Cadence Collection 10-4 shorts review

We've tested the Cadence Collection 10-4 shorts. They're a casual design with a lot of stretch and made of water resistant fabric. But they do come up small.

Cycling Weekly Verdict

A comfortable pair of casual riding shorts. They’ve got technical bike-specific features built in, but come up small and lack some design components which would make them more versatile.

Reasons to buy
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    Well finished

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    Stretchy material

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    Water resistant

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    Reinforced seat area

Reasons to avoid
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    Come up small

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    No zipped or buttoned pockets

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Cadence Collection is the brainchild of Californian designer Dustin Klein. It makes small runs of technical cycling kit which have distinctive designs. Alongside its more technical clothing, Cadence also produces a range of more casual, lifestyle clothing, including bike specific jeans, hoodies and tee shirts.

Its 10-4 shorts follow the cycling-casual idiom. They’re made of a fabric which is 88% nylon and 12% lycra, so there’s masses of stretch built in. They are also water resistant, so a shower or road damp will just roll off them, which is a useful attribute in our changeable conditions.

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.