Originally Posted by SPlKE

I stopped wearing gloves a few years ago after I got CF bars and started using fizik microtex (or whatever) tape.

I've heard all the arguments for gloves being about protecting your hands in a crash, not comfort on the bars.

My ride-time to crash ratio is high enough that I'd rather be comfortable riding gloveless during the 10,000 miles I ride between crashes, and put up with some road rash on my hands if I do crash.

Except for weather gloves, regular riding gloves are only required if you are riding with old school aluminum or steel bars wrapped with slippery non-porous tape.