Had my Halvarsons prime for 18months now. Great fit, and very comfy.
But, I get a cold spot in the middle where the lining leaves a gap behind the zip, where it lacks full length Velcro on the outer flap, so it lets wind through.
And rain.
I have to wear a lightweight over jacket to stay dry in anything more than a shower.
As an update to this earlier post, the rather pathetic strips of velcro had lost most of there grip by last season so I dropped the jacket into Hideout one afternoon(I did prebook it)and Kate replaced them with a nice new continuous strip of velcro. I have to say it’s transformed the jacket. Not only is it so much warmer by being draft free, its also drier too. I’ve tried to feed this back to Halvarssons at both the NEC and to Mick Wynn, they’re technical rep, but it seems to just fall on deaf ears.
So I’d highly recommend anyone suffering similar drafts to get the velcro replaced asap. If and when I need a new one I’ll be insisting it’s done to start with.