Glove suggestions

[PA Dave]

In a pinch when you lack gauntlets, cut the toes off a pair of thick socks and bunch them up on your wrists like '80s style leg warmers. That spared me more than once back in my poor, broke college days.

[herbcoop]

The first pair I got in Feb. last year were from leather up a Lined leather type gauntlet gloves. My fingers got cold and numb at times. I now use a army surplus mitten type that work a lot better and the sleeve part of the glove acts like a gauntlet style.

[tgelphman]

i happen to be in the local cycle gear shop over the weekend and saw they had the inside liners for $10. I bought two pair. They seemed to help quite a bit on my ride saturday in high 40 degree weather (that is considered freezing in california ).

[torontoshadow]

Costco ski gloves @ $19.99 CAN are good enough for Toronto weather!

[rjtmac]

Originally Posted by Bro Eddie

You can always go with heated gloves. I use Gerbing's. They cost a little, but are nice and toasty.

Have tried several gloves ( brands, materials, inexpensive heated gloves [cheap], ski gloves, heavy work ) and liners. Nothing has come anywhere close to the Gerbing Hybrids I now use.

Pricey yes, worth it yes. Haven't been on a ride yet [ in temps below 32° ] that I have felt the cold.

[brewman]

If you do something (faring or hand deflectors) to block the wind on your hands you will be well on your way to solve the cold finger problems. That plus heated grips and a "regular" pair of Tourmaster Winter Elite II gloves does the trick for me, and the heated grips are really more optional for me since adding the hand deflectors.

[rb608]

Originally Posted by shadowmaker07

I bought my bike in January of 08 and a supposedly warm to x amount of degrees pair of past the wrist gloves. Pffft. Waste of money. Still haven't found the answer to frozen hands or feet.

(I'm still preaching about this.). The answer to frozen hands is Polar Hands or one of the copies (Hippo Hands, etc.). Riding with your hands protected inside of these handlebar gloves is amazingly comfortable. You still need real gloves, but I ride an almost 1 hour commute in temps down to the low teens in the worst of winter. No problem. Find some & buy them. You'll thank me.

[rjtmac]

Originally Posted by rb608

(I'm still preaching about this.). The answer to frozen hands is Polar Hands or one of the copies (Hippo Hands, etc.). Riding with your hands protected inside of these handlebar gloves is amazingly comfortable. You still need real gloves, but I ride an almost 1 hour commute in temps down to the low teens in the worst of winter. No problem. Find some & buy them. You'll thank me.

That or just wrap a blanket around your handlebars ....

I was on a bike with Hippo's installed. Didn't ride it, just got on and stuck my hands in. Seemed very unnatural and I surely didn't like having line of site to my controls obscured. Working my hands inside an environment where my sense of feel was further blocked by the gloves I would be wearing would just not be a comfortable thing for me to deal with. I wouldn't feel safe.

50 bucks for the Hippo's or Polars and 50 bucks for gloves and your a 1/3 of the way to getting a pair of really good heated gloves.

I also just think they look kinda dorky ..... well not kinda, really dorky ... JMHO

[GadgetBandit]

Wired up my new Gerbings E3 gloves and headed out this morning. It was 29 and I rode the interstate for 2 hours. Absolutely amazing!! The gloves are light, comfortable and toasty warm. I love that the fingers are wired, top and bottom.

GadgetBandit

[wallasan10]

A question for you who have the heated gloves. How do you get power to them? You need to run wires from the bikes battery to the gloves. Do you run the wires down the inside of the sleeves of your jacket? If so do you install the wires permanently or run them every time you dress for a ride? I’m guessing that the best way would be to permanently wire the riding jacket with a jack at the waist and a jack at each cuff? I ride every day so my jacket has to go on and off a lot. It would be different if I only rode on weekends, I can’t afford something that takes a lot of time because I have to put my gear on and take my gear off twice a day at least.