Full finger all year round whether it's road or MTB as have been known to fall off occasionally!! :O)
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Do you really all wear long fingered gloves all the time?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Full fingered for mountain biking, short ones for the road bike (in summer). I always make sure they have good pads on the palm after two different offs resulting in all the padding being removed as I slid along the ground... I would hate that to have been my flesh!
My main problem is the skin on my hands stays so white that I have sunburnt the tops of my hands before.
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I sweat like ghandi's flip flop, need to wear gloves to hold on!!
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Only when its cold, which isn't often here in sunny SA
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Rigid - either road or MTB - if its warm enough - it has to be mitts. Generally they have much better padding than long fingered gloves.
Short travel forks, <100mm - it matters not
Long travel forks, has to be long fingers with NO PADDING. I find that you loose a certain amount of feel with padded gloves and suspension. That could be just in my head.
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in short---yep!
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Yep always, I really don't like anything else.
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Yes. Why would I only want to protect part of my hands?
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Fingerless mitts unless it's reet chilly, but never ever gloveless
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Yup, full fingered all the time. I don't get hot hands. I've got some mitts, but I can't wipe as much sweat off my forehead with them, its much easier to use the back of my fingers, and sunglasses smeared with sweat irritate me much more than slightly hot hands.
Only time I've taken them off was halfway riding up Ventoux, and by them my sunnies looked like they'd been coated in spunk anyway.
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Full fingered all the time off road; thin summer ones for most of the year (above 5c) as my hands get hot unless riding somewhere exposed and non technical. My fingers get too sweaty for mitts and compromise grip which isn't good when one finger braking.
I do mitts on the road bike in the summer where sweaty hands isn't a problem due to the wind.Posted 1 year ago # -
glenh - Member
Yes. Why would I only want to protect part of my hands?
or any of them - I thought you said you found it too embarassing to ever fall off?
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Take mine off as soon as it warms up.
I like having a suntan, particularly on my hands, so they get exposed to the sun as much as possible.
White-hand syndrome just looks odd IMO.
Posted 1 year ago #
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