Gloves?

[TwoWheelsDC]

@rcannon100 67969 wrote:

What gloves do you like for winter weather? Do you really need Moose Mitts in DC? Last year I rode with mittens inside my bike gloves. Plenty good but think I would like something a bit better this year. How cold can Pearl Izumi Men’s Cyclone Glove go? Comments say like 40 degrees – but I wear my mittens down to 40.[/Quote]

I have a pair of Cyclones… I’d say 40 is a stretch, but 45-50 would be okay for short rides. Slip a pair of fleece gloves over them though, and they’d be warm enough for sub-freezing temps. I must say though, that they have not held up well. My “real”cold weather gloves are Sugoi Firewalls, which have been fine into the upper 20s and are super comfortable.

[consularrider]

I agree with TwoWheelDC, I’ve been using the PI Cylones for two years. The reflective material on the thumbs pretty much wore off during my second winter using them and one of the neoprene cuffs got a tear by the velcro closure. Still, I liked them enough that I got a new pair last spring at a steep discount (still have and use the old ones too). The first time I used them was on a ten mile evening ride to and from a Christmas holiday party, about 45°F for the first part, closer to 40°F for the ride home. My fingers were cold by the time I got home. I’m in between sizes medium and large and bought my Cyclones large, so I use glove liners under them rather than something over them. For the 40s, I like wool and have two different weights, in the thirties I use the Bontrager Race termal gloves that I got at the Freezing Saddles party as liners. That worked well for last Satuday’s 27°F ride start and I kept that set up through the first 40 miles of my ride.

I got Bar Mitts for my flat bar bikes several years ago and will use them when the temperatures drop below 30°F. My issue with those is the fit with my brake/shift setup. Last year I got Moose Mitts for my road bike (SRAM doubletap). I only used them on a few rides since it was a fairly warm winter overall. The downside was that they seemed to catch the wind. I do like using both types of mitts when the temperatures are in the 20s because I can go with a lighter glove which makes shifting easier.

[cyclingfool]

I have a pair of Pearl Izumi full finger gloves that serve me well down to around freezing (though I do tend to be a bit more tolerant of cold than most). For subfreezing temperatures, I wear a pair of wool blend glove liners that I picked up for cheap on Amazon under my full fingered gloves. This combination has been enough to keep me comfortable throughout the winter over the last couple years, and I bike commute every day.

If things were to get real gnarly, I have a pair of leather gloves I could squeeze over everything to block out all the wind and hold all the body heat, though I haven’t had to resort to that drastic of a measure with the combination described above.

[culimerc]

I’ve got a pair of PI gloves that I use with or without liners depending on how cold it is. I also have a pair of mid weight sky gloves that I use occasionally. And for once winter does actually settle in, I put MooseMitts on the commuter. I like them because I can use a very thin gloves on even the coldest days. I like the feel of the bars and bike overall with this set up versus a big clunky overstuffed deep winter glove.

[ronwalf]

@rcannon100 67969 wrote:

What gloves do you like for winter weather?

Cheapskate here: I use leather work gloves (no cloth back) and glove liners. They worked fine even on the coldest days last year. This year I upgraded to wool glove liners.

I have a set of Performance Brand cycling specific winter gloves, but they are cold and clammy outside their very specific temperature range (40-49F). I have a new set this year that I picked up on clearance for $10, but it hasn’t gotten cold enough to try them out.

[americancyclo]

I use the cyclones down to about 45 degrees, colder than that and I switch to my snowboarding gloves.

Before the cyclones, I had a pair of
[h=1]Manzella Silkweight WindStopper Gloves[/h]those worked down to about 45 as well, and were super lightweight. before those, I had a pair of

Louis Garneau COURSE ATTACK GLOVES

which i really liked since they have a longer cuff and keep my wrists covered when stretched out on the bike. The PI and Manzella gloves weren’t as good with that, and I’ll often get a small gap between my jacket cuffs and my gloves. That’s usually where arm warmers come in.

I have moose mitts and those go on when the temps are under 30. I’ve found that the moose mitts will buy me an extra 10-15 degrees of warmth on top of my gloves, so at 30 degrees, I can still wear my 45 degree gloves with the moose mitts.

[consularrider]

@americancyclo 68033 wrote:

… which i really liked since they have a longer cuff and keep my wrists covered when stretched out on the bike. The PI and Manzella gloves weren’t as good with that, and I’ll often get a small gap between my jacket cuffs and my gloves. That’s usually where arm warmers come in.

If you were like me with short arms, this would never be an issue.

