It's just right from about 45*F down to 30*F if it's not windy, over a Wabi Woolens LS jersey. The high button neck keeps me from getting sore throats; with other garments I use a scarf. I recently bought my first real cycling jacket in years, of midweight fabrick, high collar, etc, but tho' this is nice in wind, I find that, even below freezing and layered over just one jersey, I start to sweat after a few miles. The tweed jersey is warm but breathes and, like other wool, adapts to a far greater range of temps.
I scored the tweed, 4 ss wool jerseys including a very appealing Cycles Wolfe Bienne retro copy with both rear and *front *pockets and a retro Raleigh jersey, a pair of wool cycling shorts, and a (too small, alas) pair of Euro wool cycling tights, for $120 or so from John Stamstadt who was selling the bunch several years ago. On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 2:01 PM, William deRosset <wmderos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >But I love my woolywarm ragg "overjersey" -- like a heavy sweater in > cyclists' jersey cut -- and the Rivendell ls "regular" jerseys were very > nice; in fact, I had one >that was too long and too wide. I tried to shrink > it a bit, finally washing it on "hot" and drying it on "cottons" -- no > luck, it didn't shrink a bit. I gave it to my (larger) >brother. > > Dear Patrick > > That tweed wool jersey was the best clothing item Rivendell ever produced, > and I've owned a fair amount of their stuff. Right weight, machine > washable, good club cut, reasonable arm length for cycling, pockets in > exactly the right spot, button neck. It was not easily improved, and it was > my favorite winter item for a decade. > > I should have bought a second one, as I eventually tore a hole in the body > and foolishly sent it to Alex Clarke (Woolistic) to get rewoven. They > misplaced it (along with my DC randonneurs jersey, and a the Ktena black > wool jersey I took to PBP 2011) and flat refused to do anything about it. > > Best, > > Will > > William M. deRosset > Fort Collins, CO > > On Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 10:38:49 AM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > >> New entry yesterday says that MUSA items will be cut back because they >> are cash flow killers. I have mixed feelings; on the one hand, I can find >> cycling clothing that, if not better overall, is certainly better for my >> uses, in many other places (eg, instead of MUSA pants, which I've owned, >> the Alitta pants I got (at GW, but they are available on sale online for >> $49) fit and feel better and *have a gdamn zip fly!!!* >> >> But I love my woolywarm ragg "overjersey" -- like a heavy sweater in >> cyclists' jersey cut -- and the Rivendell ls "regular" jerseys were very >> nice; in fact, I had one that was too long and too wide. I tried to shrink >> it a bit, finally washing it on "hot" and drying it on "cottons" -- no >> luck, it didn't shrink a bit. I gave it to my (larger) brother. >> >> But Crapmanship! What a nice notion! It reminds me of the gear I made in >> high school from very primitive materials: push gocart of which the wheels >> were sections I sawed by hand from logs, with tires strips of large tin can >> nailed to the wood. The knife I made from an old bolt by heating it red and >> hammering it flat, then shaping it with a file. The "brass" repousse work >> made from other tin cans with brass colored interior, cut into strips, >> hammered, and nailed to the firecracker guns I made: one musket and one >> pistol. I'm very glad we had no internet back then; hell, we didn't even >> have TV where we lived. >> >> -- >> Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. >> By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >> Other professional writing services. >> http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >> www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten >> ************************************* >> *************************************************** >> *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a >> circumference on which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities >> revolve. *Chuang Tzu >> >> *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the >> world revolves.) *Carthusian motto >> >> *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart >> >> *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. 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