Gore Bike Wear One Gore Thermium Jacket Men's

Riding a wave of windproof, water resistant, breathable race wear, Gore Bike Wear's Windstopper fabric recently revolutionized the cycling industry. With the new Thermium material at the heart of the One Gore Thermium Jacket, the venerable outdoor manufacturer may be poised to do it again. Thermium is basically a Windstopper membrane with the addition of built in insulation, a construction that effectively eliminates the need to pile on multiple base layers while still guaranteeing that your thermal layer stays dry in all but the harshest deluge. Several hundred general outdoor manufacturers have already added the membrane to their repertoire, but the appropriately named One Gore Thermium Jacket is the first instance we've seen of it in the cycling world. As with all quality kit, the details matter, and Thermium's details are impressive. It's a two layer, windproof, water repellent, breathable laminate with taped seams in short, pretty similar to insulated versions of Windstopper. The key difference is that Thermium's insulated layer is upgraded to 80g of Primaloft Gold, making it warmer and higher quality than the stuff used in standard Windstopper. One detail to note is that, unlike Gore Tex, Gore Thermium isn't waterproof it's just extremely water repellent. For cycling, this basically means that it's equal to any kind of weather you'd actually want to be on a bike in. It's also more than capable of handling weather that would make most of us pull over and seek shelter or call up the significant other for a ride home. If you happen to ride into a lake, though, you'll probably get wet. We should note that the One Gore Thermium's extreme wind, water, and cold protection mean that it's only applicable to, well, the most extreme conditions we'd want to ride in. The PrimaloftWindstopper combination packs a wallop that won't see much use outside of winter's depths however, if you're one of the brave souls who the local news profiles for commuting through blizza...