Originally Posted by
BobbyG
My current bike clothes are wearing out and I'm worried that replacing the individual articles will throw-off my cool and cold temperature "formulas". Well, I'm not THAT worried, but I was curious if any of you have replaced or upgraded one or more of your layers and had your "formula thrown off.
Yes, and it takes some experimenting to get things dialed back in. And yes, clothing doesn't wear out all that often so at least I'm not dealing with it regularly. I have a little spreadsheet in 10 degree increments from -10F to 60F as I can't remember from season to season what works. And I've learned from experience that emotions can easily take over reality going into winter and I'd always overdress initially without that little spreadsheet. I just looked at it today for 16F for this afternoon's ride and my first reaction was, "I'll freeze!" But, it worked a month ago so it'll work again today.