{"id":2561,"date":"2010-10-30T06:35:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T12:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2010-10-30T06:35:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T12:35:36","slug":"ibex-el-fito-bib-knickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"Ibex El Fito Bib Knickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning was my first cold ride of the season. The temperature was around 40 when I headed to Shelby Farms for a quick pre-ride of the Spookycross course, so I figured it&#8217;d be a good time to test out a new pair of Ibex <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibexwear.com\/shop\/product\/1760\/8990\/mens-el-fito-bib-three-quarter\" target=\"_blank\">knickers <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibexwear.com\/shop\/product\/1689\/9451\/mens-woolies-short-sleeve\" target=\"_blank\">base layer<\/a> that I got earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>First impression- holy crap! Finally, a winter knicker that doesn&#8217;t make me look like a fleece sausage! I&#8217;m not usually one to post lame mirror pics of myself, but I was impressed enough at the fit that I took a couple:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_2763.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2562\" title=\"DSC_2763\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_2763-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_2763\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_2763-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_2763.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_2765.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2563\" title=\"DSC_2765\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_2765-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_2765\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_2765-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_2765.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wore a thermal long sleeve over this, and, other than my hands (as usual), I was comfortable after about 5 minutes of riding. You can&#8217;t see in these photos, but the knickers have a windproof layer on the knees that not only keeps them warm, it also feels like it&#8217;d make them more durable for off-road riding (the knee warmers have a similar construction, and they aren&#8217;t showing any wear after a full season of use. Very impressed.)<\/p>\n<p>What I like most about wool is that it has such a wide range of comfortable wearing temperature- perfect for days that start out cold and warm up while you&#8217;re riding. I&#8217;ve been wearing the Ibex bib shorts for all of my morning rides that start in the 50s and end up in the 70s.<\/p>\n<p>Highly Recommended!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning was my first cold ride of the season. The temperature was around 40 when I headed to Shelby Farms for a quick pre-ride of the Spookycross course, so I figured it&#8217;d be a good time to test out a new pair of Ibex knickers and base layer that I got earlier in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-Fj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}