Winter gloves

lobster mitts are nice and all, but you can't shift gears with them.

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= win

i think you ride in pretty benign winter conditions, or for not very long periods of time. Which is totally ok. I'm not trying to act tough. I just know where the weaknesses lie in my situation. and so i address them. wet hands are cold hands. cold hands are miserable hands. miserable hands means i don't ride. Same with feet.

I deal with snow every day from november until march. literally every single day. The sky closes over us like the lid to a white box and doesn't open until april. We don't see sun. and it's COLD. not cold like -5C... cold like -25C. Add to that all the salt they drop on the roads and it's actually wet. Wet and way below freezing.

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  It should be -30 or something where I live, but the gulf stream keeps things a bit milder.
  Also worth mentioning that the salted snow sticks like fecking wallpaper paste.