Please wear gloves when you ride, even on CaBi. Trust me, if you ride enough you will have a minor (or not so minor) fall and the gloves will protect your hands against road rash or possibly worse. I learned this the hard way a couple of years ago when commuting to work one beautiful morning. I remembered when riding that I hadn’t put my gloves on but didn’t want to stop to get them out of my bag. 10 minutes later a little snot of a kid decided it would be funny to jump out in front of me at the last minute. Well long story short, I did a slow-mo splat and gouged out a chunk of skin out of my palm thanks to the pebbly nature of the trail around the Jefferson Memorial. If I’d had my gloves on I would have walked away unscathed.
Always wear gloves.
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