What do you wear when it's 70 degrees?

[IFjane]

70 degrees is perfect! - shorts & short sleeves (or no sleeves) for me! I am taking off Thursday afternoon to get out on the road on the bike for the first time in a month & it's supposed to be 57. I'll have arm & knee warmers on unless there is a stiff wind - then I MIGHT wear my tights & jacket.

[pooks]

Those are exactly the reasons I'd like it to be cooler! I love the cool breeze, and need to have my arms covered. Family history of skin cancer, and I've already had a small one removed from my nose!

[Crankin]

Seventy is hard to figure out for me. I'll do shorts above 65, but the top layer is hard. If it's 70 at the start, I'll wear arm warmers and sometimes a vest over short sleeves, so i can peel the layers. If that's the highest it will be, I might be in a thin long sleeved jersey. Denise always has less clothes/layers than me when we ride, but I am slowly getting used to feeling cool at the beginning of a ride. Don't like it, though.

[bcipam]

Shorts even when it's very cold (my legs never get cold) and normally sleeveless if sunny or short sleeves if overcast. Between 65 - 70 degrees is perfect riding weather for me. Anything over that its hot and I get whiny!!!

Saturday here is was in the high 80's. I tried to mountain bike but the heat made me queasy. Sunday it got cooler around 68. Did 54 miles, piece of cake. The temp is a make or break for me.

[pooks]

Me too, Pam. I just don't tolerate heat at all.

[CyclChyk]

Ditto to the shorts and Tee's

And as for 70 degree weather........pleaseeeeeee bring it on!!!

[tygab]

70 degrees. hmm, I'd say it depends on the month.

If it's May, arm and leg warmers, to be removed if the breeze ever dies down.
If it's July, shorts and jersey, because it'll be 85 soon.
If it's January, a swimsuit!



Seriously, it does depend to me what the ancillary weather is like - breezes, humidity, temps rising over the ride or not... but all things being equal, 70 is about the perfect temp here! I don't like to ride much higher than the low 80s.

[annie]

I LOVE it hot. 80's, 90's and I am happy. Crazy, maybe, but true. 70 just doesn't feel all that warm to me. I would wear arm warmers, for sure. And probably either knickers or knee warmers (a little shorter than full leg warmers.) Once moving and armed up, it is easy to shed the arm warmers and either pull the knee warmers up or down. They are one more expense, but so worth it in changing temps. Have fun riding, Pooks!! I hope to be out soon.

annie

[Batbike]

the safe answer: whatever you want that makes YOU comfortable!!

actually, I cut-out something a few years ago from Bicycling Magazine on what to wear when the temperature is XYZ degrees -- it is a really good guideline as to what to wear, but not necessarily exactly what I would wear, but it gets me started in the "general direction". At 70 degrees they suggest base layer: short sleeve jersey and shorts.

so, I would suggest start with base layer and add/subtract based on your internal body temperature -- eveyone is different! good luck.

[bcipam]

I remember at the start of my first century (Tour de Tucson) seeing a woman in front of me wearing shorts and a sleeveless jersey. I don't usually wear much either but at the time it was 45 degrees. I was cold looking at her. Of course I was also wearing a sleeveless jersey but at least had on a bolero.

The coldest I've ever been on a ride... several years back I did a tour through Utah. It was in September. Weather varied alot. I never got it right. Day before I was over dressed. Knowing I had some climbing ahead of me I wore a ss jersey, shorts and arm warmers. Well that morning it was 30 degrees and we had a 10 mile downhill before the climb (which I did not know about). After zooming downhill for 5 miles I lost all feeling in my legs, arms, fingers and I couldn't see - I think my contacts froze. A friend made me stop riding and got me into a local truck stop, took me to the rest room and put me under the arm blower to warm up. I sat under that thing for 20 minutes. We then decided to have coffee and some pastries and waited until it warmed up. By the time we started I was now roasting in ss and wish I wore sleeveless. I just never got it right!