vol

You would have to lift your hand in order to see from the mirror.

kenwer

The usefulness of gloves as a sweat mop, palm protector, and as another bit of gear to obsess over can't be overstated, without more time than I have right now.

ThermionicScott 

Did a 400k brevet this weekend, and never got my gloves out of the handlebar bag. Hands have never felt better after a long ride.

I-Like-To-Bike

If the responses on this thread are representative of BF commuters' preferences (almost 100% wear gloves at all times when commuting), it demonstrates to me how unrepresentative BF commuters are of bike commuters in general. Not surprising though.

Dubyas

No gloves for me. Even my Dainese full metal motorcycle gloves don't protect against broken fingers

Stravacyclist79

Padded gloves half or full. Sorry to hear about your pinky and your job. Are you a hand model?

Darth Lefty 

Wish I'd been wearing gloves last night when I was cutting the dog's arthritis pill in half and took a chunk out of my left index finger.

YouthInAsia

Gloves arrived yesterday. I like 'em a lot. But they are definitely over-priced at $36/pair. I paid for the name - I can see that now. These TLD gloves are great summer gloves, but there's not much to them. They're very thin. However, they work great with my iPhone!

RaleighSport

Okay now that is clever!

Oh and OP back when I was young and dumb and did things with a skateboard that would make me cringe now.. I sometimes would use these, especially if it was a new trick.


They're rollerblading gloves, and if you pay attention, they can save your fingers, hands wrists etc... but you gotta remember to use the bars for landing not your face or hands.

I-Like-To-Bike

You need gloves to operate an iPhone?

YouthInAsia

I love full finger gloves. And no other gloves work with an iPhone as far as I know. :-)


This solution is not for me. I'm a vain man. I gotta have gloves that look good. In my opinion this rollerblading glove/wrist protection/MacGyver setup looks like I'm paranoid of crashing. It's a creative idea, just not for me.

The old Mechanix gloves with the mirrored sunglass lens isn't for me either. Equally creative, but just isn't the look for me.

MileHighMark

Lizard Skins also has a touch-screen-compatible glove (Monitor 1.0)

icyj

I am also in the always wear glove camp. First wipe out and I learned to love the glove, the extra sweat, and glorious tans lines.

jimmie65

Late to this thread, but I always wear gloves. The first time I forgot them was a day I took a spill and tore up the palm of my left hand.
Also, I sometimes ride in 100+ degrees and high humidity, and gloves really help my grip when sweat is pouring down my arms.

I go the relatively inexpensive route of Pearl Izumi Attack gloves.

rmfnla

I like the cushioning when I pound the top of some idiot's car that came too close...

jimmie65

Motorcycle gloves with studs or spikes. You get the cushioning and some extra scratches.

auldgeunquers

I also usually wear gloves. I like clean hands. I dislike road rash. I like High viz gloves since my hand double as my turn signal.

I have a fingerless pair, but usually I am using full fingered ones that I discovered at the Dollar store of all places. For 3 bucks I got gloves that fit well with a faux leather palm and a high viz fabric back with a reflective pinstripe.

I did not expect them to last long BUT they have given me much more than I expected. The faux leather is supple and durable. They breathe well because my hands don't sweart and they turned out to be water proof to boot. I expected a month out of them and I have been using them regularly (though not daily) for about 5 months now.

Not bad for gloves I thought of as disposable when I got them. I have 2 pair and one seam is starting to let go on one glove.

dragoonO1

I have always worn gloves, but I refuse to spend very much on them. I vastly prefer abrading the glove material rather than the flesh from my hands if I hit asphalt. They also serve to improve my grip, which provides me a marginal safety improvement as well as drastically improving my ability to operate my Grip Shifts.

FrankHudson

I've always worn them. When I was a daily commuter I worked in an ER and cleaned enough road rash to wish to minimize it. Nice for sweat mop when it's hot and I have some other poorly ventilated "summer" half finger gloves that I find ideal for those fall and spring 50 degree rides. And in winter, gloves are not optional in Minnesota!

bigredkevbot

I hear gloves for the temperature, though I notice on long rides I get bruises on my palms, though I am developing a strange callous. I have considered getting some fingerless gloves or putting gel pads under my bar tape.

vtkarl

+1 ... I've torn the palm out of an REI glove. Imagine if that was my palm!

I now wear full-finger gloves year-round (after I ripped off the entire top of my pinky knuckle wearing fingerless gloves). Also helps keep chain junk off my hands.

genec

Started wearing gloves way back in the '70s, when there was pretty much only one style of cycling glove... learned the hard way that any time you might fall... even the simplest thing like catching a wheel in a crack in pavement... you always put your hands out to protect your head... you just do it... it is an automatic response. So after your hands grind in the grit and grime on the road and come back a bit scratched and scored... well, gloves become sooo obvious.

Double0757

I have tried to simplify my life by not wearing gloves. I got a good cork padded tape and a gel insert to go under the tape. My drop bars are comfy and well padded. However, after trying several rides without them and going back to gloves, I prefer having gloves.

The extra padding is always welcome, but not only that, it's the grip (better when wet), the ability to wipe sweat and snut and the protection in case of an accident, made me decide to wear them all the time.

rocdoc

After a couple of spills where the hands were the only part of my body not skinned off (thanks to the biking gloves I had on), I never ride without them.

RoboChrist

You know it's amazing....I had the very same accident that at least one other poster had...hitting a patch of sand, on a straight stretch of road no less. And I consider myself an expert rider.

11% of all cycling injuries occur in the hands, so you're right to be surprised just like me.