants not striped. Stripes are vertical, bands of hoops horizontal.
I have no comment on the quality of the model. I do enjoy watching Carry On films so in the style of Kenneth Connor ‘fworrrrrrrrr’.
Erm, this is a review of some
Erm, this is a review of some cycling clothing. On a cycling website. There are plenty of other sites on the internets (I am led to believe) where scantily clad or even unclad ladies can be viewed.
Grow up people.
SteppenHerring wrote:Erm,
Indeed there are, but they are probably more difficult to explain to your IT department or SO should they question your browsing history.
With you 100 per cent on the “grow up” comment.
Why does this thread have 68
Why does this thread have 68 comments and the Giro Men’s jacket has 4?
Oh right……
wow, this all got well out of
wow, this all got well out of hand.
its a great concept to be honest, obviously they would be worn underneath something.
i wouldnt cycle down the road in just my y fronts and all that,
at least it gives girls the option to wear something flattering and comfortable as a casual cyclist.
Is it true, are there
Is it true, are there actually ‘nasty and vicious’ comments made about that author’s body when she models the cycling gear herself on this site?
unconstituted wrote:Is it
Yes, but many more on our facebook page. We delete the nastiest ones. Even my 8 year old had a nasty comment about what she was wearing in a bike test shot. It’s the reason other female reviewers stopped having their photos taken too.
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+what a lot of grumpy gits.
+what a lot of grumpy gits.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30069564
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A
Then google gamergate and do a _lot_ of reading.
By the way as a possible solution for road.cc what about using a tailors dummy?
i don’t find this comments
i don’t find this comments thread embarrassing. It may show how far we have to go, but it also shows how far we have come. Not that long ago there would have been no argument about the ‘nice arse’ comments. Now we’re in a transitional time where some people get it and some don’t, but at least the needle is moving.
Oh and btw I’m perfectly relaxed, feel no need to lighten up and am definitely not grumpy.
Anyone kicking off about the
Anyone kicking off about the comments needs to go check a review of the Assos shorts with the cuckoo pouch or whatever it’s called.
It’s not limited to reviews of women’s stuff.
People need to stop being such oversensitive hypocrites.
The girls FIT what’s wrong
The girls FIT what’s wrong with that ??
yenrod wrote:The girls FIT
Nothing, but you can’t say so here.
Firstly it’s misogynistic and you’ll get the politically correct teaboys all a’dither.
Secondly, you can only see her butt. That is fit, I grant you. But she might have a face like a walrus.
truffy wrote:yenrod wrote:The
Actually, it is wrong. Of course, you should have said, “The girl’s FIT. What’s wrong with that?”
Just saying….
80 comments. Lol..
80 comments. Lol..
I only just recovered from
I only just recovered from the first time these images were posted. I had to go and lie down and I think I shall have to go and lie down again seeing this lovely rear of the year again.
BUT DOES HER BIKE HAVE
BUT DOES HER BIKE HAVE MUDGUARDS?
Has this review been reposted
Has this review been reposted to the front page to hit a web traffic target or something?
Nick T wrote:Has this review
I was just wondering the same thing. I really hope this was somehow re-posted in error. Can someone from road.cc explain?
ashfanman wrote:Nick T
I really hope this isn’t a cynical clickbait job. Mind you, the road.cc content system does seem to be a bit eccentric – a couple of weeks back stories were being added (and posted to Twitter) but never appearing on the front page for several days, while some stories do randomly disappear and reappear. So it’s possible this review has been bumped up accidentally.
Bit depressing to see the same sort of “I’d hit that”/”it’s not wrong to say she’s fit” comments coming back out this time too.
If not an error then it seems
If not an error then it seems road.cc is run by some guys who haven’t quite grown up yet.
I think the goal is to make
I think the goal is to make this go above 100 comments. Let me help: She isn’t wearing a helmet! Discuss.
Can you say “I’d hit that
Can you say “I’d hit that like a Storm Trooper hitting a tree on the forest moon of Endor?” :))
Probably lots of contributors
Probably lots of contributors on holiday and they’re struggling for content. In order to keep the hits up, they’re rehashing some controversial clickbait.
Road.cc close the comments
Road.cc close the comments please as we are back in the world of casual misogyny. Yawn some men don’t ever seem to leave the playground mentally.
cant we all just play nicely
cant we all just play nicely together and not fall out?
Can everyone hold of for 5
Can everyone hold of for 5 mins….I need more tea and biscuits.
Let’s all be honest here.
Let’s all be honest here. Every single one of us is only here because guys fancy gals and vice versa. I see nothing remotely sinister about a guy saying ‘Nice bum!’ about a girl who has, let’s face it, got rather a nice bum.
Wow, I’m searching for a
Wow, I’m searching for a cycling friend I can give one to 😉
Coming to this late, but some
Coming to this late, but some of you were wondering why this got re-published. Some talk of “clickbait”.
Er, no we put it back on because one of our reviewers called in some more of these from Urbanist without realising we’d already tested them – and she’d started testing them before we realised the error so we couldn’t send them back. Urbanist aren’t a massive company and that was a cost to them so to make amends we re-published the original review. That’s it.
As for the comments, underwear model in nice bum… er shocker. I’d also have to say that while compliments are fine as long as they’re not crude and the ones here don’t cross the line for me at least – our other tester didn’t want to model these either.
As this is the internet there is every chance that the person you’re commenting about is going to read that comment – no surprise then that we used a stock shot. If you wouldn’t make that comment to their face probably best not make it at all – most people male or female don’t want to risk having aspects of their anatomy critiqued by strangers.
Nobody ever seems to comment on the shapeliness, or otherwise of our male testers’ posteriors. Maybe that’s down to the gender balance of our audience – it might be good if they did.
Finally most of the traffic this review has and will get comes from search – that’ll be women searching for cycling briefs.
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