Originally Posted by
camhabib
No elastic waistband takes the pressure off your waistline and is generally less restricting, especially if you are..... well built.
Never been an issue for me in 30 years of riding, but I'm only 170-ish.
Originally Posted by
Nick29
I agree with all of the reasons given so far, but here's one that will become more important when you start going on group rides: no matter how fat or skinny you are, nobody wants to spend a few hours with your sweaty asscrack staring them in the face in a pace line. Bibs completely eliminate the possibility of that happening.
This is true. In the "old days" jerseys were cut long and overlapped the shorts. Now they're cut short with a waistband so shorts can have advertising on the butt without getting covered up. Glad I still have a few old school jerseys.