ty wrote:Don't know much about the more expensive stuff - I'd bow to Marty and Mick on them.
But I always got away with middle-range stuff on my commute - DriRider gortex jacket with rain and winter liner (~$400 from memory), goretex winter gloves (~$100), rain over-pants ($100, not the $50 rubbish), and goretex boots ($400, brand eludes me at the moment).
At worst I got a few wet spots on the 1.5hr (in the rain) commute in lengthy major downpours - regular rain was normally no issue.
I still have them all - and the dririder jacket has survived 2 major offs with little to show for it.
On the draggins front - I've always used them. Never had the draggin jeans, always used the draggin cargos.
Comfy, survived a couple of offs well, and warmer than the jeans in the winter. But because they're looser they're cooler in the summer too.
You can get a bit of an abrasion from the kevlar in an off (I did on my knee - I wouldn't suggest going commando), you wouldn't get that in leathers.
hth
ty
I'm not saying they never have...but I have never seen Goretex used in a Dri-Rider jacket??? If they do, I wish I knew before I bought my exxie Goretex stuff!!!
WHen you buy stuff in bike shops, some ignorant sales people will call other products Goretex. But unless it has a Goretex logo on it, then it's some other alternative waterproofing material, which in my experience just don't compare. Reissa is one such copy.
) $120, rjays thinsulate lined gloves with kevlar fingers $90, have ridden in pouring rain (from whittlesea to bendigo 130km) stayed dry except for damp around my wrists, apart from that I was dry as a bone.