[mstone]

I posted these recently on another thread: http://www.rei.com/product/856177/novara-stratos-tech-compatible-bike-gloves-mens

I wear those down into the 10s or 20s. In the 40s I use something more like the cyclone (an older model).

edit to add: I nearly got frostbite within a couple of miles with the thin PI gloves, which is what prompted me to get the big ones. wind chill on a bike can be vicious.

[jabberwocky]

I did a set of Gore Radiator lobster mitt gloves for several years. They were good for the 40-20 degree temp range. Below 20 (which isn’t that common), I switched to my ancient Burton snowboarding gloves, which are bulky but super warm.

The Gores are showing their age though; the insulation is ragged and they have a few holes in the palms. Last winter I switched to a set of moose mitts, and found them to work very well at a wide temp range. So now I just wear my normal Home Depot carpenter gloves and toss the moose mitts on when it gets too cold.

[Rootchopper]

Down to 45 degrees I use either full fingered bike gloves, or lobster gloves, or even full fingered glove liners inside my regular ol’ cycling gloves. Below that I use mittens, plain old garden variety mittens. I have a pair with reinforced palms that I rode on the GPR with you. My fingers were totally comfy for the entire ride. When it gets below freezing, I wear the liners inside my mittens. When it gets below 10 degrees I wear a Honda.

[hozn]

@americancyclo 68033 wrote:

which i really liked since they have a longer cuff and keep my wrists covered when stretched out on the bike. The PI and Manzella gloves weren’t as good with that, and I’ll often get a small gap between my jacket cuffs and my gloves. That’s usually where arm warmers come in.

Yeah, I hate that problem. My LG jacket is too short (many are). I guess I have orangutan arms or something. Note that the Novara eVent cycling jacket has very long arms — I love that about it. I also find that those little wrist bands — e.g. that runners use to store keys — work great for dealing with that gap.

In an effort to find things that keep my hands warm, I have accumulated lots of different gloves.

Down to ~45F I have some LG Windtex gloves (http://www.competitivecyclist.com/louis-garneau-windtex-eco-flex-2-glove-mens) that work well. They claim to be waterproof, but this is a joke. They keep hands warm (and maybe dry?) through very light drizzle/mist, but anything beyond that they wave the white flag. I really like the palm vents that LG has on their gloves, though; those vents make it possible to wear these in warmer weather without feeling too gross. I have somehow accumulated two pair of PI Cyclones. I wear the hi-viz edition sometimes, when it’s in the low 50s, but on the whole they are inferior in quality, fit, and comfort to the LG gloves.

Between 35 and 45F I use my Gore Cross (Gore-Tex) gloves. These are pretty warm offer water protection (don’t survive downpours, but work fine for light rain).

Between 25F and 35F I have some Sugoi heavily insulated gloves that work pretty well. They better; they were like $60 (lesson learned: don’t buy gloves from the LBS). Also I have an LG 3-in-one glove (i.e. liner glove + outer glove which has an insulated liner) that are nice, but they are bulky and it’s easy to turn the outer glove liner inside out when taking them off (which is necessary to do anything that requires dexterity due to their bulkiness). And there is almost nothing more frustrating than trying to force numb hands into the outer glove to fix the liner.

Below ~25F I use Lizardskin Blizzard gloves. I’m not sure if those are still sold, but those are really warm and waterproof. Around here those are comfortable for about as cold as it gets (so I haven’t used them below ~10F).

I bought some clearance Cannondale winter gloves I’ll try this winter. They look like they’ll be in the 25-35 temp range.

Those temperature ranges only apply for me up to rides of, say, 90 minutes. Beyond that things can start to change — e.g. I want warmer gloves. I learned this the hard way on a long ride last year when temps stayed in low to mid 30s. My 25-35 gloves that are very comfortable on an hour commute were insufficient after hour 2 or 3.

[FFX_Hinterlands]

Bar-mitts. I put them on in November and take them off in March. I wear either no gloves (45 to 55 degrees), light gloves (25 to 45 degrees) or midweight gloves for under 25 degrees.

[rpiretti]

I wear winter golf gloves. They grip (obviously) and are thin but provide warmth down to 40ish. When colder I throw on oversized fleece gloves over the golf gloves. I was a golf pro at one point so I found this out on accident. The best cycling gear is sometimes not marketed for bikes and is much cheaper!

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[lordofthemark]

Bumping, because some of the REI products linked above are discontinued, and because, this morning.

[kingman762]

Windstopper. This is the anwser, in my view, to all cold weather questions. I use Gore Bikewear Alp-X windstopper gloves down to about 20 degrees. Below that I put on a pair of old Pearl Izumi insulated gloves (which I don’t like veyr much but still work). the gore bikewear gloves are great.

Also, REI seems to have a number of gore bikewear items on clearance http://www.rei.com/search?query=gore+bikewear.

Just buy something with windstopper. Your hands will thank you.

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