Looking for good rain gloves (25 - 40 degrees F)

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain. Temp range is from 25
degrees F to as warm as 40 degrees F.

I am currently using thesehttp://www.outdoorresearch.com/site/w_s_gripper_gloves.html, but I must say
they are disappointing. I bought them because I generally like OR products..
But these gloves are not very warm, and they are definitely not waterproof..
And pricey, to boot.

I need XL, black.

I got some Pearl Izumi Amphibs on sale that I like. They are a little
bulky but comfortable. -- Jay Beattie.

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain.

Jay,
I like these shells, worn over gloves or mittens, from REI
<http://www.rei.com/product/739825>

Best,
Larry

LF said:

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain.

If you can pry yourself away from buying something that says
"bicycling" on the label, wool gloves will do the job. Wool is one of
the few materials that keeps you warm even when wet.

For Winter riding and running, I like the mittens that flip back to
give you half fingers. They give you some flexibility to have your
fingers exposed as needed but covered most of the time. Look for them
in a ski shop.

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LF said:

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain.

Jay,
I like these shells, worn over gloves or mittens, from REI
<http://www.rei.com/product/739825>

Best,
Larry

You don't need rain gloves below 32 F. :P

Locally (Vancouver) after years of struggling, I bought some neoprene
cycling/paddling gloves. That's what MEC calls them, having created them
as paddling gloves, and adding a reflective patch to the wrist when
cyclists kept buying them.

They're just neoprene five-fingered gloves. They tend to trap sweat, and
they tend to smell funny (though they're easy to clean).

And they're otherwise perfect for cold wet rides. My hands don't really
get wet, and my hands stay warm. Invincibly comfortable, even in wet
three-hour rides in the middle of winter.

There is probably some Arctic-storm-oriented lobster mitten that is even
better in cold conditions, but these have reasonable control feel and
are good enough for my needs.

They come out around the start of cyclocross season, and go away
sometime in May. And only on the warmest, driest days of winter do I
consider any other glove.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain. Temp range is from 25
degrees F to as warm as 40 degrees F.

I am currently using thesehttp://www.outdoorresearch.com/site/w_s_gripper_gloves.html, but I must say
they are disappointing. I bought them because I generally like OR products..
But these gloves are not very warm, and they are definitely not waterproof..
And pricey, to boot.

I need XL, black.

Thanks - J.

I've used neoprene fishing gloves. Your hands get wet from sweat, but
they are 100% windproof and very warm. Black too. Mine had a nice high
cuff and were super cheap.

Joseph

I also use neoprene gloves found on a shoulder of road one day. They
are also great for rinsing cycling clothes with ice cold campground
water.

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain. Temp range is from 25
degrees F to as warm as 40 degrees F.

I am currently using thesehttp://www.outdoorresearch.com/site/w_s_gripper_gloves.html, but I must say
they are disappointing. I bought them because I generally like OR products..
But these gloves are not very warm, and they are definitely not waterproof..
And pricey, to boot.

I need XL, black.

Thanks - J.

campmor.com sells ski gloves cheaply about now.
try polyester glove liners

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain. Temp range is from 25
degrees F to as warm as 40 degrees F.

I am currently using thesehttp://www.outdoorresearch.com/site/w_s_gripper_gloves.html, but I must say
they are disappointing. I bought them because I generally like OR products.
But these gloves are not very warm, and they are definitely not waterproof.
And pricey, to boot.

I need XL, black.

$60 plus sales tax buys you Goretex skiing gloves.
Beats any "winter" bicycling gloves.
Works well below 60F and higher than that if you are off a bicycle.

I try to stay out of cold rain because it is the least enjoyable for
me. I don't mind cold and I don't mind rain but the two together make
for a lot of misery.

Regular winter gloves can be problematic because they generally have
too many seams and will leak. Even if they started out as waterproof
the barrier will break down with use. This is a particular problem
with goretex which doesn't bond all that well to the fabric. What I
like to use is a pair of thin fleece gloves as liners. Then I add some
large rubber gloves like those used for dishwashing or handling
chemicals. This gives an unbeatable waterproof layer. This combination
works OK in the 40's. For colder temperatures I would add some
overmitts like the Nashbar lobster claw style for additional wind
protection. Even more warmth can be found with the chemical hand
warmers if that isn't enough.

Squat'n Dive said:

$60 plus sales tax buys you Goretex skiing gloves.
Beats any "winter" bicycling gloves.
Works well below 60F and higher than that if you are off a bicycle.

Who wears gloves over 60f?

LF said:

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain.

