Winter/Spring Gloves
03-09-20, 01:03 PM
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Winter/Spring Gloves
Looking to buy gloves for 40F and warmer weather. My rides are usually about two hours. I don't want anything bulky (so I can grab food from my back pockets) and want to be able to use my phone while I'm riding (touch-screen compatible?). What are your fav winter/spring gloves? Thanks for the ideas.
03-09-20, 01:11 PM
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Merino glove liners.
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Castelli full finger Team Glove. No padding, just grippy. Perfect for the conditions you're describing.
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Rapha Classic Gloves. So nice that I wear them off the bike, too. They are expensive, but they also go on sale occasionally.
The only knock (besides price) is that they don't register as a touch on my phone's fingerprint reader, which acts as a home button on my phone.
The only knock (besides price) is that they don't register as a touch on my phone's fingerprint reader, which acts as a home button on my phone.
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Other than touch screen compatible, I've been satisfied with Bontrager RXL Thermal gloves for 4 years. Discontinued but still available online in some retailers.
Great cool weather gloves, and warmer with microfiber liners. I do have some liners with touch screen sensitive fingertips. But I never use my phone while riding so I don't really need that feature. If I did I'd consider modifying the Bontrager glove by snipping a finger slot, then sewing up the cut edges for reinforcement, maybe adding an overlap to block the wind.
My heavy weight insulated winter gloves have touch screen sensitive fingertips too, but that material wore out quickly.
Great cool weather gloves, and warmer with microfiber liners. I do have some liners with touch screen sensitive fingertips. But I never use my phone while riding so I don't really need that feature. If I did I'd consider modifying the Bontrager glove by snipping a finger slot, then sewing up the cut edges for reinforcement, maybe adding an overlap to block the wind.
My heavy weight insulated winter gloves have touch screen sensitive fingertips too, but that material wore out quickly.
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03-09-20, 11:14 PM
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dhb Aeron Lab All Winter Polartec Gloves - https://www.wiggle.com/dhb-aeron-lab...olartec-glove/
Thin, relatively warm, breathable, work with touch screens. Perfect somewhere around +4 to +8 C temperature (39 - 46 F) though in general good enough from 0 up to 12 C (32 to 54 F). I guess it is British "all winter" temperature range.
Definitely not for below freezing temperatures and at the upper temperature range they are definitely an overkill and too warm but acceptable as they are breathable: hands don't sweat much but feel really warm.
Thin, relatively warm, breathable, work with touch screens. Perfect somewhere around +4 to +8 C temperature (39 - 46 F) though in general good enough from 0 up to 12 C (32 to 54 F). I guess it is British "all winter" temperature range.
Definitely not for below freezing temperatures and at the upper temperature range they are definitely an overkill and too warm but acceptable as they are breathable: hands don't sweat much but feel really warm.
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Other than touch screen compatible, I've been satisfied with Bontrager RXL Thermal gloves for 4 years. Discontinued but still available online in some retailers.
Great cool weather gloves, and warmer with microfiber liners. I do have some liners with touch screen sensitive fingertips. But I never use my phone while riding so I don't really need that feature. If I did I'd consider modifying the Bontrager glove by snipping a finger slot, then sewing up the cut edges for reinforcement, maybe adding an overlap to block the wind.
My heavy weight insulated winter gloves have touch screen sensitive fingertips too, but that material wore out quickly.
Great cool weather gloves, and warmer with microfiber liners. I do have some liners with touch screen sensitive fingertips. But I never use my phone while riding so I don't really need that feature. If I did I'd consider modifying the Bontrager glove by snipping a finger slot, then sewing up the cut edges for reinforcement, maybe adding an overlap to block the wind.
My heavy weight insulated winter gloves have touch screen sensitive fingertips too, but that material wore out quickly.
dhb Aeron Lab All Winter Polartec Gloves - https://www.wiggle.com/dhb-aeron-lab...olartec-glove/
Thin, relatively warm, breathable, work with touch screens. Perfect somewhere around +4 to +8 C temperature (39 - 46 F) though in general good enough from 0 up to 12 C (32 to 54 F). I guess it is British "all winter" temperature range. Definitely not for below freezing temperatures and at the upper temperature range they are definitely an overkill and too warm but acceptable as they are breathable: hands don't sweat much but feel really warm.
Thin, relatively warm, breathable, work with touch screens. Perfect somewhere around +4 to +8 C temperature (39 - 46 F) though in general good enough from 0 up to 12 C (32 to 54 F). I guess it is British "all winter" temperature range.
Definitely not for below freezing temperatures and at the upper temperature range they are definitely an overkill and too warm but acceptable as they are breathable: hands don't sweat much but feel really warm.I'll probably grab a pair when they go on sale. It's kind of out of my price range but thx!
03-10-20, 08:43 AM
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03-14-20, 08:14 PM
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I ride in Minnesota and I’ll ride until ice forms on the roads (ground freezing). It’s really hard to get gloves right in cold weather. The best thing that I have done is invested in a glove system. The gloves system from Phew is the best thing I’ve found.
Shop ? Phew
Besides being tailorable to the conditions so well, having the windproof layer and a second windproof layer is the best way to keep your hands warm that I’ve found. These are the lightest weight, warmest gloves I’ve found.
Second best are Castelli’s gloves. I have a set of everything of theirs from warm to their “winter” gloves. They’re second best but a distant second.
A close tie with Phew is the Dissent glove system.
https://www.dissent133.com
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Besides being tailorable to the conditions so well, having the windproof layer and a second windproof layer is the best way to keep your hands warm that I’ve found. These are the lightest weight, warmest gloves I’ve found.
Second best are Castelli’s gloves. I have a set of everything of theirs from warm to their “winter” gloves. They’re second best but a distant second.
A close tie with Phew is the Dissent glove system.
https://www.dissent133.com
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Blank Diamond and Backcountry teamed up to make a glove called Skintrack, ostensibly for skiing uphill, but it would probably work for cycling too. Works for skiing at high output, which is more intense than cycling.
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Won’t be helpful for now; Check out the Castelli gloves. They have a bunch of gloves for that temperature range. End of season, they go on sale for cheap.
03-16-20, 10:10 AM
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Consider oversized gloves. That air spaces keeps you warm, compressed insulation and conductive cooling (from touching the wind shell) do not. After doing a lot of testing this winter, I found that oversized windproof gloves with liners (specifically BlackDiamond Gridtech for spacing/breathing) work WAY better than proper winter gloves - making them wearable bar mitts.
For 50F+ Gore windstopper unlined or densely knit (eg defeet).
For 50F+ Gore windstopper unlined or densely knit (eg defeet).
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I found out they are closed when I had hoped to buy trail shoes today. Glad I checked the website first and saved a trip.
