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  • Re: Waxed cotten never used to be like this

    From wessie@willnotwork@tesco.net to uk.rec.motorcycles on Wed Jul 9 11:48:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.motorcycles

    Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote in news:oc8s6ktleqcco9el6ifrgs15eq13kp9bq8@ 4ax.com:

    On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 18:44:48 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

    On 08/07/2025 08:48, Champ wrote:
    <snip>


    It's an RST 'Brixton' [1] - one of these:
    https://www.rst-moto.com/products/rst-brixton-ce-mens-textile-jacket

    The material is actually waxed! And it looks good, and when I rode
    over the mountain the other day, through fog and the temp gauge
    indicating 11C, I was warm as toast. And the next time I do a summer
    foreign trip I can remove the lining and open the vents and hopefully
    not melt too much

    Is that a water proof lining?

    No, I don't think so, and for the life of me I can't imagine why you'd
    want the *lining* of a jacket to be waterproof.

    It's the outside that is waterproof. The lining is for warmth.


    many garments, such as mesh clothing have an internal waterproof layer that
    is removable e.g. the BMW Rallye trousers I bought at half price in an end
    of line sale. Crap idea mind, and if using these trousers on a tour, I
    prefer to fit overtrousers if it rains, as you would do with leathers.
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  • From Champ@neal@champ.org.uk to uk.rec.motorcycles on Wed Jul 9 13:17:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.motorcycles

    On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 09:35:46 -0000 (UTC), "CT" <me@christrollen.co.uk>
    wrote:

    although I really need a new mesh jacket, what with all these heatwaves!

    The forecast here for the weekend is "very hot"...by which it means
    25C

    You'll all be climate refugees soon, heading north to escape the
    pitiless sun...
    --
    Champ
    neal at champ dot org dot uk

    I don't know, but I been told
    You never slow down, you never grow old
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  • From wessie@willnotwork@tesco.net to uk.rec.motorcycles on Wed Jul 9 12:39:06 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.motorcycles

    Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote in news:qcns6kd1ip7scgbq0o5icuahqp3emu9upk@ 4ax.com:

    On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 09:35:46 -0000 (UTC), "CT" <me@christrollen.co.uk>
    wrote:

    although I really need a new mesh jacket, what with all these heatwaves!

    The forecast here for the weekend is "very hot"...by which it means
    25C

    You'll all be climate refugees soon, heading north to escape the
    pitiless sun...

    although one of the hottest & driest places has been Yorkshire. 33C
    predicted this weekend and they have been the first to enter drought and
    ban hosepipes.
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  • From YTC#1@ytc1@ytc1.co.uk to uk.rec.motorcycles on Wed Jul 9 22:18:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.motorcycles

    On 09/07/2025 09:01, Champ wrote:
    On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 18:44:48 +0100, YTC#1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

    On 08/07/2025 08:48, Champ wrote:
    <snip>


    It's an RST 'Brixton' [1] - one of these:
    https://www.rst-moto.com/products/rst-brixton-ce-mens-textile-jacket

    The material is actually waxed! And it looks good, and when I rode
    over the mountain the other day, through fog and the temp gauge
    indicating 11C, I was warm as toast. And the next time I do a summer
    foreign trip I can remove the lining and open the vents and hopefully
    not melt too much

    Is that a water proof lining?

    No, I don't think so, and for the life of me I can't imagine why you'd
    want the *lining* of a jacket to be waterproof.
    I don't, which is why I have never bought one.
    Jean was just never able to get a decent "womens" jacket to fit her/

    It's the outside that is waterproof. The lining is for warmth.
    Very useful things. But I usually just use my walking Rab these days.

    --
    Bruce Porter
    "The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
    There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
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  • From boots@news@millhouse-communications.co.uk to uk.rec.motorcycles on Thu Jul 10 08:51:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.motorcycles

    On 09/07/2025 13:17 Champ penned these words:
    On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 09:35:46 -0000 (UTC), "CT" <me@christrollen.co.uk>
    wrote:

    although I really need a new mesh jacket, what with all these heatwaves!

    The forecast here for the weekend is "very hot"...by which it means
    25C

    You'll all be climate refugees soon, heading north to escape the
    pitiless sun...

    Ha. I've just sweated like Gary Glitter at a kindergarten party moving my orphaned BMW to KL to transfer the title to my BiL to see if he can sell it. 360km with the temp gauge showing 35 and the bikes cooling fan ducted heated air
    at my legs.
    --
    Ian

    "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" outside
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