if you want a serious waterproof you pays the money or get army surplus goretex for under £50 ;)

I have to save up some dollar for the same reason, my jacket that used to be waterproof now isn't and I'm relying on wearing half my wardrobe and hoping the rain deosn't make it through all the layers

I bought Gore-tex gloves and trousers and they prove to be waterproof enough so I'm getting a jacket now. Bear in mind though that my commute only takes half an hour.

Shoes is my problem now. I'm wearing overshoes but if it's pouring down the water still gets through the bottom of it :(

is overdrive the chap with the pastel green conder ?

I don't slump,I have excellent posture.

Hello, I'm not a courier but read your question about waterproof fabric and joined the forum so that I could answer.

I go to Glastonbury every year and despite the bad press about the amount of rain it is never as bad as the papers say most years having said that there have been bad years where I have worn my wellies and wterproofs for all 5 days, my advice is to go to millets and get some Fabsil (it's what we use to waterproof our tent) a couple of years ago somebody trying to be helpful washed my rain jacket! DOH! I went out in the rain acouple of days later and got soaked, then whilst spraying the tent ( and with nothing to lose) I had a eureka moment and sprayed the jacket too! It worked, I was nice and dry under it in 2007 and in the rain since :)

[Insert my obligatory Swrve Milwaukee rant here.]

Srsly - the Swrve Milwaukee is a m a z i n g! My number 1 top piece of kit. I reviewed it a couple of years ago, and experienced the revelation of riding along the A505 at 10pm on a cold night in January, in the freezing cold and pouring rain - and not wanting to stop, because I felt so cosy. It's totally waterproof, and bloody warm too.

Mine's on its third winter, and I actually found myself getting all excited in autumn, looking forward to wearing it again. I've only once got remotely damp in it, and that was after 10 hours of non-stop heavy rain. And I was only a little bit damp. And Chris (the Swrve guy) is really nice, and may be persuadable to offer a discount to soggy couriers.

(They come in at around the £100 mark. And it's worth every penny. Some second-hand ones also floating around on Ebay, LFGSS, etc.)

Hey John, been doing internet research on Milwaukee- more fashion item than proper waterproof it seems-
Blacks doing 2 for 1 offers i think-north face/berghaus/mountain equipment more expensive but proper-
years ago i used to work in YHA shop in Covent Garden so know a little about coats!
Peace, Adam

mike ---"10 hour solid downpour and only a little damp" sounds like miracle to me!
hope you gonna be out on friday for a couple of beers mate, peace

Hello porno,have'nt seen you about lately,though I did hear you went off to Amsterdam for some reason.There must be one or two interesting museums there or something,ahem.
Selim was telling me that swrve have a shop here in good'ol London town.I will come back with more details soon.

My hoodie is available for the next couple of days, in case anyone wants to try it out! (I'm at home with swine flu.)

And you can get them all over. Brixton, Cavendish, probably Brick Lane too.

Hmmm, that swrve hoodie does look nice, maybe i'll treat myself in the new year.

Having said, that my army & navy 'goretex' has been performing admirably. Jacket and trousers for half the price of the swrve.

What's the difference between goretex and softshell?

@overdrive. I know, it's been a while. We should go for a beer sometime soon. And I don't mean Friday Floundry Bollox. Call me. Yeah been to Holland. More precise Haarlem to assure myself that that is where I want to be in a couple of years time. And boy, it is. And as a matter of fact, I did go to the Franz Hals museum in Haarlem and the Anne Frank haus in Amsterdam. Very good it was and I've seen rooms you will not be able to see. Unless you know Eugenie. And then I drank loads of beer and mulled wine and malt whisky and I hope they haven't kicked me off the housing list.

I have a Swrve hoodie and the jacket too. I'd say the gore-tex one is more waterproof than the softshell water-resistant. I have the softshell, I mainly use it for commuting as the fit is quite relaxed. It has nice long cut arms and back though and is super warm, way more comfy than any raincoat I've used.
I think part of the reason it would keep rain out for so long is that it is quite thick and would take a lot of soaking to get through, I have never seen water bead on it as it would with gore-tex and similar materials. Still, I would recommend it right now, as it's chuffing baltic out there.

I actually just invested in a Mavic Creek. It's made from Gore-tex paclight. Need to stick a bunch of layers underneath when it's freezing but as for being waterproof it's the best thing I've tried in years, in that it's the only thing I've worked in that has actually kept a days rain out. They are stupid expensive, €290 on chain reaction, I found one on EBAY for £150 which was my upper limit. So far it's been worth it though. Sizing is weird however so beware, definitely get a size up from what you normally would. I always buy medium and I got a large and it's a perfect fit. Something to do with small French people I would imagine.

edit: by comparison I have a Small in the Swrve Milwaukee

Cheers,dubmess.
A good informative contribution to the thread,think I'll definitely get a swrve gore now.



Maurycy.
F*ck off you sad bastard.Keep your "guesses" inside that weird f*cking head of yours.Cnut.

@overdrive: seems like the surgical procedure is imminent in your case.. And you've missed, I've got a pretty relaxed and happy life :)

maurycy rides a cockhorse.

@emilia - are you sure that yours is goretex? i'm pretty sure the only goretex ones are the green ones and the tan ones. the others are just softshell.

we just got 3 size larges in today at velorution (one of the old style goretex in green, and two of the new model, the ES milwaukee which includes pit zips, elasticated cuffs underneath the regular cuffs, better visibility with the hood, and the back pocket which now has side entry).

i just got one for myself as well and i'm pretty excited about it.

I'm not sure who this 'mary' character is but I wouldn't trust her. She spews unintelligible jibberish and it's her first post on the board. The only Mary whom I know of who works at Velorution has been in her chambers all night, locked in lucubrations at the hands of a paperback I leant her on a short-term loan some time ago. Reasonable internet access is so restricted in the bowels of this house that I can't see anyway she could have written this.

Probably a narc looking for an easy catch... I'd steer well clear.

What's an IMO?

TK Maxx for the win!

I paid £27 for a snowboarding jacket and it does the same job as a boretex.
It does look shit though.