FWIW, an unzipped full zip jersey seems to me at least as cool as no jersey on the trainer since with a blower type fan it tends to turn into a sail and trap and guide more air around your torso. I don’t wear a jersey when its warm but when its cool, it lets you stay warm at the start but I don’t over heat once I get a sweat on.
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Jeez…all you guys just in bibs…no way I could do that. Would drive me insane to not have a top on of some sort. I don’t really like the feeling of air blowing over me anyway, so riding without a top of some kind would kill me!!
And definitely get a remote for your fan. I usually start with a sweatshirt on, peel that off after 5 min and then turn the fan on after about 10 once I get some sweat going.
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I wear no jersey so that i don’t sweat… it just evaporates and ive usually got a bit of salt crust afterwards. When i do no fan sessions i drip more from my brow or hands. My hands sweat so much i often wear gloves indoors as i dont like the feeling of super slippery bars.
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Yeah, I wear gloves inside also, mostly as moisture management. Definitely not needed for “comfort”, but it keeps the bars dry(er) and easier to wipe the occasional bead away with glvoes than reaching for the towel, etc.
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Came into this thread to post this exact thing. Remote on/off for my fan was a game-changer.
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I’m a serious Sweaty Dude, so I always wear a jersey and gloves inside. On 90 or 120 minute workouts, I also have a) two super-absorbant sweatbands, b) a towel draped over my handlebars, and c) a spare jersey for when the first one gets too soaked. I also have one floor fan and two stand fans pointed at me – they’re on a remote, but they are always on, after about 5 to 10 minutes.
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Nope, just padded shorts, socks and shoes. I have a beer towel draped over the bars, bottle of water on the side next to me. Done!
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No jersey, just regular workout shirts. Sometimes two when I get really sweaty or nothing at all.
If it’s cold inside, like first thing in the morning, I’ll wear a light sweatshirt at the start but usually take it off pretty quickly.
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In the bike room now, no jersey.
Back when I had my setup in the garage – which was unheated – the temp might be as low as 3C, 38F – then I would have on a jersey and a hat, maybe even arm or leg warmers.
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I’m a seriously sweaty dude as well and take the opposite approach. Anything I wear would get soaked in sweat very quickly. So I go bibs only, no gloves, and have a towel over the bars, and a spare towel on a chair next to me for longer or harder rides. A lot more sweat evaporates without the jersey, and a towel can absorb a lot more than my gloves can. You can also get an amplified cooling effect from your palms - I have a fan to each side angled up at me, I regularly put my palms in front of the fan from the drops position, it dries the sweat off and helps cool me down.
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Hrmmmmm, I may give this a shot, sometime. Just worried about getting too cold with all those fans on me!
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I wear a jersey, but really only for someone easy to stow my phone as I’m using corded headphones, plus I tend to skip songs on my playlist if I’m not feeling it! Never really felt like it makes me sweatier, usually ends up unzipped anyway
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For me it’s hood top for the walk to garage and 1st interval then fan on and top off m. Once your warm it’s harder to get cooler agin a sweet deck over the bike is a must I have got rusty bolts on the handle bars now
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I wear a lose fitting running shirt with 2 fans on harder days and 1 fan on easy days. I don’t really like the cold air hitting me without a shirt on.
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Yes but for the warm-up only, normally.
In the late Spring, no, Early Autumn and weather decent No.
Summer, No.
Winter, Yes when <5C outside, might take it off on last intervals.
Overshoes, late Autumn and winter as the blood doesn’t get to the toes to keep them warm.
This week has been inbetween, Jersey taken off about 40 - 50% in but feet freezing.
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Start off with a sleeveless base layer but that usually gets chucked after the warmup. I don’t even like bib straps on the trainer; got some regular shorts recently just for indoor rides.
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For me it is no jersey but I use sleeveless base layer - keeps sweat from torso. I do not sweat a lot, despite not using a fan (I train in my living room, over 100 years old building so it is quite chilly). I prefer base, because my cycling jerseys are old old and loose fit, so they do not have any purpoise without a fan.
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No jersey, just shorts and a sports bra, which handily catches the sweat that pools around my heart rate monitor. Sometimes bibs depending on what’s clean, but the straps definitely have an impact on heat.
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No jersey. I warm up in a tech fabric tee shirt and then take that off and ride in bibs. Less laundry, jerseys last longer.
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No jersey for me. Just bibshorts. And I have a stack of cotton headbands for when the sweat really starts to flow.
My family tells me that black bibshorts, no shirt, and a headband is… not a sexy look :-). But it isn’t a fashion show, eh?
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