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Which is the best winter cycling jacket? Help decide the road.cc People's Choice

Tell us your favourite winter outer layer

What's your favourite winter cycling jacket? Tell us what keeps you riding through the cold and wet in this week's People's Choice poll.

Keeping your core temperature up is one of the secrets of conquering the winter, along with protecting your hands and feet. To ward off the cold and wet you need a good jacket - but which one? As we discussed in our guide to winter jacket options, you've never had more choice.


You know the weather is bad then even the pros have reached for the rain gear (CC BY-SA 2.0 Richard Masoner/Flickr)

Do you go for a fully waterproof hard shell; tough it out with a windproof over warm layers; or wrap up in the latest high-tech soft shell?

What's your priority? Absolute waterproof performance, warmth, or round-town visibility? Tell us in the comments below.

Here's how it works:

  • Post a comment to nominate a product. Check it hasn't already been nominated. Add a link to the product wherever you can.
  • Like a comment to vote for that product. Remember to like your own comment if you're nominating something.
  • One comment per product. Any multiple comments will be deleted and their likes will not count towards a product's score. The first nomination will be the one that is counted.
  • One product per comment. Otherwise the voting doesn't make any sense.
  • Maximum 30 nominations per award. Once we hit 30 nominations we will close the nomination process.
  • All votes will be counted up until the closing date. Votes after this may appear but will not be counted.
  • We reserve the right to remove any comment at our sole discretion.
  • Closing date is 10am, Wednesday, September 16.

Over to you!

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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bendertherobot | 9 years ago
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Cold AND wet? Hmm. For me winter is about cold. Not necessarily wet. So I'll vote for the one that's best in cold and will do well if it becomes wet.

So,

RAPHA PRO TEAM jacket. (NOT the softshell one).

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paulrattew replied to bendertherobot | 9 years ago
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Rapha pro team jacket for me

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niceguysean | 9 years ago
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Got to say, love my Rapha rain Jacket: link is to new version, I have the old, but it's never let me down.
http://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/shop-/jackets/category/jackets

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bikeandy61 | 9 years ago
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But there is now.  103  41

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