The most useful tip I've gotten from this forum was putting newspaper in wet shoes to dry them quickly. Is there a similar trick for gloves?

I've got these gloves:



For the most part, I love them. My one complaint is that once they get wet they take a long time to dry, and they're very difficult to put on when wet. ... My two complaints are...

Is there a trick?

I love my boot/glove dryer and I bough a few years back. It has 4 posts, and can dry out 4 items at once. You can run it either with warm air or pain room temp air. It does a fantastic job on those wet fall days when your shoes and gloves get soaked. In the winter I don't use it that much for cycling gear as that tends to stay fairly dry, even when it is snowing. After my daughter is done playing outside in the snow however the dryer gets plenty of use. If realy helps to get equipment dry before it has a chance to get stinky. We paid about $80, but hope to get many years of use out of it. The dryer works much better than just trying to lay the gloves or boots on the forced-air duct.

Happy riding,
André

I hang mine on my gargoyle's wings:



The full-finger ones look even flappier

At my office, I prop my up next to a little fan. At home, they either go on a floor duct vent or in front of a fan depending upon whether it is winter or another season. I use ski type gloves when it is as cold as it is here now. They are supposed to be waterproof/breathable, and I guess they are, but they still get damp from moisture coming off my body. They usually dry out in a couple hours on their own though. When my other gloves are soaked from rain, that is when I need the fan/vent.

I have the same problem with some full-fingered type ski gloves I use in cold rainy weather. Though presumably waterproof, they can eventually get wet. The best I have been able to do so far is evert the glove, though I can't evert the fingers, and then blow a fan onto the inner lining of the palm, now on the outside, and thus wick away the wetness of the fingers. I haven't really figured out if that is quicker, but I did it once, though not in a rush to dry them. Another idea I had was to insert a hollow cylindrical tube like from a roll of toilet paper into the glove and blow dry, but I didn’t have any tubes available.

Since it rains at only down to about 32* F, I thought I might just try to use some flexible cloth gloves that are easier to dry, and see how well I tolerate them getting wet on my 14 mile commute; maybe I don’t really need those heavy duty ones.

I place mine with the open end about an inch out from my PC fan while at work. I used to use the monitor but now with the LCD monitors it doesn't work anymore. At home I use the heat register.

Leave them with as much surface-to-air area as possible, so hanging up is great. If you can set them near a fan or a heater, all the better.

buy a 2nd pair and alternate while the other is drying

This is exactly what I was trying today. So far, it's got the cuff of one glove nice and dry. I turned it partially inside out to see what more it will do, but if I turn out the fingers, I may never get the glove on again. When the built-in liner gets misaligned on these things it's like trying to crawl into a short-sheeted bed.

Off topic, I used to use my PC monitor to reheat left-over pizza. LCD monitors are such a down-grade in functionality.

The funny thing is, I have two pairs for that exact reason but I left the other pair at home today because they were still wet from riding home in a downpour last night. You gotta love Oregon. Maybe I need four pairs.

Exactly! These are marketed as waterproof, but get terrible reviews because they aren't. The truth is, most days my hands are wet with sweat before these leak through, but they do eventually get saturated in a steady rain. BTW, these are great gloves down to about 35 F, maybe lower if you're more cold-tolerant than I am.

Nice!

Hang drying doesn't generally work for me with these gloves, but maybe if I had a gargoyle....

If it's warm enough for rain, I use these:
https://www.mec.ca/Products/product_d...34374302886890

They dry out just sitting on my bike (indoor storage) during the day. Occasionally they are a bit damp, but they're fine like that - easy to put on and warm up fast. When it gets below freezing, I don't really have a problem with moisture. I usually just throw another pair of gloves over those. It doesn't get colder than -10C here though.

I've given up on keeping water out. I just look for materials that keep me comfortable while wet.

https://www.harborfreight.com/four-po...yer-67326.html

As long as there is no metal or metallic details on the gloves, try putting them in a microwave on high for about 30 seconds - they may be a bit damp, but at least they're warm!

That looks good. It's not quite as satisfying as newspaper, but I guess I can use technology if necessary.

re: "Maybe I need four pairs."

double redundancy ... brilliant!

I used to work at a place where I had free rein of the boiler room - it was awesome. by the end of every day everything was always dry ... sigh ... miss that place, if even only for the boiler room ... hahaha

+1

Winner! These are great.

I have one of the four poster units at home, but I use these at work. They work fine for gloves in spite of the name.

Both are great.

Move to Arizona. The sun is so strong and the air is so dry here, no need for anything else. . . but lots of sunscreen and lotion.

I have one of the four poster units at home, picked it up at a yard sale for $5.00. I don't have any way to dry my gloves at work. I carry an extra pair because they don't dry at work. I think I will invest in one of the dryguy units to use at work. Thanks Specq for the link.

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+1 Ive always done this. Also works for socks but you need a more forgiving work environment.

Perhaps there is room in the USB accessory market for a glove/sock drier (next to the USB toaster and USB drinks cooler)