FS: Carradice rain jacket

[Ted Durant]

For sale - Carradice rain jacket, size unknown but I'm 5' 6" 130lbs and it's too big for me. 23"  across under the armpits, 31" from the bottom of the collar to the bottom of the rear tail. Very good condition - I repaired a tear at the back of the collar, and it could stand to be re-waxed for ultimate water protection. $40 including shipping CONUS.

Ted Durant

Milwaukee WI USA

[Ted Durant]

Well that was quick.

You folks are fabulous.

Ted Durant

Milwaukee, WI USA

[Danny]

If the current buyer finds the jacket isn't a good fit, I'm interested!

-Danny

Madison, WI

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[Matthew P]

Yeah this thing looks awesome. Anyone else have one to let go? I didn't find any on a quick search online.
I just used my Carradice rain cape for the first time last week :) Rain on the way to work and on the way home! And multiple rains since!!
-Matthew
in one heck of a rain run in San Diego!!  (Kumeyaay & others land)

[Patrick Moore]

I’m the lucky winner who got the jacket; to say “excellent deal” is to deprecate my good fortune. It is worth more than that.

From Ted’s measurements I was a wee bit afraid that it would be too snug — cycling appropriately snug but not civilian appropriately snug; but it turned out to be just right: not too wide for wearing solo, but wide enough that it can accommodate a sweater or pullover or thickish vest underneath.

I’ll not use it for cycling; I’ve got several other modern synthetic jackets of various weights with various ventilation systems that are better for strenuous activity. But the Carradice Ventile anorak is just right for casual walks and man about town (SW US town) activities.

It is made with pit ventilation and a rear ventilation flap; I find pit zips and physical ventilation systems to work very well under varying degrees of physical effort and varying weather conditions.

The cloth is in very good condition. I am surprised at the quality of the materials and the shoddiness of the stitching, in places. Like the 1989 upper-level Falcon (well known Brit marque) road bike I bought in 1990: tout 531C, next-to-top Sante’ group, but sh*tt* machine-built (apparently) wheels with wildly uneven spoke tension, which I upgraded (Campy Omega Strada! 19 mm tires!) shortly after I bought it. And “Meh” paint with uncoated decals. But a nice bike.

While the jacket fits in the torso, the sleeves were comically too long, and I didn’t like the velcro cuffs, so I took it on a nice ride on my 1999 Joe Starck Riv Road Custom Fixie Gofast to Jean’s Alterations at 6600 Rio Grande Boulevard NW to have them shortened, have the velcro straps removed, and have the new cuffs bound in some sort of black material like that binding the hem. Jean — gray, stocky, 75 -- took the cigarette out of her mouth, spat on the floor, and growled, “No problem.” (Just kidding. But she has been tailoring for 52 years.)

I used a Carradice waxed cotton rain cape for a summer of commuting during our annual monsoon between end of June and somewhere in September, and it worked very well, only the material was far thicker and heavier than the very fine cotton of this jacket. In fact, it was too warm so I sold it on and switched to lighter nylon capes (Campmore and currently Jackson & Gibbons). But it was waterproof; recall the puddles forming between my arms as I rode in heavy rain, having to be decanted every few hundred yards; and the faint rainbow colors of the leaching wax in said puddles. 

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Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum

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