Originally Posted by
a1penguin
1000 is 6 weeks of riding for me. The $70 (on sale) Performance Elite cycling shorts have 15k miles on them. Still in decent shape. Glad I snagged a second pair on the sale rack as they changed the chamois the next year and it felt like wearing a diaper.
So the argument for $200+ bib shorts is that if I spend $1,000 on them they will last 75,000 miles? There are no other tangible benefits?