The local LBS is trying to get me to buy gloves

[John_Kane]

ReptilesBlade wrote:
> Are these $30 gloves really worth it? And also is a rack any good without
> painers?

Gloves are worth while for any distance cycling (say over 5-6 km). I
don't know if $30 gloves are worth that much.

A rack is useful with or without panniers. Carry a couple of bungee
cords and you can do wonders.

And at the simpliest level you can use the bike to carry something even
if you have to walk and balance something on the rack. I did that a
month or so ago when I ran into a hotel cook who had been sent on an
emergency run 3-4 blocks to the grocery store for bottled water. He
could not get a taxi so we balanced 4 cases of water on the bike and
walked to the hotel. Not fast but a lot easier than carrying the stuff.

 

[Claire Petersky]

"ReptilesBlade" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> First of all thank you for all the responses; you all have been most
> helpful. I have decided to get the gloves if the LBS can find an extra
> small or childs size that can fit me. The smalls were just a little too
> large for my thumb still (a side effect of my medical condition, I am a
> little stunted at 23 years old, 5 foot 9 inches and thus I have very small
> almost child sized hands).


If a child's size is really what you need, I have a pair sitting around
here. I have been unsuccessful giving them away to a child at our bike club,
and my kids have outgrown the pair. I'd cheerfully mail them to you.

--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
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[max]

In article <[email protected]>,
"gds" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Interesting idea. Do you have references that support this? Does "good"
> mean expensive? Are you saying that expensive gloves are safer? I can
> imagine more comfortable, I can imagine longer wearing. I really can't
> imagine safer.

Did you even read what you responded to??

In this context GOOD means functionally adequate, and does not address not
cost. Good as opposed to bad. Not Good as opposed to inexpensive. Good
and (in)expensive are not even on the same axis of evaluation.

I wrote, and you snipped:

>> $30 sounds more high-end. Inexpensive gloves work well, too. I use
>> a pair of cheap string-back gloves; in the winter i add leather
>> shells outside those.

Note the use of the words I USE INEXPENSIVE and CHEAP.

I hope this answers any other insubstantive questions you might have.

..max

 

[ReptilesBlade]

"Claire Petersky" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

>
> "ReptilesBlade" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> First of all thank you for all the responses; you all have been most
>> helpful. I have decided to get the gloves if the LBS can find an extra
>> small or childs size that can fit me. The smalls were just a little too
>> large for my thumb still (a side effect of my medical condition, I am a
>> little stunted at 23 years old, 5 foot 9 inches and thus I have very
>> small almost child sized hands).
>
>
> If a child's size is really what you need, I have a pair sitting around
> here. I have been unsuccessful giving them away to a child at our bike
> club, and my kids have outgrown the pair. I'd cheerfully mail them to
> you.
>

If you would be willing to do that I would really appreciate it. Just send
me an e-mail and I'll give you my address and everything.
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[gds]

OK! So then my substantive question is how you define good and bad and
how fit "sliding" into that defintion.
My reaction was simple

The OP question had to do with $30 gloves as opposed to lesser cost
models. So the basic question had to do with cost and value.

I found your reference not clear- at least to me, so please note that I
ask if you mean that good and expensive are equated. Please take your
own advice and read before responding.

I have never heard of rating cycling gloves on their ability to slide
during a fall. That doesn't mean that such a rating doesn't exist,
simply that I have never heard of it. So, please explain.

 

[what does THIS button do?]

gds wrote:
> OK! So then my substantive question is how you define good and bad and
> how fit "sliding" into that defintion.
> My reaction was simple
>
> The OP question had to do with $30 gloves as opposed to lesser cost
> models. So the basic question had to do with cost and value.
>
> I found your reference not clear- at least to me, so please note that I
> ask if you mean that good and expensive are equated. Please take your
> own advice and read before responding.
>
> I have never heard of rating cycling gloves on their ability to slide
> during a fall. That doesn't mean that such a rating doesn't exist,
> simply that I have never heard of it. So, please explain.

No.

 

[wafflycat]

"Claire Petersky" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

>
> I wouldn't ride without gloves. Any ride over 50 miles, and I really
> benefit from gel gloves. The big problem is that different gloves have
> different sorts of padding, and knowing which ones might work for you is
> difficult without riding with them for a while. A friend sent me a bunch
> of her nearly-new reject gloves. Although they didn't fit me (she's about
> 5' and I'm 9 inches taller, with proportionately larger hands), we found
> some that worked for my daughter. That was great -- as you note, they can
> be expensive.
>

I'm the same, I've always got a pair of gloves on when I'm cycling. In the
summer it's fingerless ones with various types of padding in the palm. In
winter I wear full-fingered ones. I've got waterproof ones, fleece ones,
leather ones...

> You don't need panniers to benefit from a rack. You can have a trunk, for
> example, on your rack. I have been known to bungee down boxes on my rack,
> too, which works well when dragging home a lot of paperwork from the
> office.
>

My tourer has a pannier rack fitted. It doesn't always have panniers on it.
Sometimes I have a traditional saddlebag where the base of it rests on the
rack. I've also got a rigid plastic lockable box which is what is most often
on it. I'm also a fan of bungee cords

Cheers, helen s




> --
> Warm Regards,
>
> Claire Petersky
> Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
> See the books I've set free at:
> http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky
>

 

[NFN Smith]

ReptilesBlade wrote:

> Are these $30 gloves really worth it?

Gloves, yes, $30 is may be questionable.

If I'm out on the bike for more than about 30 minutes, the space between
the bones in the heels of my hands starts getting _very_ sore. I won't
get on my bike without a pair of gloves.

As others have noted in this thread, there's different kinds of gloves.
I'm currently using gel gloves and like them. Depending on your hands
and your needs, other styles may be appropriate. For years, I used the
old classic leather palm and cotton crotched gloves, and did fine by
them, although the leather tended to get stiff if I got it wet.

However, I find the leather ones to be sturdier if I reach down to brush
off pavement debris (especially thorns and glass) of the tires on the
occasions stuff gets picked up.

Smith