Santini REA 2.0 bib-shorts review

Promising a reduction in muscle fatigue and a match for any jersey for any riding occasion, we gave the Santini REA 2.0 bib-shorts a whirl

Cycling Weekly Verdict

A comfortable pair of women's specific bib-shorts with an excellent chamois, but form doesn’t quite follow function and the grey piping loses the Santini REA 2.0 bib-shorts finesse to make these truly a classic little black number.

Reasons to buy
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    Women's specific

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    UPV protection

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    Comfortable

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    Excellent Chamois

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    Reflective detailing

Reasons to avoid
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    Lack finess

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In a world of fluro colours and head-to-toe matching ensembles, it can be hard to find classic, yet high performance bib-shorts. So has Santini, with the REA 2.0, delivered the ultimate little black number that we all need in our cycling wardrobe?

>>>Buy the Santini REA 2.0 bib-shorts for only £80.99, saving 10%, at Chain Reaction Cycles

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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.