Mountain Bike Clothing For Women
As more and more women start cycling, there is a growing sector for womens mountain biking clothing. While some women still wear general mountain biking clothing and mountain bike shoes.
To get an idea of why women need specific female clothing we need to look at the difference between men and women physically.
Men in general tend to have larger thigh muscles, arm muscles and so their cycling clothing has been designed to reflect this, to be more beneficial to women cyclists.
It’s not just womens clothing that is being designed to offer a better fit, the actual mountain bikes are being designed with female riders in mind. Recently we wrote about saddles and covered a little about female saddles, frame sizes are smaller and wheels aren’t as large. Stems are shorter and the angles of bars tend to be shorter.
While it is OK for a woman to ride a male suited mountain bike and wear the same shorts; as many, many women are finding out - it’s always better to get clothing that fits and a bike that has been built with the female rider in mind.