DC stores selling rain gear

[ColumbiaHeights]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a store in DC that sells rain pants and jacket suitable for riding in 45 to 70 degree weather? I’m looking to spend no more than $40 each. Thanks.

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[Steve]

I’d wait for an REI or Hudson Trail to have a sale of some kind. IMO, the 45+ degree range can usually be handled with just some normal layering, and so all I need is a waterproof shell with normally layered base. Below that, I tend to want pretty thick wind/water proof materials.

[sjclaeys]

REI is having its 20% off sale for members now. I used it last weekend to get a pair of rain pants but even with the discount it was more than you are looking to spend. They had a less expensive pair, but they did not seem durable. Both were REI’s Novara brand.

[Kolohe]

Man, I wish I still had the contact info of the German exchange officer I worked with back when I was in the military. His name was Dolph; kind of a prickly fellow really, very often curt and dismissive. It didn’t help that we would kid Dolph about being a Communist – and not in an ‘Obama is a sekrit socialist’ kinda way, but the man grew up in East Germany, and so, naturally was enrolled in the Youth Communist League and all that malarky.

But he would have been super helpful for this inquiry, because we always said, “Rude Dolph the Red knows rain gear”

[PotomacCyclist]

@Kolohe 66408 wrote:

Man, I wish I still had the contact info of the German exchange officer I worked with back when I was in the military. His name was Dolph; kind of a prickly fellow really, very often curt and dismissive. It didn’t help that we would kid Dolph about being a Communist – and not in an ‘Obama is a sekrit socialist’ kinda way, but the man grew up in East Germany, and so, naturally was enrolled in the Youth Communist League and all that malarky.

But he would have been super helpful for this inquiry, because we always said, “Rude Dolph the Red knows rain gear”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/myword/

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Kolohe 66408 wrote:

Man, I wish I still had the contact info of the German exchange officer I worked with back when I was in the military. His name was Dolph; kind of a prickly fellow really, very often curt and dismissive. It didn’t help that we would kid Dolph about being a Communist – and not in an ‘Obama is a sekrit socialist’ kinda way, but the man grew up in East Germany, and so, naturally was enrolled in the Youth Communist League and all that malarky.

But he would have been super helpful for this inquiry, because we always said, “Rude Dolph the Red knows rain gear”

**slow clap**

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