Rimmer

What does having to ride enough have to do with experiencing what you call a real spill? I just noticed in your thread title you said "again". How many times have you crashed anyway? At least twice is already a given. Me thinks you’re a few peas short of a casserole. I’ve ridden for two and a half years commuting at least five days a week on busy roads and never have I spilled, and I don’t ever intend to. Since I don’t like a loss in dexterity, I’m now by default a so-called mister tough guy.

I'm not even anti-glove in the first place, but you appear to have a reading comprehension problem. So questioning a torn hole, having preference over not wearing gloves, and fearing fractures over scrapes are apparently all stupid. Mind elaborating?

My glove has a hole in it, but I never fell. This reminds me of people taking some product to seemingly clean their colon. Well, when it got time to digest they took a massive snake turd. When they saw that, they were convinced that whatever came out in the toilet was lurking inside them the whole time. It was a scam. Whatever they took just so happen to make the poop look like that. Lol, they were a bunch of gullible idiots and believed all the hype behind it.

No, it was concrete.

svtmike

I'll back you up. If you actually lose dexterity to cycling gloves, there is absolutely no way that you ever would be considered a tough guy.

hhnngg1

So, we have a tough guy who's never ever fallen, giving advice about falls, convinced he's right.

Furthermore, he's convinced that a small hole on his glove is the same as a tear that happened to appear after a good scrape on a spill which went right through the thick faux-leather part. And somehow he thinks it didn't do squat for saving my skin, and that hole really appeared by some other way. Right.

Sounds like we should listen to this winner. Really knows what he's talking about.

bsektzer

Folks,

Show a little respect, please. What we have here is a shoo-in for one form or another of the Darwin award.

Beaker

After reading this, I no longer have any recollection of what this thread is about, but this here is a colon-full of pure awesome.

DaveWC

It is unbelievable that a thread that extols the virtues of gloves for saving your hands in a fall meets opposition. By all means, don't wear gloves. No one cares. And the experiences of one person who believes that gloves prevented extensive damage need not change your mind. The colon diversion was really strange.

merlinextraligh

No one intends to fall, yet virtually everyone does eventually. Mechanical failure; Car, pedestrian, or other cyclist, pulls out in front of you; unseen road defect, gravel, debris, ice, etc.; momentary lack of attention. Whatever the cause, if you ride a bike long enough, you're going to crash.

When the inevitable happens, I prefer to be wearing gloves, but they're your hands and you can do as you like.

Besides they help dealing with snot and sweat.

giantcfr1

I've had two accidents in which I'm convinced my gloves reduced the injuries to my hand. Both times my padded gloves were ripped from the bitumen and my hands not. My hands were bruised though which took a few days to recover. I always ride wearing gloves be it road, mountain or commuting as I'm convinced they work for me.

Ultraslide

I've always worn full finger gloves on the trails but this past summer I saw a guy grind off the tip of his finger when crashing in a crit. The tip of his finger was ground down to the first knuckle. Now I wear full fingered gloves when I race on the road. Hoping I never need them ...

tagaproject6

This is excellent troll food! It will be spun in a few ways to support the troll's claims.

Ultraslide

I hear Trolls prefer the entire hand, but what do I know?

RT

I wear LF gloves every single ride

StanSeven

Come on, give the guy a break. He's trying to build credibility. The entire hand ground down is too much at first.

StanSeven

I saw something similar. The rider crashed on his face. His nose was ground off. The rest of his face was spared by the front of his helmet taking the impact. So this is another endorsement for helmets

Carbonfiberboy 

When I was riding motorbikes, it was common knowledge that you were inexperienced until you had gone down 6 times. I was experienced. On bicycles, if one doesn't race, riders seem to go down a little less often, probably because we wear much less protective clothing and so are more conservative. I think I've been down only 4 times on a bicycle with no damage other than a little blood. Most of my riding buddies have funny looking collarbones.

Commuting, it's not so much that riders make mistakes, it's that people in cars make mistakes.

RT

I agree to a mild extent, but as a hardcore commuter and having ridden at all hours, including between midnight and 5:00 a.m., believe the final onus lies with us as cyclists. I have seen too many commuters or cyclists assume motorists will do as they are supposed to, only to be wondering what the Hell happened while lying on their back in an ambulance. There is one thing we can do and that is to always, without fail, be aware of our surroundings so people in cars who make mistakes do not kill us. I have shaken my head and held my tongue on so many occasions and thank the almighty that I am still here.

/soapbox

surgeonstone

Yup, and to reach down (carefully), and rest my gloved hand on a tire if I have gone through flecks of glass I could not avoid.

somedood

One of the biggest reasons I wear gloves is because it helps me have a little bit better grip on the bars and they are fantastic to help me wipe sweat and snot rocket leftovers.

I am considering full fingered gloves for warm weather after a slow speed collision with another cyclist, though. Sometimes you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The half fingered gloves helped on the palm, but not fingertips.