Sportful Fiandre NoRain Women's bib tights review

Bib tights that offer water and wind resistance, and are still comfortable to ride in, can be hard to find – and harder still are women’s-specific options, so we gave the Sportful Fiandre NoRain Women's bib tights a ride to see if they're what winter bike ride dreams are made of

Sportful Fiandre NoRain Women’s bib tights
Cycling Weekly Verdict

The women’s-specific Sportful Fiandre NoRain Women's bib tights make bold claims of windproofing and water-resistant abilities and deliver. Sportful has come up with some simple yet innovative ways of keeping you warm and dry with these bib tights, which are suitable from late autumn to early spring. With reflective detailing and an almost perfect chamois these are pretty close to being the ultimate women’s winter bib tights.

Reasons to buy
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    Water resistant

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    Windproof

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    Warm

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    Additional back water resistance

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    Comfortable chamios

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    Women's-specific fit

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Reasons to avoid
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    None

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Over the years, Sportful has gradually been upping its game in terms of providing decent women’s-specific winter kit, with the Sportful Fiandre NoRain Women's bib tights one of its more recent additions.

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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.