Jay,
I like these shells, worn over gloves or mittens, from REI
<http://www.rei.com/product/739825>

Best,
Larry

I use another REI product. These are overmitts- no insulation.

http://www.rei.com/product/725077

I bought them to use as a windproof shell over some insulated mittens. I
used them at 25°F. The worked wonderfully. Yesterday, when we had
torrential rain in the Northeast, I used them while shoveling and
clearing storm drains. My hands stayed warm & dry.

Buy them big to go over other mittens.

BC
übermitt

still just me said:

Quoted message said:

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain.

If you can pry yourself away from buying something that says
"bicycling" on the label, wool gloves will do the job. Wool is one of
the few materials that keeps you warm even when wet.

I second wool gloves. I spent years and lots of money trying out
different kinds of winter and wet weather gloves (neoprene, etc).
Everything gave me a horrible rash and/or wasn't comforable. Until I
tried wool.

I ride in them all winter long, here in wet Vancouver. I put a pair of
fingerless leather palmed gloves on top of the wool ones for better
grip.

Yes the gloves do soak through in heavy rain but my hands still stay
warm. That's one of the nice properties of wool.

Oh, and wool gloves are cheap. $10 for a decent pair.

--
K.

Lang may your lum reek.

still just me said:

Squat'n Dive said:

$60 plus sales tax buys you Goretex skiing gloves.
Beats any "winter" bicycling gloves.
Works well below 60F and higher than that if you are off a bicycle.

Who wears gloves over 60f?

Er, people who want to protect their hands from abrasion?

Gloves are also useful in hot weather, as they provide a much better
grip than sweaty hand on things like twist-shifters and brake levers.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

Tom Sherman said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

$60 plus sales tax buys you Goretex skiing gloves.
Beats any "winter" bicycling gloves.
Works well below 60F and higher than that if you are off a bicycle.

Who wears gloves over 60f?

Er, people who want to protect their hands from abrasion?

Gloves are also useful in hot weather, as they provide a much better
grip than sweaty hand on things like twist-shifters and brake levers.

Read the previous post. I'm not objecting to thin biking gloves in
warm weather... I'm questioning why the PP is wearing Goretex gloves
over 60F during non-biking activities.

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain. Temp range is from 25
degrees F to as warm as 40 degrees F.

I am currently using thesehttp://www.outdoorresearch.com/site/w_s_gripper_gloves.html, but I must say
they are disappointing. I bought them because I generally like OR products.
But these gloves are not very warm, and they are definitely not waterproof.
And pricey, to boot.

I need XL, black.

Thanks - J.

Scuba gloves are very comfortable

On Feb 15, 7:56 am, Tom Sherman <[email hidden]>

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still just me said:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:12:11 -0800 (PST), "Squat'n Dive"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

$60 plus sales tax buys you Goretex skiing gloves.
Beats any "winter" bicycling gloves.
Works well below 60F and higher than that if you are off a bicycle.

Quoted message said:

Who wears gloves over 60f?

Er, people who want to protect their hands from abrasion?

Yes. I don't ever cycle without gloves. One reason is that I am
lightskinned and don't want the malignant melanoma flying around to
settle on the backs of my hands, the other is fear of abrasion.

My bikes are parked in a hallway next to a glove chest. However I have
nothing but contempt for the shortcomings of cycling-specific gloves.
If you want to see why, look at the miniscule sweatpad on most;
clearly fashion-driven rather than intended to be used. A real cyclist
uses a sweatband around his head and wrings it out at appropriate
intervals, I say.

For the spring and the autumn (American Fall, what a silly way to
describe a season to a cyclist!) I use Mikasa workman's gloves.
They're yellow and made tough with glass fibre, and have rubber
grippers on the palm. Expensive at sports stores, cheaper at hardware
stores, cheapest at garden centres. But in heavy rain the Mikasa get
wet through and they're not much chop in really cold weather. In the
high summer I wear lightweight cotton gardening gloves with rubber
pips on the palms to keep the sun off me and give sweaty palms grip on
the controls. The rubber pips are necessary on rotary gear controls
and desirable on brake levers.

I have a lot of experience of Goretex gear for hillwalkers but Goretex
gloves for bikers are a nonstarter, and for regular commuting simply a
stupid suggestion. A piece of Goretex clothing depends for its
waterproofing on the nap of the nylon. The Gore part of it is a
microlayer on the inside which lets perspiration out and partially
stops ingress of water. Goretex thus needs a lot of looking after,
constant washing and drying to keep up the nap, and spraying with
chemical wetproofing. The problem with Goretex gloves is worst of all,
because the necessary taping of the seams, the obvious place for
ingress of water, makes them either awkward or, if skimped for shape,
unsuited for purpose.

