Track Cycling - Track specific gloves

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ZappCatt
11-26-05, 03:49 PM
Do you racers use Track specific gloves?
If so, what brands? Where did you buy them?
What specific features would make a glove Track Specific?
None really.
the old lycra gloves were cool to race with.
S/F,
CEYA!
taras0000
11-27-05, 04:22 PM
I use football gloves, specifically those made for running backs. Cutters if you need to know the brand, although Neumann makes a good one too but a little less tacky. The palms are made form tackified leather, so they're pretty sticky. The grip you get while using these pups with keiring grips is phenomenal. You don't have to wrap your hands around the bar and grip as firmly during longer races, and when you're really givin'er during a sprint or standing start, your hands don't move.
What are the requirements for a track glove anyway?
Does it have to be minimalist, like the bike? So it's like, there aren't any fingers, just a pad of leather strapped to your palm or something?
It seems a lot of trackies use football gloves as tara mentioned above. Wide receiver, lineman gloves, by under armour, nike etc.
A lot of them even prefer them over the hi-end keirin gloves.
Full-fingered for sprint action.
On the amatuer level, I have seen regular wool gloves, mountain bike gloves, regular lycra road biking gloves.
ZappCatt
11-27-05, 05:53 PM
Cool, thanks. I am going to try a pair of cheap receiver gloves. I actually had a pair in college that I got from a guy on our football team and they were pretty warm in addition to the tackiness. I might try them as my Cali Winter glove.. a little extra grip in the wet couldn't hurt.
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