Guaranteed warm gloves
 

someone please recommend some Guaranteed warm gloves. i have tried a bunch over the years and don't seem to find any that will actually keep my hands warm while riding my bike.
thanks

I use Grandoe ski gloves. They have a nylon/leather exterior lined with soft polyester and 2 polyester inserts. So on the coldest day I can wear 3 layer gloves. If too warm, take out one insert or both. Nebraska winters can be cold and windy and my hands have NEVER gotten cold. And no problem with shifters or brake levers.

Not the most pleasing to the eye, but if you want warm, these will work.

Carbondale which model do you have. I did a quick search and could not find a pair that matches your description.

What works for Snowboarding for me works on the road just as well.

Burton (the snowboard company) makes the best Cold/Wet Weather Gloves I've used. Don't cheap out, you get what you pay for with gloves/mittens IME, Go for Gore-tex

Last winter, I used Thinsulate mittens over my Pearl Izumi cycling gloves.

Pearl Izumi Lobster Claws left my hands too warm in just about any weather.

If you have truly bad circulation problems there are some high altitude, sub-zero mitts and gloves by Outdoor Research that would do the trick. In fact, I have an extra pair if you might be interested...pm me if you are.

I have these: http://www.alpineskicenter.com/Burto...p-3490247.html

I tried them for riding once or twice and found them too warm. (Well, Melbourne is not the coldest city - 5C is a chilly winter's day). Now I just use the inner glove, and find it perfect.

(they are great for snowboarding though :))

Steve

Depends on what you consider cold weather. At sub zero I use pogies, with wool mittens inside. Above that Ski mittens...

I use Pearl Izumi lobsters below about 35-40F (even then, they are kind of warm, but my other pair are too cold). They work down to about 10F, then I add a thin pair of liners that I bought for cross country skiing. When it gets down to around 0F, I add chemical hand warmers, and that combo has taken me down to -15F.

Hope this helps!

Mittens are way better than gloves. I found that the only thing I could stand were REI windproof mitts when the mercury went down to -30 celsius.

I find that dousing them in diesel fuel and then putting a match to them does the trick.

+1 Except I use Gordini Summit 2 gloves. They're available @ http://www.campmor.com There's a mitten version, too. I'm getting them for this winter. Also, the liners I use are 100% merino wool. Get the gloves one size too large and the liners will fit perfectly. Alot of roadies I meet use th PI Lobster Claws, and swear by them, so you can't go wrong that way either.

I'm not sure what it takes to have cold hands in these. $40 from Cabelas. Room for a liner and heat pack if you need 'em.

http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/c...2?$main-Large$

It depends a lot on your body. I ride with just a cheap ($10) pair of windproof/breathable gloves from Kohls down to -20*F and have no real problem. Others seem to need lobster claws at +20*F. At that temp I might still be riding with half finger gloves.

Lobster claws are guaranteed warm. If I wore them at any temp above about 0*F my fingers would turn red from the heat though.

See here:
http://www.icebike.com/Clothing/handprotection.htm

Pogies seem like a good idea, honestly.

^^^^^this guy would know.

And I agree with Lobster Claws. My wife got me some and I wear them so she doesn't feel bad, but can't stand them above 0degF (they're that hot). Honestly, my preferred glove for above 0 is made my Kinco, and is about $6 in most feed stores. It's pigskin palmed with a proprietary insulation. I use them for mountaineering, backcountry skiing, and commuting.

Wife actually bought me some lighter-weight gloves, so I'll try those as the fall comes on, but I like really lightweight, fleece liners for anything above freezing.

Oh yeah, I have warm hands, tho.

I'll have to drop by the feed store on the way home and see if I can find some of those. Down to about 20*F I usually just use some fairly light gloves, really almost just fleece liners themselves. Below zero I have some fairly toasty gloves. I wouldn't mind finding something nice in the middle.

I can only use these at 30F or less:
http://store.pksafety.net/me34waprludr.html

Anything above that and my hands sweat too much. I can't verify the level of waterproofness because it's always been too cold for rain when I wore them. And you can't go wrong for the price.

Wow those Pogies are pretty cool, looks like they might even be too warm though... I liked the Moose Knuckle Mitts on that site too.

Don't lose your mittens and you won't be a cold kitten.

As someone else has mentioned, people's reaction to cold varies quite a bit so it's hard to guarantee anything. This is probably overkill:


http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...rmourmitts.jpg

They're Ice Armour mitts. I wore them while winter camping last year at Superior National Forest in Northern MN. It was toward the end of the season so it was fairly mild. It only got down to -15 the first night. The nice thing about winter camping is that there are no bugs and no rain so you can skip the tents.

Dressing for spending a few days out in the cold is a different deal than dressing for spending 45 minutes on a bike.

In my case as long as I'm working fairly vigorously, my hands and feet won't have too much trouble keeping warm if they're dry. A pair of decent ski gloves usually works pretty well and there was a morning or two last year where the temp dropped to around -20.

While I was camping, I wore a thin pair of wool glove liners under the mitts. They were adequate on their own while we were snow shoeing. I kept the mitts clipped to my jacket. These mitts do have a zipper which I assumed was for ventilation if it got too warm. Maybe it was for a chemical warmer though.

One helpful tip I got from the winter biking forum really helped keep my hands warm during snowball fights with the kids. That is if you keep your wrists warm, the circulation in your hands will be better. Typically during a snowball fight I'd end up with snow packed between my gloves and wrists. Once I learned to keep the snow out of there, my snowball packing and aim improved dramatically since my fingers wouldn't go numb as quickly.

Oh, that tip has helped on the bike as well. Keep your wrists covered.

Hm, how do you guys shift? It's just occurring to me now that my fancy trigger-shifters may not be so great on the cold days . . .

It's never been a problem for me, but dexterity certainly suffers. I keep contemplating going back to GripShift.

I can't find my model anywhere either, but quite similar to these:

http://www.onlygloves.com/winter-glo...litegloves.cfm

This is a great thread...

I ride all winter, and although I live in Idaho's "banana belt" it can still get down to zero on the coldest mornings. Even with ski goves my fingers get cold. I've tried Craft lobsters with liners - they weren't warm enough either.

Gonna try the gloves Carbondale recommends... They've got nasty weather in NE, so I figure he's gotta be on to something!