White hands.....

SpainSte
SpainSte Posts: 181
edited April 2013 in Road buying advice
Hi all,

Summer is here in Spain however I've encountered a problem....

I'm getting tan lines in the usual places, tops of the arms and legs where shorts start etc. When I'm riding I feel like I have to wear gloves, or mitts, for comfort sake and because I feel strangely unnatural without them - although this has led tot he problem of white hands....

So I now have very brown arms and legs, with bright white hands.

I currently use the gloves below and also fingerless ones from Decathlon.

http://www.assos.com/en/19/singleProduc ... 12&var=208


My question is, does anyone know of any gloves/mitts etc that allow the suns rays to penetrate and tan the skin beneath?

Comments

  • pkripper
    pkripper Posts: 652
    take up mime.

    or, some of the old school mesh backed ones may help - rapha used to do some I think
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Nobody has invented tan mitts afaik :lol

    Crochet or ‘retro’ leather mitts with ‘D’ shape cutaway might give you a more interesting tan pattern.

    By the end of last summer I had a cracking tan that went down to my wrist, then started again at my knuckes :-)
  • doug5_10
    doug5_10 Posts: 465
    Another badge of honour, show them off with pride along with panda eyes and helmet strap triangle tan!
    Edinburgh Revolution Curve
    http://app.strava.com/athletes/1920048
  • SpainSte
    SpainSte Posts: 181
    Thanks chaps, just checked out the Rapha ones as recommended above.....I'm thinking that £100 on some summer fingerless gloves may be a tad excessive however :wink:

    If anyone else does happen to know of any other solutions that may work then please let me know, as it is, I shall have to put up with the Missus laughing at my bright white hands :D
  • ooermissus
    ooermissus Posts: 811
    Fake tan? Then they could be orange.
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    I refuse to provide advice to a post that is clearly aimed at sticking 2 fingers up the the great UK weather. :-)

    If only that were a problem over here. Our problem is usually white everything as there is no sun.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • nferrar
    nferrar Posts: 2,511
    There are some tan-through cycling gloves out there such as http://www.roeckl.de/en/products/biking ... ove/isera/ (I was on a training camp a couple of years back and I'm sure someone there claimed their Castelli gloves were tan through) but it's a weird badge of honour thing to have white hands and brown finger tips with a brown spot by your thumb :p
  • philwint
    philwint Posts: 763
    smidsy wrote:
    I refuse to provide advice to a post that is clearly aimed at sticking 2 fingers up the the great UK weather. :-)

    If only that were a problem over here. Our problem is usually white everything as there is no sun.

    I beg to differ!

    In Yorkshire and I currently have visible tan lines on my wrists from the weekends riding. I suspect not as dramatic as the Spanish equivalent though :roll:
    Phil

    www.philwinterbourne.co.uk
  • SpainSte
    SpainSte Posts: 181
    nferrar wrote:
    There are some tan-through cycling gloves out there such as http://www.roeckl.de/en/products/biking ... ove/isera/ (I was on a training camp a couple of years back and I'm sure someone there claimed their Castelli gloves were tan through) but it's a weird badge of honour thing to have white hands and brown finger tips with a brown spot by your thumb :p


    Brilliant, just what I was looking for!! Thanks!!

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