Bike Clothing

• All You Need is Wool - All you need is wool (plus a little seersucker, sucker) If the charming, gnome-like folks who live on the edge of black holes in outer space came here today and studied hikers, climbers...

• Do you need a crotch pad, even? - That’s not the same as asking, “Do you want to be comfortable down there?” Padding helps when you have sores you’re trying to cushion, and when your saddle is uncomfortable...

• Don't Overthink Your Underwear - I haven’t changed my underwear to go on a ride in ten years, and I’ve never, even once, been three-quarters of the way through a ride and thought, why did I have to wear this?

• Socks - Get a sock that fits your foot in the shoe and suits the weather. We sell wool socks, super good ones, but they're made as everyday socks. Be suspicious of high-tech socks with eight different zones with different looks and thicknesses, and so on.

• Special Clothes for Riding? - Special clothes for riding? Special clothing just to ride a bike? Are you sure? (This is kind of a long rant.) If you have any doubts that you can ride in normal clothing...

• The Shoes Ruse - The Shoes Ruse (this is written for non-racers, and for riders who don't ride race-like). For recreational riders, tourists, commuters, general fitness riders...

• Why Wool Doesn't Stink - Why Wool Doesn't Stink, by Mary Stipe. There are two kinds of sweat glands: apocrine glands, the type found in your armpits, and eccrine glands, the type found everywhere else.