Tks.

Actually its all function. You can wear that stuff for three days without a shower (as often happen on tour) and it doesn't accumulate much old sweat funk. Then when you DO find a shower, you can wash it IN the shower, wring it out, put it on and be good to go. If it feels too wet when ya put it on, 10 minutes later it'll be fine.

The other thing almost no one here relates to but which is important to me: As a teacher in a big urban high school I often end up riding home after dark through lower-income urban neighborhoods. Much of it I ride without lights so as to be less conspicuous. Flashing safety lights, helmets and bicycle outfits in that setting would just spell "V I C T I M". Usually if anything I get mistaken for homeless, which describes most older bearded White guys where I live and work.

For the riding in heat thing. When one is drinking four gallons or more of water a day you have to take salt. Rehydration salts are expensive. What is in those expensive packets is a 2:1 ratio of sodium and potassium chlorides. "Lite Salt", found in the dietary section of grocery stores for those who must restrict their sodium intake, is actually a 1:1 mix of sodium and potassium chlorides. You can adjust with regular table salt (sodium chloride) as necessary. Works really well.

Mike