Valdipino - my daughter and I were caught together in a monsoon one day and each had them - they were perfect. In lighter rain, I can certainly live without them, and will either wear the lightest shell or go wet. One thought about vented helmets - the run-off through your helmet and hair can temporarily blind you, but a Halo sweat band has a runoff channel that keeps your eyes seeing fine and not burning in the heaviest rain. I carry the Halo sweatband on every bike.
On Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:00:27 AM UTC-5, Bob B wrote: > > Which Vaude do you guys have? I like my Vaude Valdipino > <https://www.vaude.com/en-BE/Products/Clothing/Jackets/Valdipino-Poncho> > for light rains but mine barely covers the bars (bosco bars) but has no > elastic or anything to keep it there, so with the wind blowing around it > often flips or slides up. I've tried using clothes pins to clamp it to the > brake cables, but that's a pain in the butt and the poncho is then crooked > and doesn't shed the rain as well. > > My Sackville basket bag does great unless the rain is very heavy, at which > times the rain shedding off the vaude dumps directly down onto it, and the > water eventually soaks through. In those cases flipping it over the basket > would seem good, but I hear Jason about the steering situations. Though I > tend to ride cautiously, and even more cautiously during rain... > > Still on the fence about this thing but maybe I'll have to be the guinea > pig. Being able to ride every day no matter the weather is pretty important > to me so the investment seems worth it... > > Bob B > Brooklyn, NY > >> >> -- 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.
