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Castelli Women's Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £130 on Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 review we’re going to look at why it scores 8.9/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 733 products in the Shorts – Cycle category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

9.6

Price

8.9

Reviews

8.3

Overall

8.9

 

Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 reviews

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Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 Specification

Castelli Women's Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 specs

Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18
Feature 1

Back Material: 74% Polyamide, 26% Elastane

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 1

Feature 2

Bottom Legs: 48% Polyester, 52% Elastane

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Main Material: 79% Polyamide, 21% Elastane

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 3

Feature 4

Vortex dimpled fabric on legs for aero performance

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 7

Feature 5

Forza fabric on inner legs with 38% Lycra® content for perfect fit

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 7

Feature 6

Carre engineered lie-flat bib strap construction for minimal coverage, maximum comfort

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 1

Feature 7

GIRO Air mesh-like leg gripper elastic for better grip distributed over larger area

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 1

Feature 8

Flat-lock stitching

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 17

Feature 9

Reflective detailing on back

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 5

Feature 10

Women’s-specific Progetto X2 Air Donna seat pad for even greater comfort

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 1

Feature 11

Highly breathable material

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 1

Feature 12

Lightweight: 149g

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this feature: 1

Spec 1

Colour: Black

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this spec: 1

Spec 2

Clothing Size: XS

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this spec: 1

Spec 3

Gender: Female

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this spec: 3

Spec 4

Age Group: Adult

Other Shorts – Cycle found with this spec: 7

Price

£130

Number of Reviews

5

Review Score

4.8 / 5

Average score in category: 4.1

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  • Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts. Castelli’s Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts are designed to give incredible comfort and aerodynamic performance whether you race or simply like to ride on the rivet The lightweight construction and incredibly breathable fabrics of the Women’s Free Aero shorts make them pertfectly suited to warmer weather riding. Not only that, with the vortex dimpled fabrics to the legs you can be sure of slipper aerodynamics as you speed along. The 38% Lycra on the inner legs creates the perfect fit and allows for unrestrictive pedalling while the women’s specific Progetto X2 Air Donna pad guarantees unrivalled on-the-saddle support ¬†To the top the lie-flat bib strap construction supports the shorts with a barely-there feel and with minimised coverage you’ll enjoy excellent ventilation to the body. Lastly, the leg ends utilise Castelli’s Giro Air mesh gripper, its deep and airy construction spreading pressure evenly for greater comfort Castelli have continually developed this women’s race short, adding new fabrics, improving construction techniques and refined the fit to bring it to where it is today – the ultimate top-level race short ¬†Features: Back Material:¬†74% Polyamide, 26% ElastaneBottom Legs: 48% Polyester, 52% ElastaneMain Material: 79% Polyamide, 21% ElastaneVortex dimpled fabric on legs for aero performanceForza fabric on inner legs with 38% Lycra¬Æ content for perfect fitCarre engineered lie-flat bib strap construction for minimal coverage, maximum comfortGIRO Air mesh-like leg gripper elastic for better grip distributed over larger areaFlat-lock stitchingReflective detailing on backWomen’s-specific Progetto X2 Air Donna seat pad for even greater comfortHighly breathable materialLightweight: 149gBuy Castelli Clothing from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 8055688599539
  • CS150441101

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Shorts – Cycle.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 733 different products in the Shorts – Cycle category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 360 products from Castelli (although only 30 of the 360 are in the Shorts – Cycle category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Shorts – Cycle. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Castelli. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Shorts – Cycle. There are 733 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 733, the average price is £75.62. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £8 and most expensive was £270.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Castelli. The average price was £71.33 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £7 up to £340 with Castelli products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Castelli products that appear specifically in the Shorts – Cycle category. So you can see that the price of Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 at £130 is great value considering the average price of Castelli Shorts – Cycle is £110.48 and the price varies from £29.25.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £130 which represents a £ or saving against RRP. If you think Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Shorts – Cycle too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 5 reviews scoring it 4.8 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Castelli. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Shorts – Cycle category is 4.1 and the average score of products from Castelli is 4.4 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Castelli in the Shorts – Cycle category the average review score is 4.3.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 such a high overall score of 8.9 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 5 reviews for Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 which score it 4.8, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Castelli Women’s Free Aero Bib Shorts SS18 or in fact any of the other Shorts – Cycle, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.