I just wear lycra shorts all day under gym shorts or cutoffs and throw my jersey in my locker. Odor be damned.

I use wicking t's and sleeveless t's from wally world. They dry pretty quick. I don't sweat a lot on my ride in because it's usually cool enough and I'm in the desert. Going home is a bit diff, but who cares. Anywho, I do get some sweat in the camelback area (not ********) and I just rinse the shirt off in the sink and lay it over my UPC under my desk with my floor fan blowing on it. Dries in a few hours. Lately I've been bringing in two. A sleeveless and regularly. One of my sleeveless T's is a bit tighter than I'd like and it makes me pretty self conscious, so I've got a reg T I throw in the bag should I need to go into a store or something. Or I just throw it on if I'm leaving the office early enough that there's people around. Nobody in the office needs to see me in that tight one. Cagers get a free show, I guess.

so do you treat your lycra shorts like pandora's Box. You just leave them on so you do not unleash all evil onto the world?

Body odor is not just from sweat. It's from sweat + bacteria. Shower in the morning before riding in with an anti-bacterial soap and then when you sweat on the ride in, it's just sweat without the bacteria and the smell should be minimized or non-existent. When you get to work, cool off for a few minutes and go to the bathroom and wipe off with a paper towel and splash your face or whatever. Put on your work clothes and rinse out your bike clothes in the sink. Get the kind of bike clothes that have material that dries quickly. Squeeze them out good and spray some Fabreze on them to keep them fresh and odor free. Then after they have a couple hours to dry and you're off work you should be all set to change, ride home and get a good shower (#2 for the day).

Oh, almost forgot. Deodorant helps too. "Duh"

ahahahha, I wear them every day basically. I wash them on weekends and the middle of the week when I commute. My commute is longer than most (~30mi) so the chamois is necessary. As I have posted before, I'm a student so it doesn't really matter what I wear.

I'm fortunate in that we have a new building that can accommodate a good 100 bicycles (county building) and has a new shower room. They also have day lockers that anyone can use. Of course there's already about 20+ people who leave their locks on even though there's a sign with a 'cut' lock showing what 'will' happen to those left overnight.

I wear a short-sleeved underarmour compression shirt under another riding shirt with a Cannondale (removable sleeves) riding jacket on the top. Since I leave at 4:00AM when I ride, it's still chilly. Over my riding tights I have another pair of Performance bike shorts that are thin and light weight. I try to spread everything out as much as possible in the locker, but there isn't much air movement. So even after a 10+ hour day, I'm not surprised to have some damp clothes. Everything is moisture wicking, but by the time I get there from my 13 mile ride, it's saturated.

So I just put it on and go. Since I have several hills to climb (Seattle) in the first 2 miles, it's doesn't take but a few minutes before I forget completely about putting on 'wet' clothes anyhow.

No worries about smell as it's just sweat, as mentioned earlier. I could always pull my clothes into the shower with me to rinse them, since they're already saturated and moisture wicking, but it isn't necessary.

Drape them over the open locker door or over the bike saddle.

ew

My rear is breaking out in saddle sores after reading this.

I wish my commute was that length, or at least 20 miles. I'd at least be able to get plenty of training in during the week. a 5 mile commute just doesn't do it. By the way where do you go to school? then again philly and the surrounding area is quite littered with schools it seems.

But yeah washing every week isn't for me I'll stick to my idea of buying a couple more pairs of bibs and switching them out each day. But I'm still not looking forward to letting them sit for 5ish hours while I'm at class. Oh well I've still a couple of weeks to ponder my decision.

A 12.5 hour night shift has one advantage in that it gives you time to wash out your bike clothes and let them dry. / Once I got busy and did not have time to get my drying clothes out of the restroom. ( Normally, I'd put on my bike clothes under work clothes , just before time to go home in order to get me out the door faster.) So they were still on hangers in the restroom when the secretarial staff used the crapper. They got all giggly.