Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Bicycling wears out rain pants quickly, the fabrics don't last long being sat on, and pedaling.
coating peel off , and laminated 3 layers de laminate and seam tapes come loose.
I wore out a couple pairs of Red Ledge rain pants after about one year each. The inner coating would wear out in the crotch area where there's friction with the saddle nose... then I would look like I'd wet my pants.
I've got about 3 years on the North Face ("HyVent 2.5L") pants with no wear on the linings. See the attached image of the <ahem> area in question; there's a little bit of the sealing tape starting to peel off, but that's it. I only wear these in the rain in the warm months, but any day the temp is below freezing during the winter. These were not inexpensive, but sometimes you really do get what you pay for!
Steve