Originally Posted by haaseg

They actually make you sweat? That's just silly. I rode 85 miles yesterday and my socks were no more damp than my jersey and shorts.

Got caught out in a rainstorm a few weeks ago and it took my shoes 3 days to dry out. Yet you propose it would be better if my socks wicked the moisture out where? I think I'll take my wet socks off so today so that I can put some dry shoes on tomorrow.

I'm skeptical of this whole moisture wicking phenom in clothes lately. Sure, it keeps you dry, fine. But the whole purpose of sweat in the first place is for the cooling affect of evaporation. If the moisture is just wicked away before it evaporates, you don't get the cooling affect. Seems to me that the body would just keep producing even more sweat to try to cool down.