Here's a question for the crowd.

Last year I bought a Performance commuter jacket to be my windshell/raincoat on cool days, with the option to layer a fleece underneath for the cold ones. My gripe with it is that it's nylon, and doesn't breathe very well...at all. I also wonder a bit how long the waterproof coating on it is going to last.

I should have bought Gore-Tex, I suppose. So I've been shopping for some, and then I came upon a Bellwether jacket made with "Exo-grid", which sounds in theory very similar to Gore-Tex technology insofar as waterproofing goes.

Does anyone know anything about the Bellwether, or should I just assume that nothing beats Gore-Tex?

By the by, it's a rotten deal that Gore bike wear doesn't actually make their "Function" jacket out of Gore-Tex.