There are at least two different fabrics with which the MUSA shorts/ knickers/pants have been made. The year-old butternut/olive shorts and pants I have are made of thin wispy nylon a la Ex Officio Amphi pants. The grey/blue pants and olive shorts I have are much more substantial; different enough that I wear the grey/blue pants down to about 40 degrees before I switch to wool-under-butternut/olive (down to about 20 degrees). Below 20 it's wool-under-grey/blue; maybe a lot of wool if it's way below 20!
Grey/blue alone are good for rain down to 45-50, butternut/olive are really only good for 65+ rain. They're really different. In all of them, though, the crotch is that tough Taslan stuff, I think. The butternut/olive ones are billowy even on me (6', 250lb). The others are more normal. Billowy is fine for me, especially when it's 90+. No speed racer I! I'm sure they aren't the only reasonable clothes for cycling that exist. But I've been *very* happy riding in almost all MUSA/RBW almost all the time since I started biking as part of my commute. Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean On Nov 12, 11:47 pm, beth h <periwinkle...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I got a pair of the shorts some years ago, and I like them as summer > knockabout shorts AND as swim trunks (Sun damage requires I cover up > more than most swimsuits allow). Because I live in the rainy NW, I > never thought about buying the pants or knickers -- the fabric would > be too lightweight for most of my commuting, for three seasons of the > year. > Beth > > On Nov 11, 10:19 am, jim_OLP <j...@landoloons.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm considering them ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
