I'm reading the Book of John Roe, *Elliptic Operators, Topology and Asymptotic Methods* and got stuck at Lemma 2.27. i) How does this lemma show that a real vector bundle can be given by a pullback of direct sums of plane bundles? ii) Assuming i) is clear, is this equation $\Pi_f(h^*E) = \prod_j g(p_1(P_j))$ then true for suitable real 2-plane bundles $P_j$ in which $h^*$ splits as direct sum? iii) What happens in odd dimensions? Has it something to do with choosing $g(0)=1$? I appreciate some literature or concise explaination. :) EDIT: I've found a good reference [1]. Namely Proposition 11.2 together with Observation 11.8 gives a satisfying answer for me. [1] H. Blaine Lawson and Marie-Louise Michelsohn. Spin Geometry.