Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant Reviews

Review score: 8.7/10 – Updated May, 2024

Latest Price: £140 (RRP: £140)

Take a look now to discover what makes Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant worthy of a review score of 8.7 out of 10.

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Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant features

Quality

Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Jeans & Pants. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant.

The first thing is material. Looking at what Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.

Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Jeans & Pants. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.

There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Jeans & Pants. Brands like Castelli are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.

Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Jeans & Pants category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.

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Comparing Prices

Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Jeans & Pants.

It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.

Price of Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant.

We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £140 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.9 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Jeans & Pants

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Jeans & Pants.

We found 27 in the Jeans & Pants category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £59.80, making it above average at £140.

It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Jeans & Pants. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £140.00, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £30.00.

With 27 products available we worked out that 0 cost more than Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant and 26 were cheaper.

Cost of Castelli products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 371 products from Castelli, of which 2 were in the Jeans & Pants category.

For now though we’re looking at Castelli branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £74.52 making this product above average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Castelli product we found was £6.50 and the highest price we could find from them was £340.00.

Of the 371 from Castelli, 47 were more expensive than Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant and 319 were cheaper.

How much are Castelli Jeans & Pants?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Castelli products that are listed in the Jeans & Pants category.

The average price of the 2 products that match this search was £117.50, with the cheapest coming in at £95.00 and highest price was £140.00. With the average being £117.50, Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant comes in above average.

0 products that meet this search were more expensive than Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant and 1 were cheaper.

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Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant Reviews

Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.

There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.

1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.

2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.

Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.1 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Jeans & Pants category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.4 out of 5.

Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant or another similar product, like Castelli Women’s Prisma 2 Cap reviews or Castelli Montagna Kit Cap reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Jeans & Pants.

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Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Jeans & Pants. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Castelli, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.

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YouTube Video of Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant reviews.

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Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 8.7/10 overall.

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Further product details

• Product ID 1: 25854845265
• Product ID 2: 780789UK
• Brand: Castelli
• Model number: CS201100986
• RRP: £140
• EAN: 8050949078051
• Description: Castelli VG 5 Pocket PantCastelli makes kit that keeps you both comfortable and stylish on the bike and they’ve applied the same ethos to their VG 5 Pocket Pants for days off the bike. The super-soft garment-washed cotton feels great and gives them a classic lived-in look. As someone who loves Castelli kit, why not keep the same style and comfort when you’re off the bike? The VG VG 5 Pocket Pants apply the same attention to detail as you’ve come to expect, with premium fabrics and a tailored cut that gives exceptional comfort. If you do decide to go for a casual spin, the articulated knees make pedalling easy, reflective trim is visible when you turn up the hem and water-repellent finish shrugs off splashes and stains.Castelli VG AtelierCastelli started life in 1876 as a Milan based tailor shop called Vittore Gianni. It’s from that DNA that the Castelli off-the-bike wear was created. It’s personified by the craftsmanship, obsession, tech and style from Vittore Gianni’s atelier. Wear it between bike sessions to look and feel good and enjoy the fine fabrics and artisan techniques used within every piece.Features:Materials: 97% Cotton, 3% ElastaneDWR treatment protects from splashes or stainsGarment-washed for that lived-in lookCut just above the kneeReflective tape inside cuff – turn up for extra visibilityVintage-jersey-inspired rear pocket treatmentDiscreet small TPR logoWoven VG Atelier labelBuy Castelli Clothing from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
• Full Category: Clothing > Jeans & Pants
• Size: XXL
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Other options for Jeans & Pants

As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Jeans & Pants. 27 in fact.

A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Castelli VG 5 Pocket Pant included,
Castelli Squadra Long Vest reviews, Castelli Team Sky Perfetto Vest 2018 reviews, or we really liked the look of Castelli Perfetto ROS Vest Light Gilet reviews as another alternative.