Originally Posted by
wphamilton
...That's not to say someone's feet aren't getting cold. I remember having the same questions about cold feet and it's maddening when nothing seems to work...One thing I did discover: keep the lower legs warm and the feet will stay warmer.
I have found that the same principle works for my hands.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
My coldest temperatures are rarely down to 0°F for my 14 mile one-way commute, when I wear the combination pictured below with cheapo fleece mittens. I generally wear single windproof fingered ski gloves though, sometimes with a thin inner knit pair.
However, whenever wearing hand wear at any temperature, I also wear a pair of “wrist gaiters” made from athletic socks, to seal the wrists from any gaps between gloves and jacket.
I note that the skin of my covered forearms perspires from the additional warmth. I speculate that these wrist gaiters may further warm the blood flowing to my hands. Since wearing them, I haven’t had any hand problems, FWIW. Feet are another matter, my weakest link for winter riding.
Addendum: See also this preceding similar opinion:
Originally Posted by
Al Criner
Try using some tennis wrist bands along with your gloves/mitts. If the pulse points in your wrists are warm your hands stay warmer. This is surprisingly effective IME, although we don't get extreme winter weather where I live.
The wrist gaiters are longer than tennis wrist bands and thus cover a longer segment of the forearm blood flow to futher warm it up, as I suggest.
Last edited by Jim from Boston; 11-17-14 at 05:42 AM.