Sportful Pro bib tights review

The thermal Sportful Pro bib tights are designed to keep you riding hard in cold weather, but we reckon the brand needs to lose the knee flaps

Sportful Pro bib tights
(Image credit: Hannah Bussey)
Cycling Weekly Verdict

Ticking big winter apparel riding boxes of wind and rain repellence, warmth without overheating and comfort makes the fairly priced Sportful Pro bib tights a great option, but the unnecessary novelty knee flaps lets them down. 

Reasons to buy
  • +

    Overall fit

  • +

    Breathability

  • +

    Water and rain repellence

  • +

    Warmth

  • +

    Pad comfort

Reasons to avoid
  • -

    Knee flaps

  • -

    Position of reflective details

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Professional level winter kit has a hard brief to fill: it has to keep riders warm, without overheating and stop the rain getting in, while letting water vapour out. It's a dichotomy of needs, but have the Sportful Pro bib tights nailed it?

Pro rider winter kit

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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.