Cold Hands - What Gloves?

Well I have to admit my hands were cold this morning for the first time ever on the bike, even though I rode through winter last year, so I must just be getting old.

Anyway looks like I am finally going to have to give in and buy a pair of proper gloves (I've been using winter cycling ones), I have seen this pair:

Alpine Stars ST-1 Drystar Gloves - £19.99 - Anyone got them?

Are they any good?

I normally look at the RIDE triangle stuff. They're normally good value and work well too. I have the Spada(cant remember the name just now) gloves that came second in the last test. Well worth the £40 it cost me and they keep your hands dry and toasty!

I've got the Alpinestars jet road goretex gloves they're a bit pricey at around £80 but they are fantastic. Also I have heard good things about the Oxford Bone Dry gloves.

Morning,

I think it's quite difficult to say whether a glove will keep your hands warm as there are so many variables to people's rides. On a given morning, someone going 100mph over the M62 (high motorway) will get colder hands than someone pootling across town!

However, to give my opinion, I have recently bought some Alpinestars Tech Road Goretex gloves, which are really nice and comfortable, very well made, nice feel for control, fully waterproof and goretex lined which 'should' keep my hands warm. But they don't. My commute to work this morning was 40 miles down the M6 at 'cold inducing' speeds ! So by the time I got to work my hands were pretty chilly. My fingers weren't numb, just cold so I guess that's not too bad. I used to have heated grips on my SV and wore summer gloves all round and I think I will get some fitted to my GSXR now as I would rather have heted grips than wear gloves any thicker than the A*'s.

If you usually use quite light gloves I would recommend the A*'s for everything except ultimate warmth. Pricey though at nearly 100 notes!

Cheers,
Matt

I hate wearing winter gloves as i think you lose a certain amount of feel for the bike. I try to put off the inevitable a long as possible.

Thats why I ride wearing summer gloves and oxford hot grips. Most of the journey they're nice and toasty, only the longer run on the A2 do they get a little chilly.

That is why I haven't so far bought proper motorbike gloves yet as I agree about losing a bit of feeling which, as I have only been driving a year, is still really important to me.

I have some richa gloves, which have kept my hands warm enough to retain feeling for braking and clutch, but they are not too bulky. Switching from summer gloves to these "winter" gloves, there is a tiny differance but nothing that makes you think "crap!"

Matt

bmw all weather ones are the best ever-though at 110£ a pair arent cheap (i use them in sever weather as ride all year round)

other wise hein gericke classic gloves or the best hein gericke python

First ever pair of gloves ... Scott Leathers (winter) gloves ... feel like boxing gloves, but keep your hands relatively warm (at anything above about 3 degrees), however didn't keep my hands DRY, so ...

When temperature dropped, added some "Cold Killers" inner gloves - which altho they keep my hands a bit warmer, gave me even LESS feel thru the bars, and still didn't stop me from getting my hands wet so ...

Second "proper" pair of gloves ... Wolf Racing Winter gloves (from here: http://www.bikersport.com/acatalog/Wolf_Gloves.html ). These are really good ... and have kept my hands relatively warm (worn all thru last winter), and have kept my hands dry in all but the most persistant of rain. IOW, if it's really persisting it down, I get wet hands. However, because of their relative "lightness" they don't take several days to dry out (and there's a reason for carrying a spare pair )

Oh and for summer ... a pair of these:
http://www.bikersport.com/acatalog/RST_Gloves.html (in black), and I'm still using these on the commute home ... mornings are a bit chilly for them now tho

I'd really like a pair of 100% FULLY WATERPROOF gloves ... the sort that you can wear in torrential downpours and still have dry hands.

Pete

Originally Posted by Pedro68

I'd really like a pair of 100% FULLY WATERPROOF gloves ... the sort that you can wear in torrential downpours and still have dry hands.

Pete

hein gericke python gloves!