Check these out. They sell em at Wally World and are only 10 bucks. Personally I think the Under Armour stuff is a scam when it comes to wicking shirts.

At the risk of providing TMI: its funny, but on my high fiber, reasonable protein, very low sugar, low carb, almost zero refined flour, etc... diet, I find that, although I am a generous producer of gaseous byproducts, they do not have the same noxious odor that they did on my previous, excessive carb, way too much processed food, all american diet.

Not saying I'd break wind in the boss's office, but there is seriously much less smell. Same goes for other waste products, too, though my liquid waste does pick up a suspicious odor if I eat too much asparagus ;-)

I work in a college campus building with lots of public traffic, don't have a shower at work and share an office with a co-worker, so being smelly isn't an option. I do a quick towel-bath in a storage room and follow up with deodorant or baby wipes. Wet/sweaty cycling clothes go in a metal storage cabinet that's big enough to allow them to dry- it was a lucky find, I salvaged it on its way to be surplused. Am also lucky in that I can keep several sets of clothes at the office so I only have to do one clothes hauling trip to and from work per week.

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I picked up the long sleeve compression tee ($10) and a pair of compression tights ($12). So far they're working great. Especially the tights. It's been down in the low 40's in the morning and it's more comfortable then my usual winter tights that are too warm at 40°.

My rule of thumb for a long time has been "never ride in my work clothes or work in my ride clothes'. That includes socks, shoes and...well you get the idea. :innocent: Also, shower before leaving and have plenty of time to cool down when I arrive. Even during the dead of winter.

The advice above about wool over any other fabic is right on. And don't get a wool/acrylic blend either. It'll stink w/just 5% blend. Merino wool. Close knit 100%. Layer as the weather cools down. Plenty of info @ www.icebike.com or the winter cycling sub-forum.

I bring a weeks worth of clothing in on Mondays and take my daily wears home every night. I keep extra socks, shoes, deo, toothbrush, paste in my locker. Maybe I should get a cot and move in? :p

I do things a little differently than most commuters. I leave cloths and my lunch at work on my driving days. On my cycling days, I wear my cycling cloths. When I get to work, I take my bag of cloths with me to the bathroom, strip naked, towel off, put on some deodorant, then put my cloths on.

It works so well that most people don't have a clue what days I ride and what days I drive until they see my bike in the office.

I ride in bike clothes and carry work clothes in a pannier. I chug water on arrival and sit outside in shade/breezes until I quit sweating. Then head indoors to clean up and change clothes. I've worked at a few different office locations. If there's a shower I use it; where there is no shower I do a sink-shampoo with COLD water then go to the handicap bathroom stall to strip and do a birdbath. I fill a small bucket with clean cold rinsewater. I put liquid hand soap on one microfiber washrag and scrub down with it. Then I use a second washrag and the bucket of water to sponge off the soapy stuff. Towel completely off with a microfiber camp/travel towel. The toiletries are all in small sample-size containers refilled from standard containers. Fortunately at the office without a shower I am able to keep the cleanup kit near the bathrooms.

It is important to not mess up the bathroom with the birdbath cleanup - it is as tidy when I finish as when I arrive. Otherwise somebody would try to get privileges revoked and make life difficult for me.

Riding easy isn't an option (hills) and I go through buggy dusty/muddy humid areas on my commute so sweating and desire to clean are inevitable. Distance is 12-17.5 miles each way. Even the birdbath cleanup leaves me feeling great and refreshed, not all gritty/sticky.

I ride 4 days a week. I have a small closet of clothes and toiletries at work. Bring in food and change out pressed clothes on the driving days.
I shower after riding home (or before leaving in the AM if i drove the prev day). Ride in cycling gear, change at work into nice pressed and clean clothes. Deoderize/cologne and eve shave if i need to. Change at the end of day, leave work clothes at work and ride home. May sound weird but I get at least two wears out of my work clothes because I don't do anything "dirty" or sweaty at work.

Works great and with 5 pants/jeans and 5 shirts/polos I can have an alternating combination of outfits all the time. No worries here, works great. No stank.

Lol. I misread skank for stank. I was looking forward to reading about your female colleagues.

As a couple of people have mentioned and I have forgotten to mention... Take a shower before the ride =)

I shower before leaving for work, then under-dress slightly on my way to work most of the time -- if I'm pushing hard, I'm warm but not too sweaty; if I have to stop for long, I'll get cold unless I put on a jacket. (For example, this week it's been in the upper 30s in the morning, so I've been wearing light tights, bib shorts, and a sleeveless jersey. Plenty warm as long as I'm riding hard.) The last half-mile to work I slow down a bit and unzip my jersey or jacket depending on the weather, so I'm mostly cooled off when I get to the office.

I ride three miles to the train station, sit on the train for half an hour, then ride a bit over six miles to work up and down the hills of Seattle -- not a commute I want to do in slacks and a dress shirt, especially when it's raining. Slacks and an undershirt go in my pannier, dress shirts and shoes live at the office -- I use the dry cleaner across the street, so my shirts never go home, just off to the cleaners at lunch once in a while.

No shower or lockers at work, I change in the men's room. In the hottest parts of the summer I do a quick sponge bath, otherwise, cooling down before arriving is good enough.

Merino base layer should be 100% wool and superfine grade.
You dont need any "bike" features,a T shirt cut is fine. Use long sleeved for very cold conditions.
The material has a natural elasticity so should be form fitting without being tight.
There are some big-name brands such as Icebreaker, now made in China. The original New Zealand products are still available under various small brand names.

Its best to wash the same as your hair, hand hot in a detergent (dish-washing or shampoo) NOT a soap, gently .
Rinse a few times. Dont wring it out.
You can machine was using wool setting at 40C with a gentle spin
Dont hang to dry; place on a dry towel, gently roll and press to get most of the water out. Unroll and leave in a warm, dry place. It dries pretty quickly.

Luckily work had a shower. Never a problem. But, once the water was out.. I was prepared . I bought in advance those jumbo sized body wipes.. They work fairly well. not as refreshing as a shower. That and the use of the bathroom, sink- I got through the day OK..

shower before you leave home if there is no shower at work.

strip head to toe; wash head to toe; put on new clothes head to toe. there's no way around it.

Going off topic a little: Is "stank" commonly used as a noun in your neck of the woods? I ask because I'm interested in words and I've never heard that before. The dictionary only gives this:

1
dialect British a : pond, pool b : a ditch containing water

2
British : a small dam : weir

Thanks.

In some throats of the forest, it can be used as:

- a colloquialism, mutated part participle of some such conjugation of stink, see also stunk, as the OP seems to have meant it

- various unmentionables, as in "I'm gonna get me some stank," particularly when relating to coolio's aforementioned skank(s), and which could result in another source of stink, stank, stunk

"No more stank" in some circles may be heard as more of a moral than olfactory plea.

Tanks fer dat!

What does an native zulu man do after he's chased and killed a big hog to feed his wife and kids? Does he spray on cologne before he takes the hog home, in fear that his wife might say he is too sweaty? Somehow I don't think so.

If she doesn't like the way you smell, tell her to marry someone who lies on the couch all day!