bdcheung

substructure

Mostly crits for me. Sometime road races. Just not always.

dmb2786

i don't get it. i wear gloves in most races because i'm a cat 5 and i have had enough close calls. if i were a pro, i might never wear gloves, but i imagine there is an incentive for them to do so from the sponsorship.

cat4ever

Ok, so someone didn't wear gloves. So? I hate gloves and only wear them in crits.

border reiver

There are crashes in all categories -- including pros -- and probably just as many.

MDcatV

bd - I dont get your point. lots of racers dont wear gloves.

bdcheung

i don't have a point. just a slow morning at work.

though I don't really blame you for missing the signs - most of my threads and posts are as mindless as this.

umd

One reason many of us non-pros wear gloves is because we have to work with our hands. If we crash and mess up our hands it makes it harder to work and make a living.

YMCA

Gloves are for tree chopping

Jynx

so put it in road cycling?

fauxto nick

After this I always wear gloves now, and in crits I'm wearing full fingered gloves. It took about a month for that wound to fully close up and I still have slight pain in the area from the impact.

PhillyRoadie

I didn't used to worry about gloves too much. Then botto made a snarky comment, and then I crashed and my gloves saved me a whole lot of my palms. So now I'm in the "gloves, always" camp (and with a better appreciation of how botto's snark can be useful)

FixdGearHead

yep. Look past Botto's internet meme-level status as a snarky b*stard, you'll find that he does indeed know a thing or two about cycling.

Grumpy McTrumpy

gloves always, even in TTs

Szczuldo

can't stand odd tanlines on my hands so no gloves for me. I'm sure I'll regret it sometime. I only wear gloves when I have to start wearing long sleeve jerseys.

Hocam

+1

RR too.

fauxto nick

I've been noticing Rahsaan Bahati has been wearing MTB gloves in crits lately, I know he also recently went down and opened his palm up too.

When I went down and wasn't wearing gloves I was on a nice leisurely recovery ride near the beach, almost didn't wear a helmet that day, didn't think twice about not wearing gloves; I was rueing that decision for a month.

I can dig all you cats who aren't wearing gloves, really I can. That's your decision, but I'm telling you between rock climbing, drumming and now cycling I've done a lot of things that have destroyed my hands. I have so much scared tissue on my knuckles just grazing them across rough surfaces opens up the skin... trust me NOTHING is more troublesome than a palm injury.

admcptch

umd, what full finger gloves do you wear? I remember you saying somewhere that they were nice and breathable. I'm a computer major, so I need me hands/fingers. I wear a pair of PI gloves that aren't full finger, but I would like to pick up a pair of full finger gloves that aren't too hot for summer weather.

El Diablo Rojo

Only time I don't wear gloves is when I'm riding my TT bike. Otherwise I wear them even when training. I'm a film editor and I need my hands to be in good shape. I wear padless gloves, the new Giro Zero's are very nice. Besides what else am I going wipe the snot with?

bdcheung

My gloves:

timster

Are they padded? How do you like them? I'd love to find some good non padded full finger gloves.

bdcheung

They're not padded - I never liked padding.

I love them. They breathe very well, and I prefer leather over synthetic when it comes to my palms.

Here's a pic of me wearing them:

botto 

when you're good enough to handle a bike like a pro, be my guest.

umd

BG Ridge. Only a tiny bit of padding that wears out quickly...

w4ta

One of my least favorite crash stories involves a friend who went down in a sprint finish with palm-gloves (no finger covering). His gloves got shredded, his palms were fine, but three of his fingernails got shoved completely backwards, hanging on at 90-degree angles. He had to go the emergency room... and it took the emergency-room doctor quite some time to clip and pull them off. Extremely painful.

As a result, I wear full-fingered gloves. Odds are that even if-or-when I crash, my fingernails won't flip like his... but its pretty simple insurance. In fact, in a sprint-finish crash of my own last summer, my gloves were torn across the fingers... but had I not been wearing the gloves, it would have been my flesh.