Cycling shorts

The trousers are a skin-tight, usually short ( leg above the knee) trousers for cycling. With Cycling Shorts Leggings are colloquially since the 1990s usually meant with a short, ending above the knee leg. There are also long or 3 /4 length shorts.

In contrast to cycling leggings, which are intended more as everyday clothes, cycling shorts are designed to meet the needs of cyclists in the often hours of driving and therefore have a seat insert from doeskin or synthetic material. Synthetic inserts are made ​​of leather almost ousted because they require no special care. This insert is stiffer than the rest of trousers and carries ( from the outside clearly ) quite strongly to. The intersection of the seat insert is gender-specific: For men's shorts, it is significantly longer than in models for women as it is to protect the running of perineal nerves and blood vessels, such as the pudendal nerve and the internal pudendal artery before crushing. High-quality inserts prevent heat build-up, are made of antibacterial material, have different degrees of padding ( between two and ten millimeters) and are usually made seamless.

Typically shorts are worn without underwear, so that the (usually seam-free ) seat cushion rests directly on the skin to prevent chafing. In addition, seat cushion and seat are often brushed with cream or baby deer for this purpose on long trips.

As material for the pants now serves mostly a nylon - spandex blend fabric that allows skin-tight fit through its extensibility, the abundant produced by the cyclist sweat from the skin of the wearer and has derived so displaces the wool used previously. Shorts are available as a collar or bib shorts, the carrier pant has the advantage not to push the belly of the cyclist.

A special form are Timetrailsuits or One Piece that bring aerodynamic advantages over the classic combination of cycling shorts and cycling jersey especially.

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