Winter gloves

9 mile ride? you? pah, you have to go to court or something?

Can someone give me the warmest damn glove around?
I have crap, crap circulation and HATE being cold more than anything else in the world.

I want a glove that's designed for night time down hilling in the Antarctic. I want gloves with a built in Aga and mug of hot choc.
I've worn my winter motorcycle gortex and leather gauntlets, with silk liners, and I still can barely write or grip when I get off my bike, even after only a few miles commute.
Any experience with gloves that were just uncomfortably warm even after fisting a glacier? Those are the ones I need.
cheerz.

Perhaps try some motorbike shops Morgan? I'm guessing you'll need some serious insulation to keep out the cold at 80mph

Can someone give me the warmest damn glove around?
I have crap, crap circulation and HATE being cold more than anything else in the world.

I want a glove that's designed for night time down hilling in the Antarctic. I want gloves with a built in Aga and mug of hot choc.
I've worn my winter motorcycle gortex and leather gauntlets, with silk liners, and I still can barely write or grip when I get off my bike, even after only a few miles commute.
Any experience with gloves that were just uncomfortably warm even after fisting a glacier? Those are the ones I need.
cheerz.

http://www.icebike.org/Clothing/handprotection.htm

Pearl Izumi lobster gloves. I've a pair I bought in Switzerland over ten years ago and I can only where them when the temperature is below freezing otherwise my hands get too hot.

P.S. I fisted a glacier with them once. My hands were toasty.

Any feedback on these ones? I was looking at these yesterday. Nice fit. Have you had them long?

I've had them for about a year I think. They were pretty stiff to start with, but have worn in nice and hand-shaped now. Temperature-wise they're perfect as an autumn glove, but for bitter winter days ideally you would need a liner glove. I'd buy them again.

I'm now carrying around 3 pairs of gloves plus aforementioned silk glove liners to be ready for any eventuality.

merino glove liners are nice but they get wrecked really easily .. word of warning..

Thanks for the response. What kind of grips you using with them?

Umm, bar tape, I mostly ride a geared bike

Perhaps try some motorbike shops Morgan? I'm guessing you'll need some serious insulation to keep out the cold at 80mph

This is for my bicycle! Not my motorbike! I still get worryingly cold

@Tommy - I had a heated pair of them for my motorbike a few years ago, and even plus gloves I wasn't happy. Either I need to re-define how cold I expect to be cycling or I need to see a doctor.

EDIT - From the website Tommy linked in.

"The Idea behind three fingers [lobster gloves] is that each finger has a mate to keep it warm, and there is less exposed surface. Your thumb must fend for itself.

AWHHHH POOR THUMBSY!

Specific question from a giant handed person...
I'm going to get me some winter gloves as my years old fox gloves have holes in, but I have super-massive hands. Anyone else on the forum with this affliction fancy telling me what gloves they're using so I can narrow down my choices?

As a reference... wrist to fingertip: 22.5cm. Middle finger knuckle to tip: 12.5cm

specialized has a pretty in depth sizing chart on their site for the radiant. if that helps

This is for my bicycle! Not my motorbike! I still get worryingly cold

@Tommy - I had a heated pair of them for my motorbike a few years ago, and even plus gloves I wasn't happy. Either I need to re-define how cold I expect to be cycling or I need to see a doctor.

Wow! With hand s that cold I hope you are not a Doctor.

Can someone give me the warmest damn glove around?
I have crap, crap circulation and HATE being cold more than anything else in the world.

I want a glove that's designed for night time down hilling in the Antarctic. I want gloves with a built in Aga and mug of hot choc.
I've worn my winter motorcycle gortex and leather gauntlets, with silk liners, and I still can barely write or grip when I get off my bike, even after only a few miles commute.
Any experience with gloves that were just uncomfortably warm even after fisting a glacier? Those are the ones I need.
cheerz.

i don't know what it is, but it's going to be a lobster mit, or a mitten (warmer) if you're riding brakeless.

As i mentioned earlier, Hestra makes the best gloves on the planet, but not designed for biking. They are designed for mountains.

My Radiants have been working well in this weather (5 degrees C), but i think they are going to need a silk liner when it dips into negative digits.

If specialized makes a lobster mit, using the same materials that the Radiant is constructed from, i'd place money on those being pretty toasty, especially with a thin glove liner.

Try a mountaineering shop like Blacks, or Ellis Brigham, mountaineers depend on their hands to keep them alive, you've got to be sure they'll have proper kit.

As a matter of totally unrelated fact, a firm called Moser make the best ice axes.

@mechamorgan
try putting on nitrile/latex gloves on underneath your actual gloves.
I find it keeps your hands warm but, most importantly, nice and supple when you take them off.

Mech: you might be the same as me. I have terrible circulation; my hands and feet go completely numb at the slightest provocation, and then take a long time to get the blood back in. I was diagnosed with Reynaud's Syndrome - it's a problem with capilliaries in your extremeties - something to do with vascular contractions. If your hands go pale yellow when cold, and completely insensible, you might have it too.

^those pearl izumi's . i like 'em. gave 'em to 'er indoors, with silk glove liners, autumn through winter riding perfection.

@mechamorgen.
When the mercury seriously falls here, I reach for my Endura Lobster Tundra gloves. They consistof a inner liner glove with indiviual fingers, and a lobster claw style outer. They are very waterproof, very warm, and have good reflective detailing. I'm still using my standard full finger gloves at the moment (currently about 0 DegC), as I personally find the Tundras too warm untill winter really kicks in. Looks like they have been discontinued so you may need to look around.

http://www.keswickbikes.co.uk/acatalog/Tundra_Lobster.html#a184

Review here:
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/clothing/gloves/product/lobster-gloves-28355

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=41988

I hate gloves with (insert correct work for 'elastic wrist cover'). these are great.

i just got bog standard windproof(-ish) Altura gloves. £11-something off wiggle. they do the job ok.

i just got bog standard windproof(-ish) Altura gloves. £11-something off wiggle. they do the job ok.

I have a pair of altura which I hate. I use them under my snowboard gloves

Just picked these up in the Cycle Surgery sale for £35 as I was fed up of cold hands even with supposed winter gloves on:

Mine are black all over which look much nicer. You can also get lobster versions but I don't want to look like Dr Zeudberger and I reckon these will be warm enough.

Had a ride with them this lunchtime and they are very very warm. The cyclone's are definitely not warm enough for very cold days, too thin. Unless you have asbestos fingers...

Fox, are the ones in your picture Cyclones or not?

Whatever gloves I had on yesterday, they are not warm enough.. I was going to hunt for some inners or maybe thicker/more windproof gloves.