I can't say the Castelli stuff I've tried (which admittedly is not bib shorts) I rate any higher than the top tier DHB stuff.
You're probably right, admittedly I've not got top tier DHB shorts, I equally haven't got top tier Castelli. So my midrange DHB shorts experience (
Flashlight £36,
old Aeron £30 &
Shard £54) compared to my low range Castelli (
Evoluzione £45-60). The Castelli's are more comfortable over any reasonable distance but after 4 hours I do get a bit of numbness. The longest I've worn any of the DHB's was around 3 hours (shard & aeron) and I wouldn't want to do any more, had saddle sores quite badly from the Aeron. I got them slightly after wearing the Flashlight last week for around 1hr30. I find the pads in all of the DHB's, although are a bigger size than the Castelli, they really start to compress and the amount of comfort/padding you get from them rapidly decreases. I've also found them start to move around but I've put that down to me losing weight and not the fabric/pad changing. My Castelli's haven't suffered from this but none of them are a year old (yet!). I find the pad on the Castelli's quite firm which has lead to some numbness, I've had less issue with this from my Sportfuls which have a generally wider pad & will probably order some summer pairs of them.
I tend to buy my bibs in the offseason, you can get decent castelli for that price then. But if you needed them now then you are going to pay the premium what ever you buy.
I think this is it, I picked up my Evoluzione's for £45 a pair last autumn and they've never been on as good a sale again on Wiggle, even over winter!
Don't look so bad I think!
They look like the front one in the flesh.
Better picture but still not the rim's I'd choose look wise on that frame. The frame is gloss with bold broad solid colour swathes. The cosmic carbides have a matt look due to the bare carbon with very subtle logo's when I think they'd look better bright white and stood out! More in keeping with the style of Cervélo's logos. but guess that's just personal preference. Still an awesome bike!
I really don't know how I haven't chucked my Garmin 810 down a drain yet... 20 mins into ride and it shuts off again... it seems to be doing it recently without even using navigation.
In other news joined the knee warmer club today with some Planet X cheapo merino ones. Quite nice even though there's only about 2 inches of each calf showing so almost leg warmers!
Weather for the Velothon Wales isn't looking great at all this weekend... I think I'm going to have to take a whole range of clothing and see how the weather is looking in the morning.
My 810 has been a pain too, but recently just with sync'ing. Takes me 4-5 forced restarts just to get it to 'autosync' to Garmin connect.
Have a great time at the Velothon, be prepared for anything as coming north you'll get changes in the weather regardless of what it's like in Cardiff! Abergavenny (Tumble) can be totally different weather to Hereford, they're only 25 miles apart! Although weirdly it's usually warmer than here!?
Can get far better quality for that price if you buy at the wrong time if that makes sense. No way would I be paying that much for DHB its OK as a budget option.