Instead in the winter if it is cold I wear thinsulate gloves and a
peaked knitted cap (bought in Milan, apparently very fashionable among
the shop girls and secretaries there) under my helmet. That keeps the
cold out.

If it is also wet, I wear wool-lined leather gloves. If it is really
sleeting and heading for freezing (very rarely below here), I wear
woolen "liners" and old-fashioned leather motorbike gauntlets. Thus
the three purposes of keeping warm, keeping the wind off and keeping
the water out are split between two sets of gloves, wool inside, thick
leather outside. That works.

What would probably work even better for the longrange foul-weather
commuter than heavy leather gauntlets, which might take a long time to
soak through but will take equally long to dry, is woolen gloves with
simple kitchen rubber gloves over them: wind cheating, dry and warm.

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Gloves are also useful in hot weather, as they provide a much better
grip than sweaty hand on things like twist-shifters and brake levers.

Precisely. See above. But "cycling" gloves are almost universally made
of plastic, hot and sweaty, and designed to pose in rather than for
real use. Cotton garden gloves with rubbers pips on the palms work
well and are comfortable to wear. If you want to be fashionable, get
ones with flowers printed on the cotton. Buy the cheapest, lightest
weight ones by the dozen at the pound shop (nickel and dime store) and
throw them away after a couple of weeks' use rather than washing them,
or use them for oily work on the bike.

Quoted message said:

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

Unfortunately not. Earlier this week I thought the spring was here and
I put in 45km in four days (my weekly average target over a year is
only 50 klicks a week) but today I dressed up and found a cycling
buddy sitting in her driveway, waiting for me, tears already running
down her cheeks. We called in at the library to get warm and then came
straight home; I was never even warm enough to activate the sender to
my heart rate monitor.

Something that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is that it is as
important to keep your head warm as your hands. Bell sells a winter
liner kit for their Metro helmet; it blocks off the vents and provides
earflaps. One might also note that the Metro and the similar Citi
helmets from Bell look better on riders of city bikes than pointyhead
racing helmets. I have the Citi in tasteful titanium grey (it was the
colour my pet mail order vendor, Chain Reaction, had on sale in my
size); if I commuted I would buy either helmet in traffic orange or
bright yellow for additional safety rather than save the few bucks on
a sale colour. The Citi can take the swing-mirror accessory -- most
useful -- but not the winter liner for which only the Metro has
fixings; the Metro also has a place to fit rear light that the Citi
misses out on.

Andre Jute
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/BICYCLE%20%26%20CYCLING.html

Jay said:

I am looking for good gloves for riding in the rain. Temp range is from 25
degrees F to as warm as 40 degrees F.

I am currently using these
http://www.outdoorresearch.com/site/w_s_gripper_gloves.html , but I must say
they are disappointing. I bought them because I generally like OR products.
But these gloves are not very warm, and they are definitely not waterproof.
And pricey, to boot.

I need XL, black.

Thanks - J.

Good question, one that I haven't been able to successfully solve
completely. I've tried paddling (kayak) gloves (not warm enough), full
neoprene gloves (industrial ice handling) (OK, but not real comfortable,
narrow temp range, tend to be too cold or too hot), waterproof shells
over gloves (probably the best, but the ones I have tend to be too hot
if riding hard).

I like to layer gloves as (unlike my feet) my hands start out cold and
get warmer as I ride, so I can peel off the outers when I need to. Cold
rain is tough to layer for since both layers need to be waterproof. If
it's in the 40's I just wear synthetic fleece gloves and let them get
wet, they absorb less water than anything else that's not waterproof and
they're cheap. For the 30's I usually switch to thinsulate gloves and
trust that the insulation will get wet at about the same rate my hands
warm up & balance each other out.

Cold wet riding is the hardest thing to dress for, especially if you are
riding at high intensity or are out all day in it. Wet insulation is
much less effective than dry and the stuff that keeps the wet out also
tends to lock the wet (sweat) in.

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still just me said:

Tom Sherman said:

Quoted message said:

> $60 plus sales tax buys you Goretex skiing gloves. Beats any
> "winter" bicycling gloves. Works well below 60F and higher than
> that if you are off a bicycle.

Who wears gloves over 60f?

Er, people who want to protect their hands from abrasion?

Gloves are also useful in hot weather, as they provide a much better
grip than sweaty hand on things like twist-shifters and brake
levers.

Read the previous post. I'm not objecting to thin biking gloves in
warm weather... I'm questioning why the PP is wearing Goretex gloves
over 60F during non-biking activities.

Poor circulation, Reynaud's phenomenon, one of several skin conditions?

Wool gloves, covered with something like the Outdoor Research Rain Claw
which is basically a GoreTex shell.