Must have been the West coast rep and not someone from back home.
What booties did you get? The $20 neoprene LG are giving me it (but for how long?).
35 dollar endura ones in grey digital cammo. they are neoprene, and have a full rubber toe.
[quote=curiousincident][quote=scrub]I was looking at soft shells yesterday at the shop, they also had these Endura jerseys that look pretty sweet, windproof front with fleece back for $100
http://www.endurasport.com/Product.aspx?dept_id=126&prod_id=584[/quote]
i have last year’s model, and i love it for winter road rides. it’s a jersey that’s well on its way to becoming a jacket. front beads water nicely for not being truly waterproof, back ventilates, nice pockets, long sleeves. with a long sleeve wool baselayer i can rock this down to about 25-30* temps.
never used it for such but i’m sure it could be fine over casual clothes for commuting in the upper 30s-40s. that said i plan on getting their urban softshell for that kinda stuff. we sell endura at our shop and stuff is a great deal, even at msrp.[/quote]
So I bought the Endura jersey and have worn it 4 or 5 times in the past 2 weeks. Today was 35-42*F and dry, so nice, the jersey ruled. I had to get a large even though I’m only 5’7" and about 155lbs to get it to fit my shoulders. There is enough room (just) for me to wear an Icebreaker long sleeve and a long sleeve jersey under it the wind stopping front works pretty well and I can fit a bunch of stuff in the rear pockets.
Overall I like it.
Gotta love Virginia weather… 36 hours ago it it was 70. Now it’s 26.
That is enough to make me feel sick just hearing about.
TC: I miss living in CO or other places where it gets that warm during the Winter but you still get snow and actual cold.
Yeah I hear that accidentally left the house in a thin hoodie and was walking around for an hour getting random shit done before going to work. So cold.
17, feels like 5. Glad my commute isn’t so long that I can’t just throw on a ton of layers in whatever materialway and not be a sweaty mess by the time I get to work.
[quote=bonechilling]I’ve got the new Sugoi RSE jacket with whatever Polertec bullshit is supposed to be the best ever. Last night was my first wet ride in it (16 miles), and it was pretty solid. At one point, climbing a hill, I started to be aware that the fabric was sticking to my skin, so it doesn’t breath perfectly, but none of this high-tech shit ever does, despite claims to the contrary. I ended up with the medium, which is probably a hair too large, but it was hard to complain about the shop-bro price.
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Ok, this jacket is actually pretty great. Wore it for a 40-mile MTB ride in 45° rain, and with a wool baselayer, by torso stayed nice and dry - wasn’t even particularly sweaty). Also had a few wet commutes and a wet hike, and yeah, I’m a little clammy on the steepest slopes, when I’m working the hardest, but generally pretty dry. Wish it were less bulky, and since it’s not light, pit-zips would be rad, but those are minor complaints. Only my hands were ever cold and wet, which reminds me, who makes the best waterproof gloves?
I was looking at a pair of the Castelli Diluvios, but I’m in on fence about the waterproof glove idea in the first place. Should I even bother, or just accept wet hands? I’m afraid that these won’t breath, I’ll just sweat inside them, and end up with cold hands, anyway.
I still love my ninja ice gloves even when wet they stay warm. I know Petr will disagree with me but I think he was using them in much lower temperatures than I do(usually nothing below 20F)
Got that jacket too. It’s ok. Pit zips would be nice cos can get a little toasty.
I tried the ninja ices in very cold weather (~5 °f) after reading all of the reviews from fish processors. They’re not wind proof enough for that, but I kept trying them in various conditions. They’re best for the rain, really. Not so cold it’s snowing and fairly warm even when soaked. The water helps seal them up a bit too it seems.
I’ve been getting the best results from wearing two pairs of gloves, the inner being wool and the outer being wind blocking.
I prefer to go lighter on the gloves than multi layering 'cause having your hands be too hot and sweaty is fucking terrible. Usually some light felt gloves to block wind does the trick as my hands heat up quite a bit as I get riding.
Never felt the need for waterproof gloves 'cause it doesn’t actually snow all that often up here, maybe like one or two blizzards a year where it would actually deposit enough snow on your gloves to make wetness an issue.
Can we revisit goggles. Earlier mention of them broke loose a thought or two.
For some inconceivable reason I don’t a single pair anymore. How far up from disposable would one need to venture in order to get a functional pair?
Lenses on fancy ones get scratched and coatings smeared, or at least they used to very easily, so I’m aiming squarely at function and a small amount of use. One week tops when it is like -100 and no skin can be exposed.
Priority given to answers from people who’ve spent time outdoors in those conditions. I’m looking at you Canada and Canadian expats.
I’ve never used the cheap pairs in winter so I couldn’t comment on fogging on those. Have used cheap pairs for downhill mountain biking when I forgot mine and the loss in peripheral vision is a real pain in the ass IMO. If you get the idea of maybe using shop goggles don’t do that as everything is bad about those (bought a pair to use in a bind, was uncomfortable, fogged like crazy, terrible peripheral vision).
Have been using a reasonably priced pair of DX Goggles from Dragon that I’ve had for over a decade without problem though. I originally used them for snowboarding but the lenses have not gotten scratched in all that time, they don’t fog up, and they offer excellent field of view. Replacement lenses are 20 dollars for the odd case where “shit happens”. They’re 65 dollars MSRP so they’re not disposable but they’re not bank breaking expensive either. The fact that the lenses are slightly recessed compared to the goggle frame probably is a big part of why they aren’t scratched at all.
http://www.dragonalliance.com/en-us/snow-goggles/dx-26648/722-4325-999
Might be a bit too “snowboard bro” look for some, but if it’s cold enough that I need goggles I DGAF about style considerations at that point.
tc: Rode into town like a weenie today. Mixed patches of slush and ice combined with traffic that seems to speed more in unsafe conditions than safe ones slowed me way down.also cause I strapped a 3 foot long rock shox box (with a 100mm Reba in at) across my rack to take to the shop so they could put it on my new bike, and I wasnt about to crash and fuck that thing up.
Did you have the fully rubber coated ones or the ones with only a palm coating? Mine are only palm coated but id imagine the fully coated ones would be more wind waterproof but even less breathable. These are not what I would call breathable in anyway shape or form but I don’t really have a problem with hands getting too warm and they stay warm even when they get wet so whatever, ill take warm pruny fingers over ones that feel like they might fall off any day.
Palm seal only. I’m sure you’re right, but I’m pretty happy with my Burton snowboarding gloves for really low temps. I usually prefer gloves that go over my sleeves rather than under (better monkey arm coverage) anyway, so that experiment is done.
Gauntlet is the only acceptable answer unless you are 4.
Yeah it just doesn’t get that cold here to need anything other than the NIGs plus I can do things like wear them all night at polo, open beers, reach in my pockets, light a cigarette and stuff with them on. DEXTERITY is awesome. Also once you get sweat into them pretty good they work halfway decent on a touch screen.