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All the department stores carry them. They are usually in huge bins or covering entire walls at this time of the year ... and they range in price from <$10, like the ones in my photo, for a decent pair of mitts that have kept my hands warm down to some pretty bitterly cold temps ..... or perhaps a little bit more (like ~$20) for sheepskin lined leather mitts.

Here is an interesting idea. These are called wrist huggers. You could wear something like this over a thinner fleece glove or cycling glove to maintain dexterity and then add a glove shell to block the wind.

This would keep your palm and wrist area very warm as they would have a thicker amount of insulation and would keep the pulse area very warm. But because the fingers would have fewer layers more dexterity is maintained. These can be used under heavy ski glove or mittens also.

http://www.boothuggers.com/WristHuggers.html

Boots...just boots will do in this sort of whether (and of course 1 or 2 pairs of wool socks)

What a great idea esp if your jacket's sleeves are just too short! Just cut the toe off a sport sock.

Several years ago I found a pair of snowmobile gloves at BJ's or Sam's that have a water resistant shell and removable fleece liner. The glove has a small zippered pocket on the top just above the knuckle area that contains a tethered swatch used to clean your glasses. The thumb is partially covered with soft material designed for dripping noses. Not only are their warm and functional; they only cost me $7.00. :)

Anyone found mitt shells in the US?

You have Walmart down there right?

What about K-Mart?

And isn't there a place called Target?

Any department store should have winter gear!

Thanks,

Ordered these. Will report back.

http://www.altrec.com/shop/detail/25848/

You can lead a horse to water, but that dosen't keep his hoof's warm?

I use pogies, down to negative temps with a light glove underneath. My pogies are made to be used with bar ends or not. Heavier gloves if necessary, but normally just a light insulated pair of gloves. You are not attached to the bike with pogies, your hands slip in and out easily. I just bought some for my kid, if I felt there was a chance he couldn't get out of them safely, I would not have gotten him any. We always carry the instant heat packs anyway, you never know when you may need to slip one down the front of your sock (to warm the feet) or whatever. They can be placed inside the pogie, as someone pointed out before. My pogies are wind/water proof and fleece lined. They aren't too bad either for spring/fall riding when it's raining, worn without any gloves, keep my hands drying and warmer than any glove I have every purchases. I have never really found a "waterproof" glove, even neoprene or whatever they are that claim to be waterproof (but even wet, my hands stayed warm with them - in cool autumn weather).

Here are the gloves that work for me:
weather that's hot/warm: cycling half-gloves
cool: light fleece liner gloves
cooler (in the 30s): Outdoor Research Gripper Gloves (outside layer is great for gripping brakes & shifters)
even cooler (upper 20s to lower 30s): OR Gripper Gloves inside nylon shells
cold (mid-twenties & below): Pearl Izumi Inferno Glove (these are the three-finger version, between the AmFib and Lobster styles)*

*I wear a size Large for the Pearls, which leaves me some room. The wiggle room is good because on icy days it lets me wear a roller-blade type hard plastic wrist protectors inside each glove. I went down on ice three times last winter and that was enough. Instinct is to stick your arm out to catch/protect yourself. Last time that happened my hand was banged up for a month, so I started using those wrist guards and they work great! I've gone down once on ice this winter and the only that was injured was my pride.

[QUOTE=ViperZ]Ski gloves work best :)

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...and you can't go wrong with The North Face!

Fantastically warm. Nice and light too. Breathed well enough also.

I have a nice pair of Burton mittens, but even with the knuckle zipper open my hands are too hot.

I'm currently in search of a mid-weight glove. What I've been using is an old pair of winter motorcycle gloves, but I made the mistake of washing them and now the liner is forever bunching around my fingers.

+1 for lobster gloves of some sort. The best of both worlds (warmth of mittens, dexterity of gloves... almost).

When it's really cold, I wear Nashbar polypro gloves as my base layer, followed by army surplus sniper gloves, followed by army surplus mittens. I'll try to find pictures of the army surplus stuff.

The mittens are incredibly bulky, but I use barend shifters on my commuter so I really don't need fingers for much of anything. Truth be told, if it's cold enough for me to wear the army surplus mittens, I probably won't be shifting much anyhow.

[edit: found a picture of the sniper gloves, still looking for the surplus mittens.]

http://www.armysurpluswarehouse.com/...gmitinsert.JPG

This is the closest picture I could find of the mittens I use. Mine are pretty different looking, but you get the idea.

http://www.omahas.com/catalog/images.../CLG1654lg.jpg

personally i've never had trouble with cold wrists, it's the tips of my thumb and fingers that get cold!

however, i was recently given a pair of lobster gloves from MEC and they've kept my hands toasty to the point of sweating... :rolleyes:

for +0 c temps i'm still very happy with the skiing gloves i purchased at MEC a few years ago. they aren't padded, but have a nice leather palms and long wrists, made of light-weight wind-stopper material and cheaper too.

I got these 180s running gloves last year. I love them because they aren't bulky and work in a wide range of temps, from 0F to 45F. the protective overmitt can be tucked away. They are just the right amount of warmth for commuting and active sports. They changed the palm material for this year, so don't know how it affects grip and warmth. Worth checking out though, and can be found at Dick's Sporting Goods and Sports Authority...

I have some new balance running gloves that are pretty thin and I've been using those inside some Trek Lobster Gloves. When it gets down below 25, however, my fingertips still get pretty numb. I'm guessing that the Trek Lobster gloves are garbage compared to some of the other lobster style gloves. I think that's how it probably goes for most of their clothing.

I ended up buying some Seirus All Weather Gloves but haven't tried them out on the bike yet.
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...V34948772_.jpg

Again, this is one of these things where individual needs will be all over the map.

My hands stay pretty warm, and I can get away with just thin flleece gloves under a one-size-too-big pair of motoX gloves down to about -12C.

Colder and I go with MEC snowboard gloves, and my hands are always too warm in those.

^^^ Agreed!

-12C this morning, and I rode to work wearing my TNF Windstopper gloves, which are very thin by winter glove standards. No problems....

http://static.backcountry.com/images...1220/PWGBK.jpg


In Autumn when we were road riding in -9C weather, I was still using my Fox full finger summer gloves for +3 hour, 100km rides.

Shown here during a summer rain commute to work.
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/8735/com1xl3.jpg

Maybe I'll pay the price when I'm old and have arthritis :(

I use a pair of REI Ridgecrest mittens. Get them big because the last thing you want is a too tight mitten. At 10 above F my thumbs will get chilly but I can pull them into the mitten and warm them up in no time.

I use a pair of those as my gloves for temps into the high 20s. If it gets colder than that or if it's pretty windy I slide those into a pair of OR Snowline mittens using them as a "liner". A couple of other posters above have also referenced these. If you do decide to try these keep in mind they are huge. I'm putting my Seirus gloves into a small sized Snowline mitten. I find the Seirus gloves are warm enough to use by themselves unlike a true liner glove but preserve enough dexterity that you can fiddle with zippers, attach panniers, etc.

The one issue I find with the mittens is that they make handling your brakes more difficult. You can either grasp the handlebars or rest your hand on the brake but not both at the same time. In traffic I tend to just accept the slight bit of instability and ride with my hand on the front brake and the other hand grasping the handlebar firmly.

http://a1072.g.akamai.net/f/1072/206...dia/887369.jpg

I use lobster claws down to 30 or so; I've worn the same plus military-surplus wool liners down to zero and been comfortable (except for my poor frozen toesies)