They're pretty much exactly the ones I've got and they very nearly didn't survive their first trip. Riding back through France in a day long rainstorm they filled up with water to the point where my gloves were sitting in a puddle and my hands were freezing cold. Even tipping the water out periodically didn't help as the fur lining was still saturated. When I got back I just threw them in the corner of the garage and left them for about a year
I now use them on another bike with numerous holes cut for drainage, fastening in position with cable ties etc and modified they're just about ok. To give them a fighting chance I extended the screen on the bike sideways to keep off the full force of the rain and like that they coped well with a week of rain on the autobahn going to the Elephant Rally earlier in the year. There are better designs around but they do have the advantage of being cheap.
This winter I've been very tempted to try an alternative to the 5L containers that I saw on line somewhere - a pair of wellington boots with the toes cut off. The bars go in through the hole in the toe and you put your arms in where your legs would normally go. Just got to see if there's anything suitably priced in my local charity shops over Xmas.
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