Those Raphas are nice and I have scoped them out before.


That potato chip bag feel is off putting, but I could live with it somewhat. My old 3 layer Goretex are like that. The stretch fabric the XCR is on is really soft in hand, the jacket is soft, supple and quiet.


I bought a pair of Craft cycling pants for they had really nice features, like front and back mesh venting at the waist, and 2 Velcro tabs on each leg to tailor the leg shape for cycling.



Alas I returned them for they were the noisiest garment I have ever tried on. I'm not sure what Craft was thinking making something so noisy, seeing as in cycling your legs are the biggest motion items. The pants had a proprietary WB coating on the insides that really added to the noise. It was too bad as the idea and design of the pant was good.