Originally Posted by
big john
I take layers off as it warms up. The hard part for me is getting soaked from the climb and freezing on the descent. Everyone doesn't want to wait for me to put layers back on for each long descent and stop again to take stuff off.
I have a jersey/base layer combo that works pretty well down to about 45 as long as there aren't long coasting descents.
Do you still get soaked if you wear man-made / hydrophobic fibers (base layer etc) ?
You do a lot of long / sustained climbing - so maybe there's no way to avoid it (?)