I wear their Foinaven Smock. https://hilltrek.co.uk/clothing/smocks/foinaven-smock/ I got it in red after my brain healed to the point I was riding trafficed roads and needed to be seen. Before that, I had a blue Liathach Smock, but found I didn’t need the extra features (my wife wears it now ... she is too smart to ride when it’s wet or frozen out!).
If I was getting a jacket only for cycling, I’d size down to a medium smock (they don’t offer their greenspot cycling jacket in cotton analogy), but since I also want to layer under, I am happy with the large. Yes, they size jackets up accordingly. Mine is a large, and that is what I generally wear in a shirt (either M long or L long, my monkey arms make it tricky). I do fine with even a boiled wool sweater underneith, though just. I’ve talked the ventile and Cotton Analogy up before, but I’ll repeat a few things for anyone new: The “analogy” part is a liner that actively pushes moisture out (both humidity and liquid) and essentially makes the jacket suitable as an insulative layer, so while the jacket is bulkier than plastic/nylon/goretex jackets, it replaces a wool shirt layer. Be aware of this, as if you want the jacket for warm/wet (which I don’t wear a jacket for) you will swelter. The jacket is perfect for Scotland/Colorado wet, where temps are 60’s or far lower when it rains or snows. Expectations when wearing: Once the outter “fake” waterproofing wears off, the jacket feels better and I think functions better, but it functions by swelling the outer layer’s cotton fibers to make them water proof. Moisture from exhurtion is then pushed out by the liner. So, the jacket gets wet and stiff from the water absorption, but the liner keeps this from soaking through to you as well as getting rid of sweat. With abandon, Patrick -- 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.
