Perhaps this is an obscure kit question, but thought I’d see if anyone can help… Does anyone else need to, or has anyone had any success stretching out bib shoulder straps to loosen them up? It seems that a peculiarity of my body is that I’m comfortable with most brands ‘medium’ chamois size down …

Take the to a tailor and have them add an inch or so of material to the bibs.

I’ve never tried it but I would think it should be pretty easy for a tailor to lengthen bib straps.

[image] Power13: Take the to a tailor and have them add an inch or so of material to the bibs. That is what I was thinking - sacrifice some old bibs for the piece of material. I used to have this problem with my old fav brand - Castelli. I’ve since switched to Assos and don’t have the proble…

I remember seeing a behind the scenes video with Groupama FDJ I believe and a couple riders cut their bibs, in what I’m guessing was an attempt to lengthen them. Basically, there a cut horizontally halfway through alternating sides every few inches. I’ll try to find a picture. Seemed weird for a pro…

[image] AJS914: sacrifice some old bibs for the piece of material. You don’t even need to do that (although you can)…most tailors have some elastic material that they can just sew into the bib straps.

[image] CaptainThunderpants: I’ll try to find a picture. Seemed weird for a pro team to do it when I would think it would only cost a few bucks to lengthen it at a tailor. From what little I know about sewing, lengthening (or shortening) bib straps should be so ridiculously easy that anyone …

[image] STP: From what little I know about sewing, lengthening (or shortening) bib straps should be so ridiculously easy that anyone who can thread a needle should be able to do a passible job. Passable in terms of holding together, perhaps…but in terms of material overlap or the stitching ca…

I’m sure I could do it, but I’d be more than happy to pay my guy Mike the Tailor to do it right ;-). I’ve never taken cycling clothes to him but my guess he’d do bibs for $15-20, it would take him less than 5 minutes and he’d be happy for the easy money! FWIW, my cycling club recently switched to …

I’ve only tried Velocio bibs on once, but I seem to remember them having SUPER stretchy shoulder straps (similar to women’s “pull down bibs”). Am I misremembering?

[image] STP: I’ve never taken cycling clothes to him I’ve taken a few different pieces of cycling kit to the tailor…pair of bibs that I wanted the front lower on, skinsuits / tri suits that I wanted tighter across the shoulders, etc. Everything has always come out great… a good tailor and a…

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Stretching out bib shoulder straps?

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