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Europe is currently freezing over and my Mavic Aksium Thermo AW16 gloves aren't cutting it.
What gloves work well for -10C? Riding fast in windy Berlin, not got great circulation either!
Pogies for anything below zero. Providing you are on flat bars of course.
I use Hotpogs with the fleecy liner with thin thermal glove down to -10c.
Pogies on the bars and you can use ordinary gloves. Cheap and effective.
Not recommended for fashion victims though. 🙂
Montane Pertex here
Thanks! I'm a fashion victim but not enough of one to freeze my fingers off, still i'd prefer gloves, but if not possible, which pogies? Two value options incl shipping:
https://www.hotpog.co.uk/products/classic-pogies?variant=1896556527660 GBP 38
http://eng.uraltour.com/uraltour-winter-bike-mittens-poggy/ GBP 26.8
I just bought these, and wore them in the snow storm the other day. They represented the best damned £12 I ever spent!
If you consider them, though, be sure to order at least a size up. I have normal man hands, and I go the XL. They fit perfectly, but I wouldn't want them any smaller.
Silk liners under sealskins have been very good for me this week. Today was a balmy 1C, so no liner required
Cheapo winter gloves from Wilkinsons with a silk liner if it's that cold. But down to just below freezing I use Endura waterproof gloves.
I have some Aldi Lobster style "ProCycling" gloves. They are too warm for all conditions I have encountered. I tried them out on Thursday morning during the red warning snow carry-on. The result was sweaty hands.
The Aldi lobster gloves worked well for me recently with Dafeet e-touch underneath, down to -6C, with wind chill feeling like -12C
Try neoprene 3-finger divers gloves, I have some that are 5mm thick and I just can't get cold hands in the wet around freezing point, cold 5-7hr rides are no issue in those. Confident they'd be OK at -10 in snow.
Depending on your controls lobster gloves or mittens work better than gloves. i have a cheap pair from Lidl or Aldi and my hands where hot at -5.
I expect they would be good to -10 but add a silk liner and definitely. Decathlon probably do something similar for cheap.
P.s. waves from Hanover
I've come to realise that I suffer colder hands than most. Some folk on here swear by gloves I've since bought and found not much better.
I've got Gore Windstoppers that are supposed to be the best winter gloves. They aren't. I use them for autumn and spring.
I've got sealskinz lobster gloves which are pretty great on the road bike but cold does for in after an hour. Useless on MTB - too bulky.
I've got the oft recommended Galibier gloves. Better than Gore, but I still suffer.
When it's really cold I wear a pair of rubber gloves (mechanic style) under my Galibier. Helps a little but isn't super comfy.
Also tried silk and merino liners. Didn't really help much.
Not Gloves and not test to -10 but I have trying these.
Too hot with gloves for January's bivvy trip but great without gloves for the nursery run this week. Not been tested in heavy rain - I fear they may become funnels.
I have real issues keeping my fingertips pain free in zero to sub-zero temperatures. My current gloves and liners (Gore) do a reasonable job at keeping my hands warm buy my fingertips are agony. I've been looking at the lobster style gloves too but would prefer standard gloves if there's anything up to the job.
Two things I'd avoid in cold or wet conditions - gloves that have individual fingers (rather than a 3-finger/trigger finger/lobster gloves or pogies if they work with your bars) and 'waterproof' gloves that use material that can soak up water. The waterproof fabrics can be overcome by grip pressure and they'll wet out from the cuff end eventually so while they can be warm for a few hours, sooner or later the materials they use for insulation get wet and very cold, very quickly with no way back.
There are some gloves that use a non-permeable plastic layer, someone here mentioned them a while back - Pro / Shimano I think. That might work better than WP/breathable fabric layer but anything that can soak up water is flawed for cold wet riding imo.
Lobster or trigger gloves are better as the surface area's reduced, your fingers have less contact with a cold fabric and more contact with each other. I like neoprene as it's much more tactile than a thicker padded fabric glove as well as being less absorbent.
I use these https://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/shop/army-surplus-uk/soldier-95-clothing/mittens-extreme-cold-weather-521167.html?pid=1403356&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgomsv63S2QIVb7ftCh2b2AMxEAQYAiABEgJdUvD_BwE when it gets below zero. Cheap and very effective.
Pogies are better than any glove.
When it's not quite cold enough for them I use a set of
Uvex unilite thermal things. £8 or so from Amazon and all the grip you could need. They almost waterproof as they're dipped in rubber or something but they're way better than any sealskins and the like.
I have Raynaud's and I'm yet to find anything that will keep my hands even vaguely comfortable in cold weather on the bike. Even just having my hands not excruciatingly painful would be nice.
I've tried numerous different gloves, including decent (Mountain Equipment) winter mountaineering gloves with silk liners, and my hands still get cold.
I've not seen pogies before and have just bought some of the Hot Pogs linked above so will see how they fare.
Interestingly though: I run more than cycle, and I wear much thinner gloves when I'm running - and usually have toasty hands.
I'm assuming it's the continual swinging / movement of my hands that keeps them warm when running, so I've started regularly swinging my arms about when I'm able to on the bike which seems to increase the bloodflow and keep my hands a little bit warmer.
I keep on meaning to get a pair of something like these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PVC-GLOVES-PHULAX-WINTER-FLEECE-LINED-ICE-G630W-FISHERMAN-CONSTRUCTION-/272815652110
Not used them for cycling, but we used them in the Southern Ocean and they were great, and I notice a lot of the ESF ski instructors use them when the weather turns to ming here in the alps, as well as some friends using them for biking.
My fingers are mashed after frostbite a couple of times, and some Raynauds thing I think too.
The lovely thing about Pogies is you can wear very thin or even no gloves at all. Which makes getting on and off, out of the house, using your phone, whatever, a lot easier. Plus you can use all the controls easily.
Re running, it's the swinging of the arms but also the lack of compression of any insulation, and there's no conduction path e.g through the grips/ brake levers.
I struggle with colder hands than a lot of people too, Always a tricky trade off with thickness re insulation and feel. I think eastcoastmike makes a significant point though and I have a conviction that carbon bars, and especially brake levers help- had an old set of Hayes with carbon levers and I'm sure my index fingers at least were warmer. More pricey than (most) gloves though! Also warmer core (and arms) helps of course. I use Rab Baltoros (thick lined soft shell with leather palm). Given up on waterproof for cycling as waterproof layer always seems to be on the inside.
Another sufferer of cold hands and feet. The discovery of silk sock and glove liners has made once miserable rides enjoyable again without adding bulk. A very cheap addition to winter riding kit if you get the Jasmine ones from Amazon.