I don't ride a lot in the rain. If I'm out and rains it rains, if I'm home and it's raining good I likely will either wait or go for a walk. Back in the 80's I had some Bellweather pants and jacket that were just mildly rain resistant but I never died from ever getting wet. I've been wearing various hooded windbreakers since. I've wanted to get a packable rain jacket, but I never met one that I wanted to buy. Not a cycling rain jacket, I hate cycling specific jackets, just a all purpose rain jacket I can wear all year long, be very lightweight and packable to the size of a 29 oz. can of tomatoes, or so. It also had to have a trim fit and a well fitting hood that covers my chin and cinches around my face if I want. It had to be able to pass body heat vapor well too not only during rain but also when dry. This year I finally saw something that looked interesting, a Montbell Rain Trekker made with seam taped Gore Infinium Windstopper fabric. It supposedly was waterproof enough and pass enough body vapor not to die from heat exhaustion without the need for other ventilation, so I tried it. I've put it to the test real good, getting hammered by some sustained downpours in the 50's and 60's and worn it on a dry cloudy turned sunny day in the low to mid 60's. I was pleasantly surprised it did well as both, so good enough to carry with me in my bag, and weighs a mere 7 ounces in the large.
I do have a couple of pair of Sportful Norain Fiandre Pro bib shorts that are quite water resistant from the DWR surface treatment and it really does keep shorts from getting soaked, and they're lightly fleeced inside so don't get that chilling effect that slick poly/lycra does. I like natural plastic clothing for bike riding as like everything else there's really fine fabrics and there's really crappy fabrics. Other that, I enjoy the outdoors and if it rains start singing just because I can. One bike has fenders and one doesn't. I can't say it much matters either way to me, well no, I really prefer a plain ol' road bike w/o fenders. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a2d2479a-5e80-43e8-a275-394b7b3e618en%40googlegroups.com.
