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"Stuffable" rain jacket

  • 27-07-2012 5:19pm
    #1
    rflynnr
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭


    Looking to buy a lightweight rain jacket I can stuff in my jersey pocket. I've tried on the Bicycle Line Huston in Cyclesuperstore and it seemed fine but obviously I have no idea how it'll perform in practice. Does anyone else have any experience with it? Or - failing that - does anyone have a stuffable jacket they particular recommend? Assos Blitzfelder? Giordana SS12? etc.


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  • #2
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    I vaguely remember selling you a navy blue Zoot jacket a couple of years ago. Did I imagine it?


  • #3
    dingdong1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 828 ✭✭✭dingdong1234567


    Picked up one of these today: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=61519

    packs up snug as a bug also very light.


  • #4
    Seweryn
    Registered Users Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    rflynnr wrote: »
    Looking to buy a lightweight rain jacket I can stuff in my jersey pocket. I've tried on the Bicycle Line Huston in Cyclesuperstore and it seemed fine but obviously I have no idea how it'll perform in practice. Does anyone else have any experience with it? Or - failing that - does anyone have a stuffable jacket they particular recommend? Assos Blitzfelder? Giordana SS12? etc.
    I use this one and can definitely recommend it.


  • #5
    furiousox
    Registered Users Posts: 6,894 ✭✭✭furiousox


    Picked one of these up in Eurocycles.
    Lightweight, rainproof and breathable.
    Rolls up into back pocket of jersey too.

    http://www.evanscycles.com/products/altura/ergofit-race-cape-jacket-ec025044

    CPL 593H



  • #6
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    I can recommend the Montane FeatherLite Velo Jacket - there's a free one for you in a ditch somewhere just outside Sneem on the Kenmare side.

    Respectably wind and waterproof for it's size and weight.


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  • #7
    el Bastardo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 573 ✭✭✭el Bastardo


    Jawgap wrote: »
    I can recommend the Montane FeatherLite Velo Jacket - there's a free one for you in a ditch somewhere just outside Sneem on the Kenmare side.

    Respectably wind and waterproof for it's size and weight.

    I have one of those. I get wet while wearing it, either from rain or sweat (the ventilation is a bit rubbish), and it therefore needs washing quite often... so bye-bye waterproofing unless you get the Nikwax out. The only use I've found for it is as a packable windproof hi-vis.


  • #8
    Ole Rodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


    I like the DHB Wispa , although not for long heavy showers.


  • #9
    rflynnr
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭rflynnr


    Lumen wrote: »
    I vaguely remember selling you a navy blue Zoot jacket a couple of years ago. Did I imagine it?
    I also vaguely recall you selling it but - crucially - not to me.


  • #10
    rflynnr
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭rflynnr


    Seweryn wrote: »
    I use this one and can definitely recommend it.

    Good god, that's expensive. Makes Assos look positively affordable. I am a bit of of fan of Gore though. In your experience how tough is the material? Likely to rip on the first thorn it snags on or more forgiving?


  • #11
    rflynnr
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭rflynnr


    Jawgap wrote: »
    I can recommend the Montane FeatherLite Velo Jacket - there's a free one for you in a ditch somewhere just outside Sneem on the Kenmare side.

    Respectably wind and waterproof for it's size and weight.

    Oddly enough I used to have one of these. It too awaits discovery somewhere between Sally Gap and Blessington.


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  • #12
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    rflynnr wrote: »
    Good god, that's expensive. Makes Assos look positively affordable. I am a bit of of fan of Gore though. In your experience how tough is the material? Likely to rip on the first thorn it snags on or more forgiving?

    I have a Gore Oxygen III which is probably quite similar. It very rarely gets used as most conditions are either not wet enough or too cold for it. Tough enough though.


  • #13
    rflynnr
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭rflynnr


    I ended up buying an Assos Luftschutz from Cyclesuperstore. Even on sale it was €170 but it was kind of an emergency as I had to have something for the Tour of Meath. That said, it's stunningly effective: in the comically wet downpower that marked the latter stages of the day it pretty much kept me dry and proved remarkably breathable. Definitely worth considering as Cyclesuperstore's price matches/improves anything I could find on the web.


  • #14
    MB Lacey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭MB Lacey


    I bought the Altura pocket rocket from great outdoors a few weeks back, €90, completely waterproof - and it's been tested thoroughly in these downpours.
    being so waterproof it's not so breathable and is a bit warm to wear if it's not raining in these temps, but in a few weeks when it gets colder it will be perfect to wear when not raining.
    Scrunches up really small.


  • #15
    route66
    Registered Users Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭route66


    Got mine in LIDL for a tenner


  • #16
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    route66 wrote: »
    Got mine in LIDL for a tenner


    I've the aldi one, it stuffs under the saddle. Keeps me dry and stuffs away


  • #17
    Dipsomaniac
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭Dipsomaniac


    BX 19 wrote: »
    I've the aldi one, it stuffs under the saddle. Keeps me dry and stuffs away

    Have the lidl/aldi one as well. Not breathable but kept it in my jersey pocket with my arm warmers so I have them when needed in Irelands changable weather conditions.


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