Padded, close-fitting shorts designed for cycling, and more broadly a staple of modern gym and athleisure wear. Cycling shorts sat at the centre of two linked stories in October 2026: the gym-outfit jokes in Shane Gillis’s criticised SNL monologue, and the Munich Oktoberfest ride operator reportedly giving them to women riders — the connection SNL UK’s Weekend Update turned into a punchline.
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