There’s nothing worse than getting to work in a damp shirt, patches of sweat spreading out from under your arms like ink on blotting paper.
The visible fallout from a morning’s commute can leave you out of favour among colleagues and put many off getting on the bike for the commute in the first place.
There is of course the sensible solution of simply wearing proper cycling gear and then getting changed at work, but even that doesn’t cater for the post-workout sweats, where you are still oozing like a glacial spring a good half hour after you’ve stopped exercising.
This had clearly become something of an issue to Manchester graduates Oliver van Emden and Bradley Rose, the founders of Smartweave. Eight years ago they