Gore Bike Wear Fusion Trail

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Although these Gore Bike Wear Fusion Trail shorts are in keeping with this year’s ‘TicTac’ fashion colour palette, they also come in brown or black. They’re made of a lightweight matte nylon with a thin Windstopper panel on the back and crotch for spray protection. A couple of side mesh panels aid ventilation and continue up under the rear of the waistband. There are a couple of buttock pockets that reveal mesh behind if you need to cool further. One of these has a glasses cloth on an elastic leash, which is a nice touch. Two non-zipped front slash pockets hold money, snacks or hands comfortably. The waistband is half elastic, with further adjustment from two side buckles. A zip fly with popper keeps the shorts from dropping.

Despite the lack of stretch in the main (orange) material, the shorts fit extremely well and ride well too. The light weight of the fabric keeps them from feeling too warm or too noticeable, while the knee length is good for some protection, or to sit over pads.

Though thin, they’ve worn very well through several road trips and have washed really well, with the colour staying, not fading and being stain resistant, despite mid-ride chain issues, cloudbursts and immersions in mud pits. The colour won’t suit all, but as we’ve said, they do come in more Henry Ford colours for the shy.

Overall: Great three-season trail riding shorts. Minimal but durable.

Review Info

Brand: Gore Bike Wear
Product: Fusion Trail
From: Gore Bike Wear, goreapparel.co.uk
Price: £79, liner not included
Tested: by Chipps for
Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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