Winter gloves

Buffalo pile and pertex mitts and others - all good, ignore cycling specific - gloves is gloves

http://www.needlesports.com/acatalog/Mail_Order_Hands_107.html

Dachstein mitts - it's what the Sheep would wear, if they weren't.....you know........covered in wool

http://www.joe-brown.com/outdoor-equipment/winter-mountaineering/hats-and-gloves/dachstein-mitts-2.html

Followed the link...it said...'keeps you warm....can't do anyhting that requires dexterity'.....ummmm

Decathlon silk glove liners for £5 plus any glove/mitt combo you fancy on top.

Followed the link...it said...'keeps you warm....can't do anyhting that requires dexterity'.....ummmm

Yeah I saw that but I blocked it out......I just want to believe in wool

and as for Hestra, their service is tops.

I lost a glove once and emailed them hoping to pay for just one glove. To my surprise, they sent me a cosmetically irregular glove for only the cost of shipping. and they sent stickers.

really remarkable company.

yeah surgical gloves are too thin.

leon, try washing up/cleaning gloves instead.

^ another fact. good advice.

My uncle's name was Redman....Dave Redman to be precise!!!

I bet you don't have to wear gloves when meeting your uncle..... with our mog, I had to wear winter gloves to stroke him for the first few years, as he was (& still is) an aggressive bastud..... bless

and as for Hestra, their service is tops.

I lost a glove once and emailed them hoping to pay for just one glove. To my surprise, they sent me a cosmetically irregular glove for only the cost of shipping. and they sent stickers.

really remarkable company.

Out of my price range...well out in fact.....probably buying an indoor velodrome might be cheaper.

I bet you don't have to wear gloves when meeting your uncle..... with our mog, I had to wear winter gloves to stroke him for the first few years, as he was (& still is) an aggressive bastud..... bless

No and yes.....no because he is dead and yes because he is dead!......I have had nasty mogs.....real basket cases.....one chap.....after [a] being beaten up by the local toms and [b] a strategic snip...calmed him down...still growled but became a 'nicer' mog......perhaps it did not help his street cred that he was a fluffy white mog...and he was called Fluffooo.....usually ooooo!....His mate...little Cat [female] was a pyscho mog and had to get her re-homed....attacked everything on 2 or 4 legs.....including wooden chairs!

So either PI Lobster gloves or Specialized Radiant [not it seems Radiator...at least not in the UK].....with silk inners from Decathlon....what about Sealskinz merino liners?.....Can one wear liners/inners....or washing up gloves with Lobster gloves.

Then again which washing up gloves.....Marigold?...Tescos?

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.
  

Theres nothing like salted slushy snow. You'd think nothing can be that cold and wet at the same time. And yes. It sticks.

Yes it's the Radiant. Not Radiator. Sorry. Good gloves. Couple of reviews called into question their waterproofness, but I'm not worried. Seems good to me.

BBB gloves any good?

Very light and thin. Palm covered in grippy rubber stuff. Long-ish tight cuffs. Very fine fleece interior. Simple graphics. Good enough for a half hour ride in London.

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If you don't want the lobster type gloves then I've had a pair of SealSkinz gloves for the past 3 winters that are excellent. I was reluctant at first given my bad experience with their waterproof socks (that fill up with water when cycling) but a friend who runs a bike shop was so insistent that they were very warm that I bought some. He was right.

I've had exactly the opposite experience; socks brilliant, gloves useless. Or useless until I wore a thin cotton liner glove with them. Was talking to Emilia yesterday who'd been wearing SealSkinz socks for the first time; a wet day and she was raving about how warm and dry her feet were. Sealskinz socks are popular with couriers and they tend to go with what works. Water can run down your leg in to them when the cuffs stretch a bit but wearing tights over the top stops this. But even if it does they keep the wind out so well that I've still had wet but warm feet.
My hands rarely get cold, usually get through winter with just cotton gloves or thin wool gloves (the Brikos are good) over my mitts. Have a pair of Cannondale branded Lobster gloves which are almost always too hot and are very cumbersome.

Don't really need gloves that much.
Hands usually keep decently warm.

But I ordered these anyway for a more confortable ride during those long distances.

bought two pairs of ridiculously cheap fleece gloves from primark. It was £2 for 2 pairs.

They have been doing a great job for me cycling in the cold, and i think with a pair of inners from decathlon these will be perfect for any weather condition this winter throws at me during my winter commute.

I've had exactly the opposite experience; socks brilliant, gloves useless. Or useless until I wore a thin cotton liner glove with them. Was talking to Emilia yesterday who'd been wearing SealSkinz socks for the first time; a wet day and she was raving about how warm and dry her feet were. Sealskinz socks are popular with couriers and they tend to go with what works. Water can run down your leg in to them when the cuffs stretch a bit but wearing tights over the top stops this. But even if it does they keep the wind out so well that I've still had wet but warm feet.
My hands rarely get cold, usually get through winter with just cotton gloves or thin wool gloves (the Brikos are good) over my mitts. Have a pair of Cannondale branded Lobster gloves which are almost always too hot and are very cumbersome.

With my 'in-built insulation' the only bits that suffer are feet (lots) and hands (a bit).
Sounds like a pretty good reason to try some of these Seal Skinz. Do I have to club my own?

I use these:

Perhaps a little overpriced at £25, but I find them very comfortable, very waterproof, grippable enough (although maybe not on wet unwrapped bars) and surprisingly breatheable. One of their greatest advantages, in my view, is the fact that when you miscalculate and wear them on a warm day, your hands don't end up in their own steam-sauna. Lasted me 18 month/1.5 winters with no problems so far.

I just got some new winter gloves, sealskinz ladies ones. Half price in condor (only in small I think - and they are small); well toasty. And I get really cold hands. Reynolds syndrome :)

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Images/Models/Full/30585.jpg

Reynolds syndrome

That's awesome. [/dogsballs]

*POC Glove
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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

Decathlon silk glove liners for £5 plus any glove/mitt combo you fancy on top.

The liners are excellent but I seem to be doomed with them, left one pair on a train, and the replacement pair fell down a gutter last week. Must buy some more...

At the moment I'm mainly using these windproof gloves (Pearl Izumi Cyclone) for really cold days.

I need some a dem silk glove liners, wore my heavy duty Gore gloves today and my fingertips were still well cold at the end of my 9 mile ride... Not brilliant really... :/