Assos - Men's Equipe RS Bib Shorts S9 - Black Series

Need speed? Try these shorts for Go-Faster power

With six years of technology developments and featuring the maker's most advanced race insert to date, the Equipe RS Bib Shorts S9 tread new ground, bringing unmatched stability and comfort to your most demanding speed-focused applications.

S9 marks the future of race-tuned comfort where you need it most. Built on an entirely new platform that’s re-engineered from the ground up, and with years of testing and feedback from riders at the highest level of the sport, ASSOS firmly believes the most advanced insert technology is only as good as the framework that supports it.

So for your hard cornering, into-out-of-saddle pedalling, and hours of body repositioning that greatly impact your shorts and the way its insert functions, these shorts can offers a rare kind of comfort.

In its quest to address these points, ASSOS employed A-Lock Engineering, a new bracing system comprising proprietary textiles and technologies working together to stabilise the shorts and secure the insert in place.

The S9 generation incorporates just two panels, with a primary “butterfly” panel fully encasing your legs and meeting in the rear to form a new structure, which ASSOS called the 'ergoBox'. This design effectively frames the insert in place and provides you with an ultra-comfortable wrap on your legs using a unique textile, developed specifically for compressive hold and silky comfort.

To this, ASSOS added its unique rollBar, which mimics a racing car’s anti-sway bar by using the bib straps to stabilise the insert as your weight transfers from left to right while cornering. Each strap is sewn into the seam directly above the insert, ensuring that it’s under pre-loaded tension at all times.

The bib straps have also been redesigned using calibrated stretch throughout, with the rear section using a single section of elastic material, folded over on itself to form an A-frame in the back. It delivers limited vertical stretch for further stability. In the front, the straps are made of a more flexible material, with an antibacterial carbon weave, to wick moisture and lay flat.

The bottom line is signature ASSOS comfort, with added stability.

Key Features

A-Lock Engineering: S9 racingFit system comprising new textiles and technologies working in harmony to stabilize the shorts and secure the insert in place.

Butterfly Pattern: The primary textile panel fully wraps your lower back and legs, and comes together in the rear. Fewer seams give a more uniform hold, less weight, and greater comfort.

Type.441: A patented 40-guage warp knit, developed specifically for compressive hold and silky comfort. 200g/m2, UPF 50+, moisture wicking, odour control, and extremely durable.

rollBar: A patented bracing design that mimics a race car’s anti-sway bar by using the bib straps to stabilize the insert and lock it in place as your weight transfers from left to right while cornering.

ergoBox: A square pattern construction that effectively frames the insert in the back, boxing it in for added stability.

Carbon Xbib: A single section of elastic material—folded over on itself—forming a supportive A-frame that delivers limited vertical stretch in the rear. Above the “X” junction, a more flexible material is employed, incorporating an antibacterial carbon weave, to wick moisture and lay flat in the front.

zeroWaist: A raw-cut, tape-reinforced edge for the smoothest transition possible between the body and fabric panel. More comfort with less pressure.

Ultralight Leg Grippers: A light silicon treatment woven into the leg bands, which reduces fabric bulk and secures the shorts in place without any excessive pressure.

30% Seam Reduction: Flatter seams throughout, with fewer overall, translates to more comfort and lower overall weight (180g).

mod.Dep S9 Basalt: An antibacterial microfibre booster top sheet in a 3D basalt colourway pays homage to the lava stone that gives us strength, stability, and courage.

superAir microShock foam: A lightweight open cell foam with a shock-absorbing composition that returns to its original position, filling the gap every time you change your pedalling position and shift your weight.

3D waffle: A patented, three-layer perforated foam increases breathability and eliminates excess weight.

Surface Reduction Design: The insert footprint has been reduced from previous Equipe Evo pattern to shed extra grams.

goldenGate: A patented technology that interrupts the stitching along both of the insert’s side panels, allowing a more three-dimensional freedom of movement in this sensitive, rotational area.

Horizontal Stabiliser: A patented central stitch that secures the rear of the insert to the outer textile, eliminating shifting while pedaling out of the saddle.

kraterCooler: A system of small holes in the front of the insert that increases airflow so that your sensitive areas are kept cooler.

About ASSOS:

ASSOS of Switzerland’s mission is to provide innovative, technically outstanding cycling apparel with meticulous, lean design.

Since creating the first ever Lycra® cycling shorts in 1976, the company has developed a number of innovations that have pointed the way for the evolution of cycling wear – most of its innovations are now industry standards. Today, ASSOS proudly provides its Total Cycling Comfort to riders in more than 30 countries.

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