so i am no longer riding my GS but i still want to know about some rain gear reasonable price but good gear?

I like my 1-piece Tourmaster suit, like this one:

http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/1/1/41/1443/ITEM/Tour-Master-One-Piece-Rainsuit.aspx

It is meant to fit over your standard riding gear.  So, it's fairly..  Umm... big.  It will billow a little bit, but fitting the straps right will fix most of that.  Not fun for long trips on the interstate, but it's fine at 55mph.

I've ridden with it in rain all day and it doesn't leak.  Although, over time, any rain suit will begin to leak a little around your butt for the same reason you don't want to touch the wall of a tent in a rainstorm.   

I suggest avoiding PVC suits, they don't breathe AT ALL!  Very hot too.

Pretty sweet. What gloves do you wear? I typically wear leather Alpine Stars gloves, but i have a feeling they wouldn't be very happy with rain... Not like it rains much here in LA.... I've known more than one person around here who's owned a car with no roof who just tosses a tarp over it on the couple of days a year it rains and just doesn't go anywhere for the day...

Depends on the weather, Fred.  In the summer I wear Alpine Stars GP Plus gloves.  In the winter, I wear Gerbing's heated gloves.  I've worn both in the rain with no problems.  The A*'s gloves far more than the heated gloves.

Takes a while for them to dry out though.  It helps if you make an effort to use leather conditioner on a regular basis.

In the UK, "winter riding gear" has much the same properties as "all season gear". I always ride in waterproof textile / leather trousers and jacket. They'll admit a little water into the crotch eventually, but nothing dramatic.

Reasonable is in the eye of the beholder, here.

After riding 4 hours in the rain and having every seam on my cheap rainsuit fail, to the point that my leathers were soaked and weighed about 50 lbs, and my leg was not responding to the command to stick itself out and catch the bike when I dragged into a Dunkin for some coffee and a thaw, I thought the $750 (at the time) for an Aerostich one-piece Roadcrafter was reasonable.

...It was $100 more than I'd paid for the bike I was riding.

On that basis, they are now cheaper, since I paid $1000 for the GS and they sell for something like $936 or so. Made in USA, gore-tex throughout, crash and rain protection in one package, more pockets than you know what to do with. Get it in high-vis yellow (not available in the olden days).