Originally Posted by
chefisaac
I am wanting to bike to work tomorrow but it is going to be 29 or 30 degrees in the morning and I am a little nervous about biking in the cold due to clothing.
I plan to wear an under armour base layer for upper body, a cotton shirt and then a jersey or I could go underarmour base layer for upper body, a jersey and a wind breaker. I dont have a lot of winter clothes and I hear that cotton is a no no.
For legs I plan to wear bibs, under, long underwear, underarmour pants and bike shorts.
Socks.... wool plus ziplock over them and then cycling shoes.
Backlava and full gloves.
Just nervous because I dont have a lot of winter clothes.
Thoughts or suggestions?
For cold you want the outer layer to be something that's going to stop the wind, so I'd definitely choose the wind breaker over the jersey unless the jersey is wind proof. Jersey might be OK as a middle layer. Not sure what order you're using for the lower body layers but it sounds like you have plenty of them. The rule is pretty straight forward. The "base" layer is thin and snug fitting. It's meant to wick away moisture. The middle layer is thicker (though not bulky) and should be insulating. Fleece is great for this. Again, the outer layer's role is to stop the wind.
If anything you'll probably discover than for those temps you don't need to worry too much.