Paramo Velez Adventure Light Smock – longer term review
OK, a short re-visit to the Paramo. In short, great. As I mentioned before, I’d have the arms slightly longer, but there’s not much in it & with the wrist tabs done up everything’s comfortable & stays put<./p>
The big question; ‘has it stayed waterproof?’ – yes. And Paramo are one of the very few that always reproof properly when they need it. Good on & off the bike & seems much more resistant to dirt than most fabrics. Got splattered with Dalby mud the other day, the sort you’d think might not even come out in the washing machine, and it just didn’t soak in.
If you really don’t get on with smock designs, unfortunately they don’t have much else that works for biking. [edit] Now they do… I wasn’t 100% convinced that it would be as good all round as the eVent it replaced, I went for it because I wanted long life (from the smock, not immortality..!) Now I’ve used it for a few months it all makes good sense.
Another plus for the ’10 version is the choice of a few more colours.
