Commuting - Stinky gloves

I noticed that gloves with foam padding eventually get a terminal case of stinky-do.

I also noticed how well my made-for-manual-labor non-padded fingerless leather gloves maintain that leathery smell. They may be ugly, but they don't stink!

:D

I've got over 15,000 miles on my Trek gels. I hand wash them regularly and hang dry. They're still going strong. :)

I made a couple of coils out of insulated 12 guage electrical wire to stick in my gloves to hold them open to get good and dry every day. Nothing fancy. Just a couple of turns forming a coil large enough in diamter to hold the gloves open. This is at work. At home, I hang them on the ends of a coat hanger with the ends bent up so the gloves don't fall off. I hang this on the intake grill for the central A/C. I don't know if I would do this up north where you have SERIOUS heating systems that really dry out the air. The gloves might dry to fast and shrink. Down here the humidity is so high I have to take extreme measures to get things to dry. If my gloves do not dry thoroughly because the humidity is high, I alternate gloves. By drying them thoroughly they don't get too stinky. Every few weeks I throw them in the washer on hand wash and hang them to dry. In the summer my gloves get thoroughly soaked on every ride, literally dripping wet.
FWIW,
Raymond

Last night I made my usual ride along the seafron, it was cold and damp, and my nose was running as fast as the joggers.
I ended up wiping my nose on my gloves, which is not exactly good for glove hygene. I know some gloves have a towelling back to wipe your brow with.
I thought that adding a velcro detachable nose pad would be a real help towards Total Glove Hygene. What material would be best for runny noses.

Originally posted by RainmanP
Every few weeks I throw them in the washer on hand wash

Isn't hand washing in a washing machine a contradiction in terms? :confused: ;)

Ellie

Perhaps I should have said "hand wash cycle" in the washing machine. I throw them in with a load of shorts and jerseys on the hand wash cycle.
Regards,
Raymond

I wonder if washing them with a little baking soda would help?

One set of gloves has take the odor death..

My next set should hold on longer. Of course, I haven't had much use for them yet.

Originally posted by Ellie
Isn't hand washing in a washing machine a contradiction in terms? :confused: ;)

Ellie
I just noticed that! :D

Raymond, take courage, man. I know what you mean. :)

Originally posted by RainmanP
I made a couple of coils out of insulated 12 guage electrical wire to stick in my gloves to hold them open to get good and dry every day.
How long do you have to leave them plugged in? :eek:

After a rainy commute, I use my desktop glove drying unit. It also has a secondary purpose, doubling up as a computer screen.

A few days ago I was going to make a reply to what Pete had started as a thread about stinky foam gloves. I wanted to say that Stinky Pete should have stinky gloves. Now that the thread has turned into a different monster, what I had to say seems out of place...:rolleyes:
Pete, I hope you get a chance to get some new gloves soon. :thumbup:

MichaelW, I do something very similar. I use a binder clip to hang my gloves in front of my little electric fan. I also hang my skull cap, etc, in front of my fan. It is like having a little clothes line. Sometimes I wash in my sink at work some of my gear that has developed salt crystals, and I use my tiny clothes line for speedy drying.

Originally posted by A F Baker
...Stinky Pete should have stinky gloves...
:roflmao:

:eek:

I've got over 15,000 miles on my Trek gels. I hand wash them regularly and hang dry. They're still going strong. :)

I thought an update concerning my gloves deserved attention. My Trek gel gloves now have over 21,000 miles on them!!! They are getting a bit thin now. :( I may have to look into replacing them within the next 10,000 miles. :D I think they have one or two more RAGBRAIs left in them.

I got some suede blue-gray uglies back in 96. They never stink. Thought it'd be swell to "upgrade" my gloves to a v2.0 and bought some all black cheapies (which makes your hands look sort of like that blonde girl in The Thompson Twins that wore the funny hats), and those v2.0 stink like skunk genitals. I still use the aging blue & grays

I may suggest the thread title to my friend as a name for his glam-rock band.
Glove sniffers, smell the glove. C'mon, you know you want to! :p

"The baddest rock band this side of Detroit, give it up for the Stinkey Gloves!!"

There is a girl band local called 'Stink Mit' ..not shure if they are cyclists though.

One in a while, use a little woolite in the sink and soak your gloves. Rinse well and hang them up to dry. The stink goes away and the terrycloth patch gets nice and soft again for wiping whatever body fluid you prefer.

Keeps them looking nice too.