VOYJOY Biker Shorts

The biker cuts are the plainer end of the shorts shelf: the same seamless knit, the same gathered seam at the back on most of them, but a straighter leg and a hem that sits flat rather than curving up at the thigh. The 3.6-inch biker is the pair with the largest pool of ratings on the whole site, and it is the length most people mean by a biker short. The 2.5-inch bikers are shorter and come from three families at three prices, one of them cut low on the hip.

Two of the pairs on this page carry a pocket, which is rarer than it sounds on a seamless knit: a side pocket on the 2.5-inch low-rise biker sized for a phone, and a zipped pocket at the back of the 3.6-inch waistband for a key. Sizes run XS to XL on most cards and to 2XL on the most-rated pair. The rise is where the bikers split: the 3.6-inch pair and the high-waist biker sit at the waist, and the other four sit low on the hip, so buy the first two by the waist and the rest by the hip.