Originally Posted by
Harhir
I have large hands with a girth of about 11.5”. I trying to find some padded half finger gloves which don’t squeeze my hands. All the XXL or XXXL ones I am finding are two small and my hand and fingers will start tingling after minutes.
Can anyone recommend some large padded gloves?
Impressive…11.5” is pretty big!
I thought mine were large at 10 5/8”…
Anyway, I don’t have any specific reccos, but would suggest you contact the company Elastic Interface and see if they manufacture a suitably sized palm pad which some glove maker is using. The EI palm pad is, as the name suggests, stretchy, so when combined with a stretchy upper, really increases the fit range and enhances comfort.
I use MAAP Pro Race Mitts in XL, which according to their fit chart are appropriate up to 9.6”, but they fit my 10 5/8”ers like, well, a glove! They’re the best gloves I’ve ever had in my +30 years of cycling; I’ve had a lot of gloves. I don’t know that there’s another .6” of comfort in those for you, so I won’t reccommend those, but it’s the proof of concept to me that’s interesting; all the material stretches, so it’s not the same as cramming your hand into a fixed-width glove. Maybe EI make a pad larger than the XL used by MAAP, Q.36.5, and others. DHB, Wiggle’s house brand, claim to have an EI pad glove in a 2XL, and the pricing is quite good, so it may be worth a flyer just to see. I suspect that a lot of these companies are posting fit guides based on standard gloves, not the EI palms, which would explain why I can fit into an XL.
Shoot an email over to EI and see what they say. Good luck!