In article <[email hidden]> Chris Malcolm <[email hidden]> wrote: <snip>
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My answer is showerproof permeable stuff like Buffalo mountain shirts.
But ... they're 120 quid :-O
Perhaps more to the point is that outside of subzero temperatures they're Boil In The Bag!
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For cycling to work in ordinary street clothes nothing is as good as a cape.
Nah! all you need is a brolly -
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In article <[email hidden]> Chris Malcolm <[email hidden]> wrote: <snip>
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My answer is showerproof permeable stuff like Buffalo mountain shirts.
But ... they're 120 quid :-O
But if you have need of one, they're worth every penny. I have two good ones. I wear them for supervising night shift bridge inspections in winter - you can get very cold standing doing practically nothing on some railway embankment in the middle of nowhere all night.
If you're exercising it does need to be seriously cold to wear one. I wear an old worn-out one which has lost most of its insulation for winter cycling, but I probably wouldn't wear a new one.
For cycling to work in ordinary street clothes nothing is as good as a cape.
I need to get myself a cape for my London commute. Has anybody on here tried a Carradice Duxback cape? They look like they'll be made of heavier material than your average cape and I suspect they might blow about less. Has anybody tried one?
In article <[email hidden]> Chris Malcolm <[email hidden]> wrote: <snip>
Quoted message said:
My answer is showerproof permeable stuff like Buffalo mountain shirts.
But ... they're 120 quid :-O
Quoted message said:
Perhaps more to the point is that outside of subzero temperatures they're Boil In The Bag!
I'm wondering if we're talking about the same thing. They do a range of tops of variable thicknesses/warmths. They seem to change nearly every year, but mine when bought a few years was one of the lighter things they did at the time. Of couse it could just be that being an Old Trundly I simply don't emit as many thermal kilowatts as you do :-) When it's subzero mine gets a much-needed merino T-shirt underneath it.
-- Chris Malcolm [email hidden] DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
For cycling to work in ordinary street clothes nothing is as good as a cape.
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Nah! all you need is a brolly -
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Japanese utility bike accessories I covet are the brolley mounts. There one for carrying the folded brolly, and one for carrying the outspread brolly in the rain. In a calm summer shower nothing else quite so well communicates an aristrocratic disdain for speed.
-- Chris Malcolm [email hidden] DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
