Originally Posted by 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.