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Old 16 Feb 2021
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Wet weather gear .............. dead simple , buy a plastic jacket 2 sizes bigger and plastic trousres 2 sizes bigger , so the come allmost up to your chest and cut an inner tube into stips to seal cuffs on jacket and it will keep you dry !
I drove 300 miles through France with torrential rain and was dry as a bone except for a wee bit around my neck !
Or better still ...............
ride on a sunny day !
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Or better still ...............
ride on a sunny day !
By far the best solution. Is it going to rain today? Yep. In that case I will have another round of toast and some more tea please. Time to catch up with some reading, snoozing, talking, planning etc. Tomorrow may be dry and then it will be time to ride.

I have to admit that I am planning my trip to avoid wet / cold weather - I have ridden enough in the cold and wet to know it takes a large amount of the fun away most of the time.

My gear is waterproof at the moment and the design of the Moto Guzzi’s fairing is such that I don’t get too wet anyway and the heat from the engine dries off my legs nicely. Many years ago I heard a story that BMW fairings were designed so that the warm air from the air cooled engine was directed over the rider to keep them warm. I have never found out as my old BMW has no fairing - so I don’t know if it is true or not - but it seems to be the case with the Guzzi.
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Gore Tex. Yes it's expensive, no it doesn't work forever, no it doesn't work perfectly..........but it's good and easy to use.

Going out for a ride in the rain when you start in your home or hotel room is one thing: get all the gear on just right while you're warm and dry. Riding in changing conditions is a whole other story: stop and gear up before you get wet? or stop while you're getting wet? stop when it's drying out and you're getting too hot? or keep on going and suffer?



I've personally decided on Goretex with good venting- pants and jacket. Put it on and leave it on. Ride through a rain shower and into the sun, and just keep going, multiple times in an afternoon. Goretex can handle an all day rain as good as almost anything else and you don't have to make all those gear stops.

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I work in the clothing dept of a large motorbike franchise up until I started I wore what I could afford and what fitted . Now I am fully kitted up in what works . U pay alot for rukka because they use completely waterproof zips on their top line jackets.....75 quid a pop . I would look for proper sealed waterproof vents that go straight to ur body , cheaper ones have to bent thru the waterproof liner first . I would always use laminated, drop liners allow the outer she to become sodden .
There are three types of gortex , rukka generally use the pro version which breathes the best. As was pointed out if u dont wash it , u will get water ingress usually on the arms first.
I'll stop here as otherwise I'll bore u to death with jacket and trouser specs.......am more then happy to give an honest opinion on kit if someone is going to take the plunge and spend serious cash
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Leather
Leather.
Old style

Freezing when it is cold outside
Boiling when it is warm outside
Wet for days after heavy rain.....

But....
Using good leather grease softens the leather and goes in quite deeply, making it water resistant to some degree
Full vinyl suit to put outside when it is raining.

I always have by leather well greased and carry my rain suit in the tank bag.
And never try to use "waterproof" gear like gore tex

But
I am an old man with old habits
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