Just got my third pair of gloves in the past two years. Worn them out. Better for sweat and nose wipe. My last "accident" I was riding with a stiff tailwind, flying under a bridge on SART when two young men pushed a shopping cart in front of me. Man, my disc brakes are good. I slowed mostly until I hit it dead center. It was too quick to try to dodge it and the alternative was to dive off the side and down into the concrete river. So at the speed I was going I flew off my bike, did the Superman ( arm out front prone ) flew over the shopping cart (barely) and fell straight down about five feet. Its been a month and the two circular pads below my thumbs are still sore. the gell in my gloves blew out onto the cement.There is no drop and roll for this. At least this time my face didn't do the rebound slam. By the way when I jumped up and ran after those little punks they ran like little girls. I picked up and went on....Hands still hurt but no rash and cuts so the gloves were great.