Apparel - Outerwear

It could be.a real asset having Patagonia enter the mountain bike sphere, but these excellent pants may not be ready for prime time...

For some people the best rain jacket may not be the one that puts the highest priority on keeping water out...

Gear from Fox for staying comfortable and motivated to ride through the cold, wet months.

Royal's Race pants combine four-way stretch materials and two decades of DH pant experience to create something that is truly pedalable both up and down technical trails.

A look at Race Face Ruxton shorts and pants - Trevor likes them both but wants to wear the pants every ride...

Rationalizing a lot of jackets is quite easy when you live in Vancouver - because we get every type of rain in every season...

These are pants made for nasty weather, to keep the cold and wet at bay and keep your performing like its mid-summer...

"Like a frat boy hitting the ground after his first kegger. It was kind of shocking..."

With inexpensive jackets the dance of waterproofing, breathability and durability often becomes more mosh pit than tango...

Long pants in wet weather were a thing early in the freeride era, but materials and design hadn't yet caught up to mountain bikers' needs...

Your purchase of this jacket will support IMBA (for better or for worse) but this feature heavy garment does much more than that...

There is nothing worse than a soggy and cold chamois - but there is more to wet weather shorts than waterproofing...

It may be summer in the northern hemisphere but in the mountains the rain can turn nasty any time of year...

"Having your junk marinating in muddy water for three hours is nobody’s idea of a party - and I didn't even know how much I hated it..."

Bontrager's Lithos Stormshell is versatile enough for other wet winter activities and stylish enough to wear off the bike...

The bar has been raised on technical outerwear for riders.

“It’s the season of shorter days, crappier weather, and nanaimo bars. When the internet’s anonymous tough guys become twice as douchey…”

The enjoyment factor of a winter ride can go from narcotic to nonexistent very quickly if you are cold and wet.

A form-fitting top layer for when the weather turns nasty…

A bit more room in the fit to comfortably accommodate a mid-layer, but rarely has to be worn with more than a base layer…

“The best compliment I could bestow on the Chute was to refer to it as a mountain biker’s LBD…”

Good clothing helps keep me sane and my riding stoke smoldering when the days turn nasty, brutish and short…

“I’ve been thinking about relative worth while testing a rather expensive jacket designed for mountain biking…”

Tried and tested soft goods that continue to deliver…