My stomach can only process so much liquid per hour...

...but if you have a spare bottle in a supported race...

Like my wife handing out bottles of ice water at Everest Challenge?

That is only important if you're umd... less so if you pass out from heat stroke!

Exactly what I had in mind.

Bibs strike me as a clothing item for nascent 'bent riders.

I'll wear bibs the day I need suspenders to hold up my pants at the office.

You know there are Summer weight and Winter weight base layers...right?

weight? yikes, no way.

not needed when cold just grab a newspaper from the crowd and stuff it in the jersey LOL

Right. I however use the thinnest base layer i can get - short of your mama's stockings!

lol.

No winning over the idiots on BF to your way of doing things is what's important.....get your priorities right man

That's what I'm sayin'.

I was out at the Thursday Night Crits (which I've posted some pics of in the Texas forum in the past) and did see one guy with long white sleeves under his jersey, so I guess the concept is not as alien around here as I had supposed.

They just did an interview with Contador on VS. His Astana top is skin-tight and so thin you can see white bib straps underneath. Thinnest looking pro-jersey I've seen.

Oops, just saw Team Sky on the climb - big panels of black see-through fabric in their jerseys. Looks kinky - and hot.

Join the club. Not sure why anyone who could would be wasting their time playing with bicycles.

Scissors will fix that. Slow down and bounce a bit, and you might manage enough in tips to pay for a new jersey, too.

I'd agree with that as they are nowhere near as effective as the Craft arm coolers that I also have. The PI's are a much thicker material.

If all your sweat is evaporating as fast as you produce it, can a baselayer still keep you cooler? Or will it make you warmer?

In such a case a baselayer should help if you are adding water by pouring it on, so the water can be retained.

What baselayer would be recommended to try for maximum cooling? Should I start w/arm coolers, which ones?

Lots more bare chests again today on the road to Mende. Will these guys never learn?

You might consider also that they might not wear base layers on stages where they are likely to unzip their jersey...

LOL - I bet they spend most of the pre-race meeting discussing if they are going to unzip today or not.

The bottom line is that the best cyclist on the planet have been riding before our very eyes, in warm weather, in the most important race of the year and THEY ARE NOT WEARING BASE LAYERS. It doesn't take a friggin genius to figure this out .

Leg-shavers in tights arguing six pages over the best underwear. God, I love to watch roadies.

some people never will.

Yeah, bunch of embarrassing looking chests... like they never hit puberty! Would it kill them to grow some hair and do some bench presses!

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