Review: CW-X Stabilyx Tight

[teigyr]

The inner thigh seams WILL wear out, mine took about a year. It's a common complaint I've heard about the tights. They are wonderful though.

For those Seattle folks (Knot), I know a seamstress who will fix them when it happens. It's better if you catch them before they start to fail and it isn't perfect. If it goes when you're out for a long run, OUCH.

FYI the weather tights (can't remember the name offhand) are really warm and they repel snow/rain wonderfully. It has to be 20ish before I'll wear them or else I'll get too hot.

[Trek420]

The inner thigh seams WILL wear out, mine took about a year. It's a common complaint I've heard about the tights. They are wonderful though.

Now I don't feel so bad. At my height the tape that would hold my knee ligaments together might hit at my calves

[OakLeaf]

The inner thigh seams WILL wear out, mine took about a year.

If you don't mind, can you approximate how many miles on the tights? That seems awfully quick unless you were wearing them for every run.

[colby]

If you don't mind, can you approximate how many miles on the tights? That seems awfully quick unless you were wearing them for every run.

I usually wear mine in the fall/winter (until it gets cold)/spring. The seams in my 3/4 length pro tights (not insulated) lasted 9 months at most (maybe as few as 6?). Last year I bought a pair before marathon training - August? - and wore them through that, in the marathon, and through the spring, I believe, while Ironman training. I would say average 30 miles a week through fall, more like 20 through spring. I wore them every run with a pair of REI compression shorts over the top which covered the part of seams in question just barely (they busted just where the shorts hit, around a 4-6" inseam). So... 600-900 miles?

My first pair lasted longer, but I didn't run as much, or as fast. Ironically I lost a lot of weight between the two pairs, too, so I really expected the second pair to last a lot longer.

[Zen]

you wore compression tights on top of compression tights?
Or do I need to re-read?

[colby]

you wore compression tights on top of compression tights?
Or do I need to re-read?

Sort of - I wore compression shorts (with a 4" inseam) on top of my 3/4-length compression tights to try to keep the seams from wearing as quickly - hoping that the extra fabric would protect me from the direct rubbing.

http://www.rei.com/product/778275

It's worth noting that REI's definition of "compression" is "a tight fitting thicker-than-lycra fabric" - not the same as what CW-X means

[Veronica]

I am one of those people who fall in the gray area between sizes. I ordered up like the chart said, but the mediums are too big for me. I can't keep the knee section on my knee. At my height, a medium will fit someone who weighs 25 pounds more than I do.

I'm worried a small will be too small. We'll see; they'll arrive on Wednesday.

Veronica

[Pedal Wench]

I just wore mine again on the flight home last night. We did a century, got back to the BF's, I showered and then sat around the airport and flew home. I expected to be really sore today, but just slightly tight.

[colby]

I am one of those people who fall in the gray area between sizes. I ordered up like the chart said, but the mediums are too big for me. I can't keep the knee section on my knee. At my height, a medium will fit someone who weighs 25 pounds more than I do.

I'm worried a small will be too small. We'll see; they'll arrive on Wednesday.

Veronica

I'm curious how this turns out - the medium 3/4 length tights seem to be more forgiving (I weigh more than I should for my height and sized up), but now my full length tights are starting to move when I run. Downward. So I feel like my pants are falling off for basically 90% of the run. I'm also concerned the small will be too small. It's like they are a fine fit from my ankle to my knee, but from my thigh to my waist, they are too big. The string is no help.