I ride all through the winter with full fingered gloves and don't recall any problems with a Garmin 800 which also has a touchscreen. Most days my gloves aren't terribly thick and some of them have some type of thinner conductive patch on the index finger but I think they all work as the displays Garmin uses are resistive touch screen which are just pressure sensitive. Smartphones use capacitive touch screens which are affected more by gloves.