Café du Cycliste Rosalie sports bra review

A high-end sports bra that offers light support and breathability

Cycling Weekly Verdict

Café du Cycliste’s stylish sports bra offering leans a little further to the side of breathability rather than support. This isn’t necessarily an issue as for me a race fit jersey provides just enough extra compression to keep everything locked down. The only negatives are how it digs in slightly under the arms and the lack of options for those with bigger boobs.

Reasons to buy
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    Quick wicking

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    Not restrictive

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    Acceptable support

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    Seamless

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    Subtle style

Reasons to avoid
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    A little tight on the underarms

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    Range of sizes a little small

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With shoulder straps from cycling bib shorts complicating matters, it is not so easy for us female cyclists to find a sports bra that plays nicely while providing sufficient support and breathability.

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Anna Marie Abram
Fitness Features Editor

I’ve been hooked on bikes ever since the age of 12 and my first lap of the Hillingdon Cycle Circuit in the bright yellow kit of the Hillingdon Slipstreamers. For a time, my cycling life centred around racing road and track. 

But that’s since broadened to include multiday two-wheeled, one-sleeping-bag adventures over whatever terrain I happen to meet - with a two-week bikepacking trip from Budapest into the mountains of Slovakia being just the latest.

I still enjoy lining up on a start line, though, racing the British Gravel Championships and finding myself on the podium at the enduro-style gravel event, Gritfest in 2022.

Height: 177cm

Weight: 60–63kg