Sportful Giara W shorts review

Designed for off-the-beaten-track adventures, we test the the Sportful Giara W shorts to see if they deliver form and function

Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Sportful Giara W shorts are reasonably comfortable, but remedial work required to give the shorts a 'good enough' fit isn't what you should expect from a £65 pair of shorts. 

Reasons to buy
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    Look good

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    Part of a wider Sportful Giara range

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    Reflective detailing

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Reasons to avoid
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    Require remedial work to ensure wearable fit

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For a brand accustomed to dressing the likes of Vicenzo Nibali and Alberto Contador in their respective team kit, adventuring onto the dark side of gravel roading is certainly a change of direction for Sportful.

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Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.


Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.


For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 


She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.