Help Buying New Textile Jacket

Ive been researching this, this week. Ive come up with these as a suit:


HG TRAVEL SHELTEX JACKET BLACK
http://www.hein-gericke.co.uk/shop/p...oducts_id/5004

HG TOURING PANTS BLACK
http://www.hein-gericke.co.uk/shop/p...oducts_id/5024

Bit expensive but its what im looking to get

Originally Posted by Stuuk1

Ive been researching this, this week. Ive come up with these as a suit:


HG TRAVEL SHELTEX JACKET BLACK
http://www.hein-gericke.co.uk/shop/p...oducts_id/5004

HG TOURING PANTS BLACK
http://www.hein-gericke.co.uk/shop/p...oducts_id/5024

Bit expensive but its what im looking to get

Right now the Nagano and Atlas are on offer for £350 until Tuesday. Same money you are looking to spend but Goretex?!?!?!?!? There is another thread about it. Everyone looking for wet weather gear at the moment.

Chobby - the lowest priced waterproof we do is Boost, £80 for the trousers and £100 for the jacket. Come and see me and I'll give you one of them there £10 vouchers I been running on about for weeks.

Originally Posted by Chobblington

Anyone have any thoughts on Ixon jackets? My first and current jacket is an Ixon jacket and it has served me very well, although I haven't come off in it so I don't know what it would be like in an off.

I have an Ixon Magic jacket and it's served me pretty well - warm with the lining in, comfortable, showerproof (as long as I keep it treated), although in a deluge I'd probably get damp. I'd recommend them personally, although if you're after wet-weather riding, invest in a waterproof over-jacket.

[christopher]

For what it's worth, I wore the Hein Gericke Boost Pants for about 18 months before I decided it'd be interesting to crash test them at 50mph... up until the point I went rolling down the road and put a nice hole in the outer material at the knee (armour and inners all fine, as was I) they were completely waterproof and I rode in some horrendous weather. Never reproofed them either.

Well impressed for the price, were £60 when I bought them! The downside is they use HG's own Sheltex which doesn't allow for much airflow I find, so got a bit warm when the weather was nice. If the jacket is the same then it's decent budget kit.

Plus one vote for the HG Goretex kit. I have the 'Journey' trousers (got when I started biking, survived my first crash which put a tear in the knee but didn't breach the Goretex so I stitched them up) and the matching 'Journey' jacket - a much more recent purchase.

Never leaked a drop, despite some absolutely torrential downpours - including one on the M4 that lasted an hour and is the heaviest rain I can ever recall in any situation, biking or otherwise.

As someone else alluded to, the people who own the Goretex trademark (think it is DuPont?) have some pretty strict standard and won't allow the material to be used on anything that isn't good kit. HG branded kit seems to be generally very well made, and if you look out for end of line stuff you can get very good deals. My trousers were £150 and the jacket was £150 a year later when they were getting rid of the last few (often find with HG end of line bargains that none are left in the stores and you need to go online).

I have a fair bit of waterproof kit for various outdoor activities I do (walking, golf, skiing - as well as biking) and over the years I've discovered, having wasted a bit of cash on sub-standard kit, that if it doesn't carry the Goretex trademark then it will leak eventually and won't breathe at all.

Scrimp and save, spend the extra - get Goretex.