I may actually try riding without gloves soon. For the moment we have some warmer days that don’t require gloves but no sun intensity to worry about.

Also, I changed bar tape to Brooks microfiber tape a couple weeks ago. It has a leather like texture and bare hands grip very easily on it while my cheapo cycling gloves don’t grip well, so there is more effort needed to keep a grip.

Luckily, the Bontrager gloves I got for temps in the vicinity of 40 deg F (very common here in winter) have a rubbery palm surface that grips very nicely on the Brooks tape.

Otto