Any recommendations for gloves? Something with a decent amount of padding. Light weight. Comes in black?

a shell over something with padding. its good to have options.

sorry man, im a little intoxihibited. im sure someone will have better advice.

I thought you meant winter gloves, but then I saw you're from socal. Take $15 to your LBS. Buy gloves. Get gel if you want. Done.

I just bought some Rapha's because I'm tired of replacing $30 dollar gloves every 4 months.

Prolly another week until they get here - but when they do - I'll let you know how they feel.

wow. rapha has some pretty nice stuff. i like that jacket. anyone else got some rapha gear?

I have the jacket. Great for really cold/rain. It is my mainstay for commuting six month of the year. Doesn't breathe well enough from May-September though, but that is what vests or wool are for anyway, and now they do make a lightweight version, and a rain slicker too...They make real high quality, well engineered stuff.

Oh, and I just bought a pair of Specialized "deflect" gloves that I really like. Great for the East Coast weather we're having now.

I know what you mean I bought a pair of "Pearl Izumi GEL-lite" gloves a couple months back, they seemed pretty nice when I first got them, but those thing startes falling apart pretty quickly. Now (only about 3 or 4 months later) they look like I stole 'em off a hobo.

Damn, those Rapha's look nice. How much did you pay.

I'm looking forward to your review. I've been wanting a pair of the Grand Tour goves for a long time, but could never pull the trigger. I think I'm ready now, with the new frame due in about 3 months.

Don't buy Cannondale's 3-Season glove; nice palm grip and padding, but have started to fall apart after 2 months. Also I don't know what the 3rd season is as they're not very wind/cold resistant for the winter and too thick for the summer.

Should be "3-Seasons of occasional riding in southern california when it's not raining Glove"

wow, i want one of those hats, they ship to the US?

I've just been checking out all Rapha's merch. It's amazing looking stuff, but expen$$ive.

i really like my pearl izumi gel-lites. they're lightly padded, super comfy and keep your hands cool.

From Rapha glove description:

Hand stitched with double stitching at key wear points, road-specific pad design using 2mm pads from army sniper gloves, towelling wipe-back, knuckle holes, Velcro fastener, stamped Rapha logo

From Army sniper gloves**********? Snipers need padding, too**********

Menard's has a great set of tight-fitting leather/nylon stretchy stuff "outdoor work gloves" that are cut at the knuckles and work just as well as any $30 bike gloves for $6

If they're good enough for army snipers they're good enough for me.

odyssey bmx gloves. warm and they have good grip and padding. i've been riding my fixed gear and my bmx with these gloves and they've lasted 2 years.

get some $6 performance gloves and take them back every time they fall apart. They will do it.

+1.. I have been drooling over those for some time. Keep us posted!!

I was using these Harbinger wrist wrap weight training gloves for a while. they were very tough, comefortable, and provided excelent wrist support. The only problem, is that they didn't breath at all, so my hands smelled like feet at the end of a ride.

I have been using mechanix gloves for several years now .
Absolutly bomb proof.
https://www.mechanix.com

Nice. Do you recommend a spesific pair? ther's quite a lot to choose from.

Anyone use gloves with some tack/grip?