Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
Himespau, I tend to have the same problem. I'll wear a goretex jacket directly over a thin, long-sleeve wool tee shirt sometimes. If I work up a sweat, I start to feel clammy. It's a nasty feeling. And you're right, some kind of liner will fix it; your base layer wicks sweat away, but your rain coat won't absorb it, and only "breathes" it out slowly, so the sweat just hangs around, making your sleeves into "nasty bags of wet."
But the lining doesn't have to be part of the coat, or permanently attached. If it is, then you've got a cold weather jacket that isn't very useful in a cool rain. If it isn't, if they're two independent layers, then you get a lot more use out of your stuff, and more bang for your bucks.
My problem is those cool rains. Wearing another layer in between my base layer (if it's just a cool rain that's a very thin under armor type layer, something a bit thicker as it gets colder) makes me too hot and I start sweating. Something like removable mesh liner sleeves that don't add insulation, but give additional surface area for perspiration to go to before the outer layer is able to breathe it off would be nice. As it is, cool rains for me are worse than cold ones. Moderate and warmer rains I just get wet, and cold rains I can throw another layer like a long sleeve jersey in between, but those rains too cold for no protection but too warm for much leave me stumped. When commuting, I've tried rain capes, but those don't fit me well (I'm too tall/have too long of arms) and while the aero penalty is acceptable for the ride home when I have no other choice it's not something I want to put up with in gusty winds on a long ride.
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