Originally Posted by
KraneXL
Think allegory. Its not seeing a bike as a toy. You will instinctively use your hands in a fall. If any extremity needed to a cover/protection it would be your hands. I have fallen, and my gloves did protect me.
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#1 reason I wear fingerless gloves in warm weather = a helmet for my hands. One time I went down on a downhill turn in West Virginia where there shouldn't have been any sand -- but there was in one spot and it was near invisible -- I wasn't going full speed but fast. I didn't break anything, I usually take all falls well. But what hit the pavement was the heel of my right hand to instinctively protect my body just before I could crunch up and roll away. The coarse rural pavement was a
#20 sanding belt. It took weeks to regrow the skin and tissue over my heel bone after sanding it off. No thanks, not again. I like my hands so I wear all manner of gloves for various tasks and substances, where it makes good sense. Practicing wheelies on the lawn? Not needed..