Elfin, sure, you can buy microfiber material, but then you have to join it. Buffs are a seamless tube, they're woven that way. A tube of cotton, like maybe a sleeve off an old shirt, won't stretch over your head, and joining microfiber do that it stretches is fraught with problems, like you've got to stitch it fully stretched otherwise the stitching will snap as soon as soon as you try to stretch it.
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Theres one buff for one Elfinsafety, if he wants it. As this is about converting a non belever. If some faker takes it first, then so be it and a thousand flats wished uppon there rear wheel this winter.......
Macca out
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we have had in 2010 and 2011 sponsorship from Buff for our marshalling team as do many other events. We are thus able to give one of these excellent pieces of kit to our marshals the first time they join us and help support grass roots XC racing.
This is what they think
And for the avoidance of doubt all the Buffs go to the marshals, I even bought the one recently for this winter. (no glory or money in grass roots race organising! )
Yes sponsorship for 2012 would be nice, but regardless they have supported us and for that we thank them.
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Bought a merino one for a trip to Africa. Wore it for a week solid on Kili, and then reasonably regularly for the next two weeks, including as a dust guard on safari. Three weeks without washing, and it didn't smell. Kept me nice and warm on the mountain, but wasn't too hot on the plains.
Yes, expensive, but like all good kit, worth it.Posted 5 months ago # -
I've got a couple of original microfibre buffs, and a four or five magazine freebies. The 'proper' ones definitely are nicer, fabric is definitely better quality, and i tink i get a ride or so more out of them before they start to hum, but I'm not sure if they are (assuming you budget £4 for mag purchase to obtain freebie one) a whole £7 nicer.
What i will say is there seems no difference between the ones offered by Oxford and Box (motorbike outfitters, I have three of those too) and the free one, so of you are after better quality than a free one, there is little point in going for the budget jobs unless you can have a feel/stretch of them in the shop: you may be paying for the same thing just diferent pattern.
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For really cold weather I have a semi fleece buff, it's fantastic. Been in temperatures around -28 (wind chill) and even though it was frozen on the outside, was keeping me warm around the neck area.
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Merino Buff FTW!!! I have an original and a merino and the merino one is brilliant. It keeps my noggin at the right temp on my early morning road commute. I paid £19.99 for mine from a bike shop.
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A few of us wear Buffs for work one bloke brought the 3 for a tenner copies and within the month he had an original Buff. Said the copies never kept their shape and weren't as warm.
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Elfinsafety sounds like a genuine person to me, hence why id help him out with a product.
See, that's a representative of a company puting their money where their mouth is, that is. I respect that. And if I'm anywhere near a Buff stand, then I will surely make myself known. And I am very grateful for the kind and gracious offer.
Oh and you can't mistake me, I am unique.
I like the product, think it's a good idea and one that works well, I'm just questioning the price is all. Twelve pounds ninety nine does strike me as somewhat expensive for such a thing. A Merino one at that price, might be more reasonable, considering that you can get Merino tops for just twenty pounds or so, and there's a lot more Merino in a top.
I would think that five pounds ninety nine or so for a standard Buff would be about 'right'. This is based on my objective evaluation of all sorts of clothing products over many years.
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xterramac, are you the guy off the buff demo video with the porno moustache ? I have seen the buffera stand at trade shows and they always have the best stand
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xterramac, what's your company?
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