Manpris are the Spring Fashion

I call them shants in public.

Can’t fool me - those are highwaters.

I’m too poor to buy new ones so i just take my ratty old pants and make them into cutoffs.

the ones i’m wearing right now though had a rip up to just under the knee. so they look like long shorts :o

Unless your name is Rafael Nadal - you can’t have!

I see Nike calls them 3/4 pants instead of Manpris.

Stevil at Swobo calls them Shpants, a term coined by Arj Barker (http://www.arjbarker.com/home/).

I just call them knickers and highly recommend the Merino wool Swobo Bruno’s.

Stevil, like the wind, periodically blows through the hugga. The Mega ‘pris are from Rapha; however, they just call them shorts.

Byron - Ibex too calls them Shants but they might be just a reaaally long short but their El Fixie definitely qualifies as a man-pri.

i prefer to call them knickerbockers.

The industry can call them whatevers, but they’re def capri pants for men. I’ve got a pair of Mountain Hardwear Basin 3/4 Pant that are very comfortable. They call them climbing pants, but they’re really good cycling “knickers;” off the bike man-pris. Check the description from their site

Call it a long short or a man-pri, but this ¾ length climbing pant is cut to move, protects your knees and keeps your feet in view.

And let’s not forget “Pedal Pushers.”

I vote for “knickers.” Swrve makes some nice ones.

They’ve been common warm-weather wear for men in much of Europe and at least in east-central Canada for most of the decade, and the usual name for them has been 3/4 pants: I’ve never heard any of the weird inventive word-mashes some of the posts here mention…

What would also be nice, now that 3/4s are a long-established item of male warm-weather apparel, would be to have pants that are less baggy and slightly snugger at the bottom end, like the ones often worn into the mid- and late 1700s. I think those would be very smart looking attire for cyclists.

The Rivendell MUSA (made in USA)knickers are the best value I’ve found in bikeable wear.

http://www.rivbike.com/products/list/clothing?page=2#product=22-635

@Christopher

3/4 pants pffft! sounds like just 3 quarters of a pant v. Man-Pris!, but a pull-string bottom would rock for on the bike.

I’ve been wearing Capt Dave capris on the bike for awhile. Good strong rip-stop fabric, drawstring bottoms, and they’re inexpensive!

http://captaindaves.com/shop/capris.html

Imported straight from Spain, they call them “Pantalones Pirata” or Pirate Pants.

Kuhl makes a great lightweight pair (again, designed for climbing) that are gusseted and have a zippered pocket on each side to keep those pesky keys from coming to any harm.