# Should I Purchase This Item?
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [August 20, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764 "2018-08-20T22:15:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 8
### Author:  [@Kryptotal\_Bogan](https://tarck.cc/u/Kryptotal_Bogan)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/142 "2019-05-08T02:35:29Z")
anyone an expert in arcteryx jacket models? i’m sick of reading gear reviews, i just want a rain proof jacket that’s good down to 40 freedom degrees
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### Author:  [@LASER\_BEIGE](https://tarck.cc/u/LASER_BEIGE)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/143 "2019-05-08T03:44:09Z")
Those 7mesh tho
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### Author:  [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/144 "2019-05-08T04:34:57Z")
Just get one with gore tex that is a little more than the price you want to pay. Preferably with pit zips.
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### Author:  [@cheese](https://tarck.cc/u/cheese)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/145 "2019-05-08T05:44:06Z")
Do you want a shell or a jacket? I’d suggest a 3 layer membrane in any system other than Goretex.
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### Author:  [@Kryptotal\_Bogan](https://tarck.cc/u/Kryptotal_Bogan)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/146 "2019-05-08T07:48:05Z")
probably a shell, i already have baselayer + patagucci puffy for mid
what’s wrong w goretex?
i was leanin towards a beta SL
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### Author:  [@cheese](https://tarck.cc/u/cheese)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/147 "2019-05-08T17:04:19Z")
Goretex is just less breathable, bulkier, and not any more water resistant than some of the other systems like Pertex Shield, Neoshell, event. Gore Pro is reportedly much improved but as far as I know still non-stretch.
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/148 "2019-05-08T17:10:01Z")
I really want to try Shakedry, but only when jackets made from it cost less that $400
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### Author:  [@cheese](https://tarck.cc/u/cheese)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/149 "2019-05-08T17:19:14Z")
Didn’t know that was available already and maybe that’s the move? Still isn’t stretch though.
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/150 "2019-05-08T17:28:54Z")
They were calling it GoreTexOne or something, and then renamed it, but I think it’s the same stuff that they debuted a few years ago. I’ve had not great luck with Pertex, what garments would you reccomend?
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### Author:  [@anon24974279](https://tarck.cc/u/anon24974279)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/151 "2019-05-08T17:31:42Z")
Anyone touch a soma dream riser bar? Looks interesting and I hadn’t noticed it before
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### Author:  [@BEEutiful\_Wednesday\_DDS](https://tarck.cc/u/BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/152 "2019-05-08T17:47:57Z")
why arcteryx? do you want to pay 2x more for the same functionality?
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### Author:  [@cheese](https://tarck.cc/u/cheese)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/153 "2019-05-08T18:08:36Z")
I have this and it’s fantastic. Massive pit zips, good trim cut, stays dry. Replaced an old Patagonia stretch Schoeller jacket that got ripped up.
> **[Firewall Jacket](https://rab.equipment/us/mens/waterproof/firewall-jacket)**
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> The Firewall Jacket is a fully-featured, stretch waterproof in a breathable Pertex Shield® + 3-layer fabric, for active year-round mountain use.
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### Author:  [@joyofvaping](https://tarck.cc/u/joyofvaping)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/154 "2019-05-08T18:09:08Z")
since that’s in san jose, it’s probably the same orange kelly frame i eyed at a bike swap a couple weekends ago!
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/155 "2019-05-08T18:29:02Z")
That looks pretty great - I wish the black didn’t have the loud contrast color zippers, but the ink color looks nice. I bought a closeout REI house brand rain shell last winter that fits and feels like a trash bag, I’ll look into getting that Rab Firewall after I ruin the REI shell by trying to tailor it.
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### Author:  [@Kryptotal\_Bogan](https://tarck.cc/u/Kryptotal_Bogan)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/156 "2019-05-08T20:25:24Z")
Yeh 4 sick fitz
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### Author:  [@cousinmosquito](https://tarck.cc/u/cousinmosquito)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/157 "2019-05-11T01:50:03Z")
Is there a less expensive hack-way to mount sram shitters on a 31.8 drop bar than Paul’s?
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### Author:  [@Straws](https://tarck.cc/u/Straws)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/158 "2019-05-11T04:14:39Z")
Less shit than the desire to mount a shifter there?
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### Author:  [@cousinmosquito](https://tarck.cc/u/cousinmosquito)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/159 "2019-05-11T04:57:47Z")
Swapability from flats to drops trumps shitness in this scenario.
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### Author:  [@Jacobell](https://tarck.cc/u/Jacobell)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/160 "2019-05-11T06:26:58Z")
How is the housing length for flats and drops even remotely close?
What are you doing for brake levers?
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### Author:  [@cousinmosquito](https://tarck.cc/u/cousinmosquito)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2019, 7:52am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/should-i-purchase-this-item/21764/161 "2019-05-11T07:52:31Z")
I’ve done it enough times to know that it works for me. 8 speed xtr brake levers and TRP road levers with BB7s, on the front.
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