an inner panel of stretchable fabric forming a majority of a leg of the pants; and

at least one side panel of the stretchable fabric forming an outward-facing left or right side of the pants, the at least one side panel being connected to the inner panel via two or more contoured side seams such that an inward-facing side of the leg is seamless,

the inner panel and the at least one side panel being preformed to define a bend of the leg in a forward direction at an upper thigh-region of the pants and a bend of the leg in a rearward direction at a knee region of the pants such that a front edge of the knee region of the pants is farther in the forward direction than a front edge of the upper-thigh region of the pants when the pants are in a natural state not bent by an external force and such that the pants stretch substantially evenly across the legs and a portion of the lower torso of a rider when the pants are worn by the rider in a bent-legged riding position, wherein the forward direction is away from a first point on a waistband of the pants nearest to the center of a buttocks region of the pants and toward a second point on the waistband opposite the first point, and wherein the rearward direction is opposite of the forward direction.