Castelli Sorpasso 2 W bib tights review

Designed for the ultimate fit, but can the women's specific Castelli Sorpasso 2 W bib tights deliver function as well as form?

Castelli Sorpasso 2 W bib tights
Cycling Weekly Verdict

The women's specific Castelli Sorpasso 2 W bib tights provide a skin tight, pro fit and fantastic temperature regulation between 5 -12 degrees - making these a go to choice for most of the colder months.  

Reasons to buy
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    Fit

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    Insulated

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    Breathability

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    Reflective details

Reasons to avoid
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    Tight upper

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    Wide Chamios

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Until relatively recently, if you wanted decent high performance women's winter kit, then Castelli was your (wo)man. Only one other cycling clothing brand, Assos, could come close to producing high performance female form, fit and function.

With the price tag often ruling that option out, it was down to the Italian super power to keep me out on the bike through the winter months.

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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.