Which cycling shorts for women are best? Bike seats are not usually very comfortable, and you can go through some painful chafing if you are cycling for a long time and wearing normal shorts.

Early cycling was reserved for the upper-classes and was seen as highly fashionable and decorous – particularly for men. Women’s cycling, on the other hand, was viewed as trivial and unbecoming.

While the first edition of the UAE Tour Women was in 2023 - won by Elisa Longo Borghini - there could have been a race a few ...