Originally Posted by
MNBikeguy
Unless it was an extreme downpour where water was coming in through the neck, my guess is you were experiencing your own sweat rather than incoming moisture.
This was an old jacket. I was sweaty, but I could tell the difference because the incoming water was cold and I felt it trickle in in weird places (like up in my back, close to shoulders). My guess is, the seams of the jacket are starting to give in. This jacket wasn't GoreTex, but one of the myriad of other breathable/waterproof layers available (DryMaxX, if I remember correctly).
Active is supposedly the best of the various GoreTex waterproof membranes right now in terms of breathability. I'll post my experiences in this thread. For the price I could easily buy two sets of a generic DryMaxX etc based shell, so I'm expecting a lot better performance from this. Significant increase in my average commuting speed wouldn't hurt either.
--J