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- From: jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Rainsuit Recommendations Wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.150020.13080@rd.hydro.on.ca>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:00:20 GMT
- Article-I.D.: rd.1992Nov16.150020.13080
- References: <27487@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Ontario Hydro - Research Division
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- In article <27487@oasys.dt.navy.mil> forestel@oasys.dt.navy.mil (J. Lauren Forestell) writes:
- >I am often aware that his Dry Rider doesn't do the job adequately. Any
- >suggestions as to what kinds of (one-piece) rainsuits _really_ do the
- >job?
-
- I had a Rain Rider one-piece. I think that it's the same as the Dry Rider ones
- in the US, but I'm not sure. I struggled in and out if it for two years
- before it sprung a leak in the crotch (very embarrassing) and I had en excuse
- to get rid of it.
-
- During the summer I bought a Fieldsheer two-piece. It doesn't leak. Ever.
- It is much easier to deal with than a one piece. It has two useable pockets
- in the jacket and one in the pants. The jacket looks reasonable enough
- to wear in the street, so I don't have to leave a raincoat at work if I
- want to go for a walk at lunch. The jacket is fairly long so that the pants
- don't have to be of the annoying suspender type. Suspenders were provided,
- but I didn't like them so I cut them off.
-
- If, for some silly reason, you insist on a one piece, get one that has some
- sort of liner so that it can slide over wet leather. This usually means
- having the fabric of the PVC material on the inside. If you get a cheap
- suit with the fabric on the outside, rub some talcum powder in the shoulder
- area. This treatment lasts for several wearings and makes donning and doffing
- the suit much easier.
-
- Anecdote:
- So I made it. It's 25 C outside, raining in torrents and I'm sweating up a
- storm. I grab the soaking wet tankbag off the bike, dig my house keys out
- of it, and manage to unlock the door. I push the dog out of the way and
- scramble down to the bathroom in the basement. Yank the gloves off. And the
- helmet. The steam from inside my leathers is fogging up my glasses and my
- bladder is about to burst. I unzip the front of the rainsuit and wiggle one
- hand from under the wrist cuff elastic and tug on the sleeve with the other
- hand. It's not moving. Squeak! Squeak! Wriggle, tug, yank,......
- aaaarrrrrghghgh! Screw it, I'll take the leathers off with the rainsuit still
- on top. I poke my hand back through the end of the sleeve and drag the
- sleeve up to my elbow (squeeeeeek) so that I can get at the sleeve zipper
- of my leathers. I manage to unzip the zipper before that stupid elastic cuts
- off the circulation to my arm.....
-
- (the rest of this anecdote contains coarse language unsuitable for the general
- public, while this may not be a problem for rec.moto, I think you get the
- idea and I don't feel like typing anymore)
-
- My friends, one piece rainsuits are no fun.
-
- I've bike like | Jody Levine DoD #275 kV
- got a you can if you -PF | Jody.P.Levine@hydro.on.ca
- ride it | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
-
- Where's that number for Aerostitch....
-