Men's Compression Shorts – Unpadded Cycling Shorts with Phone and Bottle Pockets

Five Pockets. No Saddle Bag. Nothing Bouncing.

Two hours out on a hot morning you want a second bottle, a couple of gels and your phone. The usual answers are a saddle bag that rattles over every cattle grid, a frame bag your knees find on every climb, or jersey pockets that sag and swing the moment you stand up on the pedals.

And most men's compression shorts don't help. They hold the legs well enough, then give you one tiny key pocket in the waistband and call it storage.

These carry the lot on your body, where it doesn't move.

Here's How It Works

The pockets are laid out around how you sit on a bike. A mesh-backed pocket runs across the lower back, deep enough to take a water bottle lying flat in the small of your back. Divided slots along the rear waistband hold gels upright and apart, so you can pull one out without fishing for it. An open drop-in pocket on each outer thigh puts your phone within reach of either hand, low enough on the leg that it doesn't press into your hip when you're bent over the bars. There are no zips to fight with gloves on.

Loaded pockets are where most pocketed tights start to sag. The wide, flat elasticated waistband is what stops that: it holds its position with a bottle and gels in the back, so you're not hitching the shorts up at every set of lights.

These are unpadded, with no chamois. That makes them a standalone short for summer road and gravel rides, a clean base layer under baggy mountain bike shorts, and something you can wear under hiking pants or to the gym without a pad in the way. The fit is skin-tight through the hip, glute and thigh, flatlock seams and a contoured gusset lie flat against the skin, and the mid-thigh length covers the inner thigh where rubbing starts on a long day.

Laser-cut perforations on the lower outer thigh move air through the hottest part of the leg, and an opaque inner lining panel sits at the front.

The Gear It Replaces

• A saddle bag — rattles over corrugations, and you have to stop and open it
• A frame bag — your knees find it on every steep pinch
• An armband or running belt for your phone — it twists, slides and ends up where you don't want it
• Compression shorts with one key pocket — great for the legs, useless for the gels and the bottle

What's In It

• Mesh-backed lower back pocket — a bottle rides flat in the small of your back
• Divided waistband gel slots — gels stay upright and apart, easy to grab one at a time
• Open phone pocket on each thigh — your phone in reach of either hand, no zip to fight
• Wide flat waistband — holds its place once the pockets are loaded
• Unpadded construction — layers cleanly under baggy mountain bike shorts and hiking pants
• Laser-cut perforated thigh venting — air through the part of the leg that runs hottest
• Flatlock seams and contoured gusset — flat joins across the inner thigh where rubbing starts

Fit and Sizing

These run small. They're a compression fit sized by height and weight, not by your usual shorts size, so go by the table. If your height and your weight land in different sizes, take the larger one. The largest size suits up to about 185 cm and 95 kg.

Specifications

• Product type: Men's compression shorts (unpadded cycling half tights)
• Padding: Unpadded, for wearing on its own or as a base layer
• Length: Mid-thigh, hem just above the knee
• Fit: Skin-tight compression fit
• Waistband: Wide, flat and elasticated
• Pockets: Five, a mesh-backed lower back pocket, divided gel slots along the rear waistband and an open phone pocket on each outer thigh
• Seams: Flatlock with a contoured gusset
• Ventilation: Laser-cut perforated panel on the lower outer thigh
• Lining: Opaque inner panel at the front
• Colours: Black, Navy, Royal Blue, Olive Green
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL (by height and weight)
• Intended use: Road and gravel riding, base layer under baggy mountain bike shorts, gym training, under hiking pants
• Intended user: Men

Everything on you. Nothing on the bike.

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