I could have gone Small on the upper body, but I really wanted the leg length of the Medium. At 5’11”, 150lb with a 34” inseam (very competitive cyclist and distance runner, for a mental image), I use all the adjustment on my size M suit. The waist and elbows have Velcro straps for cinching the suit snug in those critical areas. Every now and then the leg Velcro will stick together while the suit is hanging and my foot gets stuck going in, but it’s just a matter of reaching down and yanking the leg open. It's hardly slower than just a jacket, and hugely faster than a pants/jacket combo. I have one traffic light and one block of city traffic to get out of town, and then there’s literally not even a single stop sign all the way home for me to sit in the heat and bake. But on average, I’m on those shaded roads doing 60-70mph, which means lots of cool air moving over the suit. There’s a little dirt (a lot, when I have the time to take the long way home), and I’ve done a fair bit of superslab as well. My normal ride is my commute: 25+ miles of mostly paved, tree-lined two-lane with almost nil traffic, and 40-55mph speed limits that I grossly exceed. The WRR is also a small-displacement water-cooled bike that doesn’t pump out much heat. On a ‘Wing or dresser, you’ll be moving a lot less air in and around the suit. Riding in completely clean air on the WRR means that venting is incredibly effective, and also that I rely on my suit 100% for waterproofness and wind protection. I ride a WR250R most of the time, although I put a decent number of miles on this suit on a GSX-R 600, Versys 650, and CRF250L. If your situation is much different, you might need to adjust expectations. So far, so good.īear in mind that I ride in somewhat unusual conditions. I've ridden 10,000 miles, in temps from 20☏ to 100☏, in sun and in rain, and I've been down a few times. I’m not really sure what a Roadcrafter could do better than this, and at over 2x the cost I’m not willing to find out. I’m sure the ‘Stich stuff is great and all, but this Olympia suit is only $450 and does everything I ask.
There's some discussion on this in other threads, most notably the one where I picked out this suit.
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