Winter gloves

Yep, haven't tried them yet though. Last winter I wore my snow boots a lot. I might treat myself to new snow boots this winter as they're covered in chain oil. I might also clean my chain a bit more frequently.

I plan to do a lot of snowbiking this winter. Solved the cold hands thing with pogies. Someone really needs to invent foot pogies.

Just bought a pair of sealskins waterproof winter gloves, first test was a couple of minutes fully submerged in a sink full of water and they held up alright... Buy a couple of sizes bigger though, I normally wear M gloves and went for an XL in these.

Apologies for getting this running again so soon.

Today was the first day that i've thought I needed gloves again, sad times :(

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/campagnolo-steam-thermo-gloves/rp-prod85305

These good price? Preparing now. No way am I going through another winter with a "I can handle it" mindset only to come out an ice cube on the other side.

Word on the streets is that Rapha is coming out with the boom-lick gloves this winter. Have never spent anything on Rapha but this may be a start, brother's got bad circulation, the blood's got too far to go round the body.

i saw some of the prototype rapha winter gloves

the product testers were all very impressed with them

Just bought a pair of sealskins waterproof winter gloves, first test was a couple of minutes fully submerged in a sink full of water and they held up alright... Buy a couple of sizes bigger though, I normally wear M gloves and went for an XL in these.

Why a couple sizes bigger?

Because they size up very small- a lot of the Sealskinz range are too small for me to wear, despite being labelled as XXXL

Agreed, sealskinz are made for people with tiny hands (I have, in the words of my ex boyfriend, "the hands of a farmer's wife"). I wish there was some glove size consistency. Maybe if hands were measured like feet and you knew you had size 39 hands or something then buying gloves would be a lot easier.

Hats "strangler" McHats.

I have also heard that the Rapha winter gloves are meant to be good- maybe my seemingly endless quest for good gloves will be answered this year, leaving me with only my feet to sort out.

What you need, Dammit, is an insulating layer of fat...

I really want lobster gloves this winter. I bought some amazing mittens at the end of last winter, which are super toasty and lovely, but are no good at all for gears or stuff like that.

I bought some insulated lobster gloves last year, would you like to try them?

They're a bit big for me so your vast, spatulate hands might just fit.

I'd love to. I'll wrap my hands in clingfilm to try to compress them a little so I don't stretch your gloves.

Re lobsters.

I, like Dammit, have an array of winter gloves. Amongst them, Halvarssos Jofa lobsters they are excellent but for bitter conditions. The problem I have is cold fingertips below 10 degrees never mind below freezing.

I've had sealskins in the past, rubbish IMO.

I imagine the Rapha ones will be nice, but ultimately pricey.

The challenge that I have is that as soon as the liner is compressed against the outer the cold transmits through the glove, and my finger loses all circulation in a hurry.

I made a great deal of progress when I switched to XXL/XXXL gloves, which finally meant that my fingers didn't press against the ends, although the gloves are undeniably baggy.

The lobsters are warm, no doubt, but I found the sudden drop in dexterity worrying.

I put a great deal of thought into using Di2 for my all-weather bike due to the shift buttons being very small - hard to find with thick gloves.

However, I now use a climbers button, which gives you two buttons that look a lot like they've been recycled from an old ThinkPad keyboard, so you could hit them with an elbow reliably if it came down to it.

The best winter gloves I ever had were, believe it or not, a pair of Carhart wool-over-thinsulate affairs that I picked up for £20 in a random shop in Dulwich.

Sadly I dropped one winter before last.

Thinking about it, I have a pair of the SealSkinz wooly gloves- they are pretty good, and I'll switch to them when the Prenda's (which are excellent) get out of their depth.

i saw some of the prototype rapha winter gloves

the product testers were all very impressed with them

Will Rapha do an amnesty discount / exchange on worn out original winter gloves?

Also: recommendations on light-weight full finger gloves that will get me through the next two months of inclement weather before the real freeze begins? Resistance to / ability to still function whilst muddy a bonus.

The sealskins wooly gloves are working well for me at the moment, be interested to see what temp they stop working.

I am unsure of their mud friendliness, however.

Have any of you guys with cold hands tried ski/snowboarding gloves/mitts?

The high end gloves can work. Basically the more expensive, and effective the insulation, the thinner the glove can be. So the pricey ones allow you to ride OK.

Personally I reckon if youre in need of that much warmth. Fit some pogies. I was riding in bare hands last winter using them. I found it best to have a thin XC glove on, incase I needed to take my hands out. Even then I found myself occasionally taking them off and leaving them stuffed in the pogies.

Awesome things.

Have any of you guys with cold hands tried ski/snowboarding gloves/mitts?

YES! It was April, Was a sunny winters day, I left the house in the afternoon. It was clear skies all around. I pedal away in happiness to a friends. I stay till late late into the eve, little did I know the weather had other far more nefarious plans in wait for me. Bitter bitter cold that turns eyes into frozen oysters and veins into strawberry strings.

What's this? My old snowboarding gloves?
FUCK YOUUU WEATHER!

It was a gripless but oh so warm midnight ride back. Seriously, it was probably the only time it was shitting black rain ice storms of hoth kinda cold where I got back home with perfectly warm hands.

Currently enjoying Assos 851s that I got cheap from Sigma a few weeks ago. Thinking if the weather continues as is, I'll be adding some ebay merino/silk liners and then shortly thereafter sticking the whole lot under the Specialized Subzero lobster outers that I got last winter.

I feel confident that if I still have cold hands after that (I will do, I guarantee it), bar electrically heated options, I've done all that's possible with gloves and any issues are a problem with my body, and not clothing. At last, the gtlove spending can end.

Currently enjoying Assos 851s that I got cheap from Sigma a few weeks ago. Thinking if the weather continues as is, I'll be adding some ebay merino/silk liners and then shortly thereafter sticking the whole lot under the Specialized Subzero lobster outers that I got last winter.

Bought some cheapo EBay silk liners last winter. Really impressed with them. They are really low volume. So easy to layer. And make a real difference.

Yeah, I got a £5 ebay pair last year and was wearing them under the subzero's liners on the bike and under Rapha Town Gloves when off the bike. Had them on at least 2 or 3 hours per day and loved them until I lost one, just as it was getting warm enough to not bother replacing them.

Have you tried merino? I was happy with the silk (or whatever the cheapo ebay approximation is), but in that typical nerd way, even when I'm perfectly happy with something, I'm wondering whether the alternative may perform a bit better.

Merino will be thicker, and less comfortable over time. I also feel the silk will last longer. Although I cant really be certain of that. All my merino base layers wear out in the end. I have t-shirts for winter running with literally no armpits left. The silk seems to be more abrasion resistant.