Originally Posted by jamesdak

See, and this is the exact mindset I had when I started my winter biking "adventures". I just found that, unlike you, it doesn't work for me. While wearing a coolmax type baselayer it would still get wet and then if I stopped to change a flat, deice the cassette, etc. I would get cold real quick and it would take forever like 15 or 20 minutes of riding to warm up again. Yet now in the same scenerio with even a wool baselayer I will stay warm while stopped even if the wool is wet. To me that's the advantage and what matters to me. Of course I don't have to worry about my garments drying because I finish in a warm house. I guess if at the end of the ride I still am camping outside in the cold I would have to rethink my methods...