http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: jacket - Recent Posts en Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:00:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-356880 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:35:48 +0000 gembo 356880@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I bought some cycling shorts with pad from Galibier recently. The memory foam pad is fantastic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-356879 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:05:38 +0000 mcairney 356879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I’ve also spied the Celeste Galibier jacket. Tempted but at the same time not sure I n the d yet another cycling jacket… </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-356878 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:28:09 +0000 Yodhrin 356878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That article is an awful lot of words to try and skirt around the reality that they are making exactly the same basic argument as high viz proponents always use.</p> <p>As usual, I wonder how far someone would get these days using all the correct caveats but still, in the end, suggesting that low-cut tops aren't a risk they're personally willing to take given supposedly objective measures of safety involved. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-356877 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:26:28 +0000 bill 356877@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo correct, yes, we have the green ones (forest green I think they named it). I was thinking about getting the orange one for myself but the reviewers said they were blinded when it arrived. I went for the green one to use it as an everyday/walking jacket. </p> <p>I like the new turquoise colour of the Tempest Pro 2 jacket. Seems visible without being flo yellow/orange. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-356875 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:10:01 +0000 gembo 356875@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bill, don’t you have two identical trendy green jackets tho? Not fluo yellow.</p> <p>The tangerine one you gave me stands out too I like to think </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-356873 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:43:43 +0000 bill 356873@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Came across <a href="https://www.galibier.cc/do-you-make-it-in-burgundy/">this post</a> from Galibier and their point of view on the colour choices they make. Quite interesting.</p> <p>I have been wearing head to toe Galibier garments recently and appreciating how comfortable they keep me in recent weather. I must admit that sometimes their designs don't fit me perfectly but I make them work nonetheless. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347924 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:01:26 +0000 Greenroofer 347924@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...and on that point, the Mistral bibs are very high up the front, have no zip and no facilities for undoing the straps without undressing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347865 Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:30:34 +0000 Sheeptoucher 347865@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"wee zip" very descriptive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347782 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 23:48:23 +0000 gembo 347782@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Strangely after telling me there wouldn’t be any restock until autumn they now have the biblongs back in. But in the interim I bought the Endura bibs that were reduced to close to same price. Also have a wee zip at the front good for the comfort stop. So better result I like to think as a means of resolving my cognitive dissonance. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347778 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 22:34:21 +0000 gembo 347778@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was cold out there today so that is good feedback. The Galibier tech is all about just a base layer then their jacket. It is the future </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347777 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 22:33:50 +0000 gembo 347777@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was cold out there today so that is good feedback. The Galibier tech is all about just a base layer then their jacket. It is the future </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347773 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 21:27:57 +0000 Greenroofer 347773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I went full Galibier today. Out on the Lang Whang with the Mistral bibs, and Mistral jacket. Only other layer was a Decathlon baselayer that has a windproof panel on the torso. Gloves, buff (some of the time). No shoe covers. Cotton cap under a magic plastic hat. Strava says windchill made the temperature 2C. I was very comfortable: the bibs are windproof, warm and fleecy and come up high at the front. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347748 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:18:04 +0000 Greenroofer 347748@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo: exactly. Your height is 2.09 times your waist. My height is 2.19 times my waist. My feeling from what I tried on tonight is that your build is more suited to their cut. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347747 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:47:58 +0000 gembo 347747@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bummer</p> <p>@greenroofer the Galibier bibshorts I paid express delivery for by mistake should fit quite well in summer I am 179.5cm tall but more like 85.5cm waist. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347745 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:08:01 +0000 Greenroofer 347745@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have received my replacement stuff from Galibier, sized up from Medium to Large. So both now feel right lengthwise, in that I'm not as vertically compressed as before, but both the shorts and the longs seem a bit baggy round the waist and thigh now. The shorts literally have little creases round the waist, and the longs are quite wrinkly on the thigh (although the fabric there isn't very stretchy)</p> <p>So my take from this is that the Galibier sizing model is for someone whose waist is larger relative to their height than me (i.e. more spherical and less cylindrical). I know my waist is on the low side for my height, but I wouldn't see my build as being <em>that </em>unusual for a regular bike rider. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347675 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:24:13 +0000 gembo 347675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shop often, but buy once</p> <p>Worked as the Endura bibs suddenly came back in stock </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347674 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:59:23 +0000 bill 347674@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo are you on a shopping spree?<br /> You seem to be shopping/looking a lot more than I do :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347651 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:21:30 +0000 gembo 347651@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just told Finesterre the surfing brand in a very very long questionnaire just to get 10% off that I followed the social Influencer Bill S.<br /> That is not Bill's social influencing name. I keep forgetting </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=3#post-347647 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:41:51 +0000 gembo 347647@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>looks like Evans shipping container arrived from China. They are selling the Endura FS260 Bibtight for £75 - good price. I like Endura as I am Medium. Also their three zips, roubaix etc</p> <p>David millar is sort of modelling Castelli in his own company Chpt3. The stuff is castelli. It has 1/3 off which is also good but no idea of sizing. Maybe slightly more relaxed than Castelli and maybe is their Kiss Pad??? Bit vague but lots of pictures of David. He is very beautiful </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-347607 Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:12:44 +0000 gembo 347607@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Road.cc just given the colombiere quilted jacket 9/10 not my style but usual very high spec for modest £72 pounds </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-347422 Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:53:39 +0000 bill 347422@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I received my replacement storm jacket medium and izogard gloves small. The jacket still too large for Mr Bill. Hopefully can replace for small. Also this time they added "Thermo+ skull cap". Don't know if that's by an accident or what but I am keeping it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-347421 Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:38:19 +0000 Greenroofer 347421@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo Happy to share my vital statistics if it helps people get the right size.</p> <p>I am 5ft 10in, 163lb, waist 31in, BMI 23.5, inside leg 31in. I can't remember my chest measurement (mainly because it's disappointingly smaller than when I did a lot of caving and climbing and could do one-armed pull-ups), but my proportions are now consistent with someone who gets most of their exercise on a bike. I count myself as being very 'medium' in normal clothes, without being aware of any particular issues with having a long torso or long legs.</p> <p>Anyway, I ordered Medium in the Mistral tights and the Peloton bibs and found both too short in the body so the shoulder straps were really tight and I felt compressed vertically. They weren't obviously tight round the waist. I concur that the Mistral legs were on the short side.</p> <p>I do find the same problem with Decathlon kit - for some of their bike stuff I am a Medium and for some I am a Large, but less so with their other stuff. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-347362 Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:57:46 +0000 gembo 347362@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@greenroofer if it is not too personal a question, what size was too small?</p> <p>I went for large as I find I am large in most non Italian sizes, large castelli too but they were tight but in a sale. So the large bibs I have for summer do fit me.</p> <p>Endura though plough a Scottish furrow and I am medium</p> <p>The reviews for the deep winter tights did often mention the shortness of leg </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-347355 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 22:56:02 +0000 Greenroofer 347355@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My purchases have arrived and been returned as they were too small: both bibs and biblongs seemed a bit short in the body. However they seemed very promising, so have gone for the next size up in each.</p> <p>Also had to send back a very snazy cap: although it was XL it wasn't as XL as their other XL cap that I already have and was therefore too small for my enormous head and thick skull/large brain. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-347338 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:42:12 +0000 amir 347338@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wore my Ardennes leg warmers for the first time today. They are superb. Very comfortable - no pressure on my thighs but they didn't slip at all. Coped well with a range of temperatures. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-347262 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:31:18 +0000 gembo 347262@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I tried to buy my Galibier biblongs but almost as a premonition from @Greenroofer they are all gone now until the autumn.</p> <p>I then thought what the heck get the pair they are modelled on Endura FS260 thermo bibtight.</p> <p>Endura also provide a zip at the front as well as ankle zips so better plus I am a medium in Endura though they are 99 British pounds</p> <p>Alas that size is sold out across all retailers.</p> <p>Going to be shorts for me from early in the season it would appear </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-347234 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:13:05 +0000 I were right about that saddle 347234@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hope those SOCKS aren't unbearably uncomfortable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-347233 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:12:14 +0000 bill 347233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On Sunday morning I passed someone wearing a Mistral jacket. That's the fourth one spotted around Edinburgh.</p> <p>I purchased a COURCHEVEL STORM JACKET size L for Mr Bill and IZOARD WINTER GLOVES size M for myself. Both too big so now waiting for the replacement. They came with free Merino socks (FIRE FEET 2) and regular socks (ARDENNES SOCKS). </p> <p>(I go for the free delivery as I factor in sending the items back) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-346954 Sat, 20 Feb 2021 22:28:41 +0000 gembo 346954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am tending towards the other pair then </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20402&page=2#post-346952 Sat, 20 Feb 2021 22:14:10 +0000 Greenroofer 346952@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have gone for the warmer ones, to replace my Decathlon membrane ones. I shall report back in due course (which may be in winter 21/22...) </p>