The best women’s mountain bike shorts combine comfort, style and practicality, allowing for long days in the saddle with easy access to pockets and fasteners.

The range of women’s mountain bike shorts is greater than ever, with styles available for all disciplines of mountain biking, from cross-country to downhill.

Women’s mountain bike shorts tend to comprise two layers, with an inner padded liner helping to prevent chafing and an outer short that usually features pockets.

Don’t expect this to be a low-budget trip, but relish in the fact that you can get the world’s best hot dogs and can cook eggs in thermal pools.

Similar to last year's Serenissima Gravel race, I'm told the gravel is not very technical and the parcours is almost completely flat, so we can expect a big bunch for most of the race, with very few major obstacles other than positioning and your standard challenges of racing on gravel without a support vehicle. 

Altura Esker Trail Shorts

The letter from Lappartient is the latest sign of the evident backlash against the government’s insistence that Russian and Belarusian athletes – and support staff – must sign a separate written declaration that they do not, and will not, support the war in Ukraine or the Russian and Belarusian regimes.

• Bianchi (Arkéa Pro Cycling Team)
• Cannondale (EF Education-Tibco-SVB, St Michel-Mavic-Auber93)
• Canyon (Canyon//SRAM Racing, Fenix-Deceuninck, Movistar Team)
• Cervélo (Team Jumbo-Visma)
• Colnago (UAE Team ADQ)
• Dare (Uno-X Pro Cycling)
• Felt (Human Powered Health)

The Altura Esker Trail Shorts are a high-quality, well-tailored, hard-wearing pair of all-year-round mountain bike shorts. They feature two zippered front pockets and have an extended back panel with a soft lining.

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What’s cool is that riders won’t know the progress of their competitors, nor if they’re winning, or even hours behind. It’s got elements of a randomness, but without looking at a compass. 

That number comprises the 15 Women’s WorldTour teams and seven invited teams from the second tier of women’s pro racing. The penultimate stage finishes atop the Col du Tourmalet. All eyes will be on Annemiek van Vleuten of Movistar to see if she can achieve her aim of completing the Vuelta-Giro-Tour treble in 2023, prior to her retirement later this year.