While we all love a good pair of bib shorts, they're often accompanied by mid-ride pits stops fraught with the prospect of de-layering, identifying a sanitary location to set your jersey, and then wrestling with clammy arm bands against damp skin to get everything back into place. Keep your bibs and lose those pit stop blues with the innovative halter top design of Giro's Chrono Expert Halter Women's Bib Shorts. This design brings all the comfortable benefits of traditional bibs while facilitating uncomplicated nature breaks that don't require jersey removal, so you can be back in the saddle in no time.

The shorts feature compressive nylon and elastane to provide muscle support and breathable comfort, while the mesh bibs offer unbeatable cooling and moisture management during warm-weather rides. Just as important, the women-specific Chrono CyTech chamois provides lightweight and breathable cushioning to make your long rides roll by even more smoothly. A radio pocket in back lets you securely stow keys, an ID, and other small necessities, while reflective elements increase visibility to other roads users in low-light conditions.

Depending on who you ask, bib-free shorts are either far more, or far less, comfortable than their bibbed cousins. Wherever you may stand on the issue, Giro constructed its women's Chrono Pro Shorts to appeal to both sides of the fence. With a wide, flat waistband reminiscent of a favorite pair of yoga pants along with a knit lumbar panel to lend support to lower back muscles, the Chrono Pro was designed with ride-enhancing comfort in mind.

Giro constructs the shorts primarily out of an Italian Lycra that gives the shorts a body-hugging, contoured fit that will hold its shape without shifting or stretching. The knit lumbar support panel provides a more compressive fit to help prevent aching lower back muscles, while the fabric panels work together to draw moisture away from your skin as you ride. Giro's Chrono Expert Chamois lines the shorts, providing a mix of support and relief as you pedal with a breathable, multi-density arrangement of foam shaped specifically for women.

Revolutionizing the manner in which female cyclists suit up for daily rides, the Giro Women's Chrono Sport Halter Bib Short does away with pesky bibs in favor of a comfort-enhancing, pitstop-friendly halter strap. This innovative design not only provides the same level of support you've come to love from bib straps, but just as importantly, it's much easier to handle on bathroom breaks by not requiring removal of your jersey. Suddenly, bathroom breaks are easier and more efficient, especially since you don't have to locate a sanitary zone to place your jersey in a gas station or roadside stop bathroom.

It's based off the supportive design of the Chrono Expert Halter Bib Short, but employs a stretchier, more forgiving fabric. Breathable mesh halter straps won't drench you in perspiration when it's layered under your favorite cycling jersey. And seeing that you'll be riding long distances, the Custom Chrono Cytech chamois dissipates vibration transmitted through your stiff road frame with its thermo-bonded open cell padding that's thickest at center, and tapers along the sides for greater mobility. This chamois is lined with a smooth microfiber that virtually eliminates chafing, then finished with a bacteriostatic treatment.

• Halter-style bibs promote quick bathroom breaks
• Stretchy fabric balances riding comfort with support
• Breathable mesh halter straps for upright stability
• Chrono Cytech chamois reduces pressure and vibration
• Microfiber chamois lining eliminates discomfort
• Reflective detail stands out on the road

Every bike ride doesn't have to be a hammerfest, a snot-bubble TT, or an epic day of QOMs. Sometimes a ride can just be a ride, the kind of day when we leave stressful ambitions at home and are more interested in the arc of a smile and the turn of the cranks than rise and fall of power output graphs while segment hunting. Giro builds the Chrono Sport Women's Shorts for those days, which makes them ideally suited for what so often turn out to be our favorite days in the saddle.

The Sport's body is made from a nylon/spandex blend that's shaped to distil the shorts down to the most basic level of long-mile functionality. The material lacks the compression of Giro's top-tier Chrono Pro Shorts, but the shorts are finished with a stretch waist band and Giro's Custom Sport Chamois, details that demonstrate Giro's efforts to privilege comfort over flash.

Everybody loves merino wool, so it was a no brainer for Giro to use it in the New Road Women's Boy Shorts. It does seriously everything. It's warm in the winter, cool in the summer, stretchy, breathable, moisture wicking, and naturally odor resistant, so you'll be hard pressed to find a situation in which the New Road doesn't work well and feel great--we've even had reports of people wearing them as casual shorts, even with the lightweight built-in HP Tri chamois. Of course, bike shorts have to be sensible, too, so Giro wove nylon fibers into the merino, which adds a welcome shot of durability, and finished the New Road off with a non-binding waistband that won't slip down, ride up, or cause discomfort.

• Nycore merino wool blend
• Form fit
• HP Tri chamois
• Non-binding waistband

One of the nice things about Giro's apparel collection is that every piece works just as well off the bike as it does on. That being said, its designers still created several items that lean more in one direction or the other, using features and fabrics as giveaways as to the main intent of where they're most at home. Such is the case with the Women's Ride Classic Overshorts, which of course function perfectly well off of the bike, but really shine while in the saddle.

In order to create a modern-looking, fitted pair of shorts that pull double duty, Giro went with a predominantly nylon fabric. The obvious benefits of nylon are the ability to wick moisture, keep the body cool, and breathe well, and by adding in a flexible spandex to the equation, the shorts move with the legs while in the cycling position.

The shorts were strategically cut to stretch and move efficiently and effortlessly, while retaining that sleek, fitted look. The lack of extra clutter is a clue that these shorts were built first and foremost for riding, but there is a hidden-zipper thigh pocket and two rear pockets for the essentials. Pair these with Giro's Undershorts for the ultimate riding support, or wear them alone for more casual rides.

The Giro Ride Classic Overshorts - Women's are available in even sizes 2 through 12 and in the colors Griffin and Jet Black.