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Q36.5 offers 3 ranges of bib shorts, engineered to suit the different needs of every rider. DOTTORE is most lightweight, supportive, comfortable and long-lasting bib short you have ever worn, engineered for pure performance riding. GREGARIUS finetunes DOTTORE technologies to create the ultimate all-round performance bib short whilst UNIQUE is, quite simply, a prototype from the future. Scroll down to discover which range and specific model is best suited to you.
All Q36.5 bib shorts are designed and engineered internally and manufactured in Italy within 350km of our Dolomites HQ. 90% of the components used to manufacture our bibshorts are proprietary. This means that you will find fabrics, finishes, chamois pads and construction techniques found on no other products on the market, it also means that each component on each bib short has been engineered specifically for the characteristics of that bib short system. No design compromises to ensure that whatever Q36.5 bibshort you ride in, there is no compromise on your comfort.
Engineering its chamois pads entirely in-house, Q36.5 has developed a 2-piece chamois system like no other on the market. Thanks to the separation and distinct engineering of the cover fabric (the part of the chamois system that always remains in contact with your body) from the pad (the foam part of the chamois that acts as the primary interface between you and the saddle), we are able to guarantee that you, the rider, will always have perfect contact with the saddle even when sitting at imperfect angles as well as remaining noticeably drier and cooler.
Dottore bibshorts are the maximum expression of Q36.5’s approach to high performance, each bibshort in the Dottore range has been engineered to give you, the rider, a feel of maximum support. This support can be immediately noticed in the “locked in” feeling of perfect contact between your chamois pad and saddle and the shorts with your groin area, achieved through interaction between the high modulus force of our woven fabrics and the proprietary two-piece chamois system.
The variable density of the leg panel (with its signature silver yarn), which gives a mild compressive feeling, works to align the muscle fibers of your legs, facilitating a correct elongation and contraction of the muscle, reducing fatigue over long distances.
The result, whilst riding, is that of superior control of your bicycle and pedalling action, as though almost being guided by an invisible teacher or doctor, even in moment of maximum exertion and fatigue.
In 2013, inspired by the innovations of competition swimsuits, Q36.5 became the first brand in the world to create a pair of cycling bib shorts made from stretch woven fabrics. Up until then allow cycling bib shorts had been made with knitted fabrics that allowed for stretch and softer hand. But woven fabrics, if developed correctly allow, offer the following important advantages:
Over the last decade Q36.5 has worked tirelessly to develop it’s own woven fabrics that best exploit these unique characteristics. All Dottore bib shorts are made exclusively from woven fabrics.
The Gregarius range of bib shorts take the pinnacle technologies of the Dottore bib short range and retunes them to create a bib short that at first feels comfortingly familiar, but once on the bike offers you a distinct performance upgrade. This upgrade arrives in the form of comfort (Gregarius uses identical straps, lumbar support panel, chamois, method of chamois attachment to the Dottore), moisture management and, new for 2025, ultra minimal pattern that reduces stitching to the essential. You will be able to stay out longer, in worse weather, than ever before. The ultimate all-rounder.
The “familiar” feeling of the Gregarius bib shorts is achieved by the use of a knitted fabric (rather than the woven fabrics that characterize the Dottore bib shorts) for the leg panels of its shorts. The knitted fabric on the Gregarius bib shorts has a softer feel to those of the Dottore (though a similar level of compressiveness) and, combined with our new, ergonomic, cut allows for the feeling of the presence of fabric on your legs to almost entirely disappear whilst riding. You’ll actually have to look down to remember that you even have anything on!
For those looking for the ultimate cargo bib short for Gravel Adventures, Q36.5 offers its new Gregarius with two invisible pockets, cut directly into the leg panel of the shorts for an ultra-clean look.
Winner of the Red Dot technology award when first presented in 2021 and continuously refined ever since, the Q36.5 Unique bib shorts represent the most advanced and technologically cutting-edge application of our understanding of stretch woven fabrics. The Unique bib shorts are in fact the world’s only seamless woven bib shorts, with the entire bib short (with exception of the shoulder straps, attached subsequently) leaving the weaving machine as a single, tubular, piece of fabric with 7 different zones of density. The result is a bib short that offers a heightened experience of the performance philosophy of our Dottore bib shorts. We believe that the Unique in fact offers the maximum return to the rider in terms of the comfort of our patented adaptive chamois, of the alignment of muscle fibers achieved through body mapping as well as durability and moisture management. This is the feeling of wearing the future of high performance cycling bib shorts.
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