Apologies Mark ..... I must have missed the bit were you said 'must be less than £200'
Nope, seems the bit you missed was where I asked about jacket construction, and not "what jacket do you recommend?" (plenty of those threads I imagine...
) I do appreciate all responses - the more opinions we heed, the wiser we can potentially become. I mean to cause no friction here. 
Which, before I got side tracked and confused was what I did in my first post
Andres
PS I did also warn you.....................
Indeed.
To the OP .... (weird user name that I can't remember .. !!)
The Klim lattitude jacket is just a shell, it's the bonded goretex stuff so water just beads off it and it can't soak in. I particularly like this jacket over the badlands, because I get to choose what I wear underneath. In the summer I may wear just a T-shirt (probably not ideal protection because the jacket is now quite loose fitting and I guess if i binned it there's a good chance that elbow, shoulder pads etc might not sit quite where they should). In the winter I can fit base layers, heated Keiss jackets etc underneath it. Spring / Autumn i can mix and match what I want.
Having tried both systems, for me my Klim beats the BM Rally jacket hands down for body heat control, not soaking up water and flexibility of what to wear underneath.
Inneresting. That fiasco with taking days for the outer shell layer of a three (separate) layer jacket to dry is just ridiculous. I'm pretty sure I'll prefer the bonded shell type jacket.
Pah - what sort of motorcyclist are you? Get it read....
By the way, it has very little to do with Zen and perhaps even less to do with motorcycling.
And it can be a tough read, but certainly worth it, IMO.
Well I couldn't have done it without you guys. I'd like to thank my manager, my mammy...
Because most GS riders are fashion followers ..... !! (Tour x lid, BM suit, fog lights on, ally panniers with fire extinguisher .... etc etc
Shite! Better get back to my Excel spreadsheet...
The irony - time was when a GS rider was the opposite of a follower of fashion...
Is there an element of the emperor's new clothes with some of this? If everyone else likes it, it must be good and I'd better like it too?
Thanks for all the responses folks.
I'm a newbie to the forum, but in the real world I'm 47 with a fair share of life under my belt, and enough experience with bikes & gear to know what I like and don't like.
Is Gore-Tex Pro the only name in town when it comes to bonded / laminated shell fabrics (that actually do what they're supposed to)? I have to say, my Rab eVent 3-layer (bonded / laminated) hiking gear is genuinely spectacular for even the heaviest of driving rain, and I never get sweaty to the point where I get damp inside, even when working hard on hills. The jacket's venting features, along with fit-for-purpose wicking layers obviously play a part here too. All advice I was getting at the time of purchase was to choose a Gore-Tex product. One shop bucked the trend, and I chose his recommendation (eVent), and I'm glad I did.
There are some bike clothing manufacturers out there that employ their own equivalent to Gore-Tex Pro shell fabric, whether proprietary or third-party. I'd be interested to learn how they perform. Not just from a price aspect, but cos I'm just like that - IMO, Gore-Tex = iPod: no doubt that it does perform, but there are alternatives.
), if caught out before you can put on your waterproof outer shell.
