Full finger padded gloves and winter gloves

rohloff-rich

Interested to know who uses what with regard to spring/autumn conditions full finger gloves and warmer full winter gloves on road bikes?

Coming from an MTB background it seems difficult finding full finger gloves that have padding in the right places (i.e. for riding on the hoods) - are we just looking in the wrong places or do full finger road gloves not exist?!

Are padded liners available as an alternative?

And do winter gloves have specific road padding, or are they generally better padded through being 'winterised'?!

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spasypaddy

my autumn gloves are the ones im using now:
These

im going to need some winter ones as well so any recommendations?

JustRidecp

Spesh do a long fingered version of their gel padded track mitts that have rediculous amounts of padding in the right places.

BG Long Finger

Protection from the elements with these will be minimal though.

Warmer option might be these

Winter Spesh

They dont offer as much padding though, only a pad over the ulnar nerve.

An option for when it gets really cold is to use your summer track mitts under a pair of lobster mitts. Will keep you warm and certainly draw a few looks!

The Claw!

Eat My Dust

In the winter I use a pair of Berghaus (sp?) gloves that my wife bought in mountaineering shop. I think they are liners of some sort. They are thin enough that I can wear my normal cycling gloves over the top. Last winter I can't remember ever having cold hands. Great combo!

CiderMartin

I have recently purchased a very good pair of Gore gloves, cost about £20. Excellent, padding in the correct places for riding with drop bars. They are black in colour with subtle red stitching with a leather look.

rohloff-rich

CiderMartin wrote:

I have recently purchased a very good pair of Gore gloves, cost about £20. Excellent, padding in the correct places for riding with drop bars. They are black in colour with subtle red stitching with a leather look.

Where from CiderMartin? Sound like they could be worth a look

knedlicky

I bought Autumn gloves in Lidl and Winter gloves in Aldi and am happy with both. In terms of thickness, the Autumn ones are a bit like cross-country skiing gloves or cheap goalkeeper's gloves, but the Winter ones are markedly thicker, and better cut than the Autumn ones for using the fingers on the brake/shift levers (no disturbing seams)

I suppose in looks and in characteristics they are a bit like the Specialized models which JustRidecp mentions above, except the Lidl Autumn gloves aren’t perhaps so insulated as the Spez ones appear to be from the website photo, while the Aldi Winter gloves don't have nylon waterproofing on their outside.

Though both have leather in the palm area, neither has any more padding in the grip area than normal gloves do (when you discount the extra padding due to insulation), but both feel perfectly okay. And neither are so boringly grey-black as the Spez models - the Autumn gloves are royal blue with black&white edging, the Winter gloves royal red with black edging

From experience, I'd guess my Autumn gloves are good down to perceived temperatures (i.e. real temperature plus wind chill factor) of 5-10 degrees F below freezing and the Winter ones down to perceived temperatures of 25 degrees F below freezing. The Winter ones say that they each have 40 grams of Thinsulate - maybe you can find a specification for other brands which gives this info, for comparison.

The Lidl and Aldi gloves of course also cost a lot less than Specialized gloves do - the Spez Autumn gloves in the weblink strike me as particularly dear.
Maybe wait a while and see if Lidl and/or Aldi have Autumn/Winter cycling gloves on sale again this year?

CiderMartin

I bought my gloves from Patridges cycles at Kennford near Exeter. I have done a quick Wiggle search and they do not appear to stock them. Typically the gloves have no model number on them.