Re: Do jerseys dry quicker?

On Tue, 17 May 2005 08:40:54 -0400, "Ken" <[email hidden]>

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On Mon, 16 May 2005 15:19:36 -0400, "Ken"

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> Matthew wrote:
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> > Modern materials do dry faster, but that isn't necessarily a good
> > thing. Cotton may "kill" in cold climates, but it is a preferred
> > material in warm, dry climates for the same reason it is bad in cold,
> > damp environments.
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> > Matthew
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> I've heard this argument about cotton but it doesn't match my own
> experience. I ride in southern Arizona so warm and dry is certainly the
> climate and I find synthetics are much more comfortable than cotton.
> Having a soaking wet shirt is uncomfortable and the cooling effect
> comes from evaporation not from just being wet. My experience is that
> the modern synthetics do a much better job of keeping the evaporation
> going as oppposed to cotton and thus result in more cooling.
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Yeah that was my thinking, about the evaporation that is. I live in

Florida,

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and it is humid, and with a soaked t-shirt, I don't feel very cool. So I

was

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thinking that some fabric that dried quicker might have more of a cooling
effect.

I'm in Tampa and feel cooler in a proper bike jersey than a t. So far

things are

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pretty mild, only low 80s, so pretty nice if I can stay in the woods and

keep

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moving when out in the sun.

Ron

Well I am pretty close to you, down here in Sarasota county. And it depends
on how I am riding how wet the t gets how comfortable I am. If I am just
riding to the store, with a slow pace the t doesn't get to bad. But if I am
doing an all out 12 mile lap it gets REALLY wet, and it will stay that way
for what seems like hours!. I think I need to try a proper jersey for my
high intensity rides.

Ken

Yep, exact same experience. I like cotton, love the feel of it and nothing's
more comfortable for JRA. But if you're gonna sweat get a jersey. Even the cheap
ones aren't bad, but don't try to spend less than $30 for one. You might get
lucky with a sale and spend less, but the really cheap ones don't have the
wicking and fit and feel of the better ones.

I'm not a polyester fan and find that the cheapest have that yucky feel I
remember from yucky shirts of the disco era.

Besides, where else does a grown man get an excuse to wear something that loud.

Ron