Today, 22°F with a wind-chill/Real FeelŪ of 16°F (once again, the wind was at my back...not sure how I'm gonna fare on the return trip into that headwind tonight!)
But I think I may have actually been overdressed:
- lightweight waffle-knit polyester turtleneck base layer
- Early Winters Furnace Shirt (a thick fleece-y polypro jersey that I usually wear as a base layer)
- Assos 851 AirJack jacket
- Giro merino wool winter cap
- Perfomance shorts
- Pearl Izumi Amphib bib tights
- merino wool socks
- Answer winter cycling boots
- Specialized Sub Zero glove system (an impressive-looking but not-so-impressive-performing combination of a space-age high-tech glove liner and a generic thin fleece-lined ski glove outer shell)
- generic glove liners underneath all ^^^that (due to the aforementioned not-so-impressive-performance of the two-part system...so yeah, three gloves today)
- helmet
- glasses
Both the Airjack and the Furnace Shirt punch well above their weight class in terms of warmth; combined with the ample torso coverage of the Amphib bibs I think I probably could have skipped the base layer and still been perfectly comfortable today.