Pearl Izumi Women's Elite Pursuit Bib Shorts review

Can the minimal design of the Pearl Izumi Women's Elite Pursuit Bib Shorts chamios still deliver a luxury ride?

Pearl Izumi Women's Elite Pursuit Bib Shorts
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Cycling Weekly Verdict

The women's specific Pearl Izumi Women's Elite Pursuit Bib Shorts provide a lot of bang for your buck in terms of form and function. The chamois is excellent, as are the race fit shorts. The bib upper could do with simplifying, but overall they're a great pair of shorts that are idea for training, race day or sportive. 

Reasons to buy
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    Fit

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    Chamios

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    Leg grippers

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    UV protection

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    Cooling

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    Easy comfort breaks

Reasons to avoid
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    Weight

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    Robust bib upper

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Naming bib shorts after one of the purist cycling disciplines is a brave move. Not only does it mean that that the shorts have to be up to racing standards where every element is placed under the microscope, but also that no stone is left unturned in the quest for technological enhancements.

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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.