Can anyone recommend a "riding" shirt? looking for something for hot weather riding, everything I find after taking a good look at it is just a riding jacket made to look like a shirt, just looking for some trust worthy info, as I value real riders opinions.

 

I’ve had one surgery for Melanoma on my arm. Not fun. Trying to be really cautious now. Plus good visibility.

 

I always wear Nike Dry fit. Super thin and wicks moisture away. I just got two more in white last week. One long sleeve tee and one short sleeve polo.

And yesterday, I bought a cooling vest. The evaporation kind. Only a few of the cooling vest look good. Not the one I got. The cool looking ones, are all in black.

I don't want any black on me in hot temps and sun.

 

Discovered something recently I thought was a gimmick, those cooling compression arm sleeves popular in sports. During the heat wave last week I tried some, my arms were much cooler in the sunlight and a bonus came away from some dirty grunt work that would have bruised me up normally without a mark. Roll them on and off, stuffed in a pocket till needed, I'm sold on them, $17 for 6 pr on Amazon. No rider protection but beats hell of sticky lotion for the sunburn and any air flow cools them.

 

You can also get them with tattoo's so you can look like a bad-***...........

 

these work well, are inexpensive, and you can soak one, and put the other is a ziplock bag of water.......when one dries out, swap it with the one in the ziplock......rinse and repeat as needed....

 

I bought three L/S shirts made by Hurley at Sam's Club for mowing grass.

They're 88%polyester and 12% spandex and they work very well.

When I'm on my trike I usually wear a Polo or T-Shirt and if I'm going to be riding for or than 15 minutes of so I put on my H-D "mesh jacket".
I also keep a lightweight hoodie that I can put on under the mesh jacket.

 

I know you asked for a riding shirt, this is not a shirt just arm sleeves. I like this during summer. I also got Harley mesh jacket that I wore in 80° and it was not bad. Now it’s 100+ and will see how I like it.

 

I have a street and steel ‘mission moto’ shirt and it’s basically a flannel with shoulder and elbow armor-it will accept back armor too. It’s fine at 90 or so when you’re moving/ not so much for around town. I also have scorpion ‘exo covert flannel riding shirt’ no armor but is Kevlar lined in its entirety. It will accept shoulder, elbow and back armor. Same experience as the other shirt mentioned, good when its hot when your going 45 and faster.
Here’s one I haven’t tried but looks like it may be cooler than both mine.
https://www.cyclegear.com/gear/reax-...e-riding-shirt

 

I came across these, ordered one. The mesh shirt w/level 2 armor. Hoping to not roast in 90* weather. They say they make em to order.

https://www.skullriderz.com/products...39318916333683