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I always take gloves on rides (mitts take up barely any room in a pocket) mostly wear them, although on hot days I sometimes enjoy the wind through my fingers.
I am conscious of the protection gloves provide in the event of coming off but the primary reason I wear them is to reduce nerve compression, which ime can be significant.
Yeah, gloves on every ride, as above, another layer to get through in a crash before your skin and also handy for nettles, brash etc at this time of year
Depends 🤷♂️
I like to wear a lightweight long sleeve jersey when off road. Climb with gloves off and sleeves pulled up. Gloves on, sleeves pulled down before descending. Definitely helps keep the my arms and hands getting so savaged by the foliage.
I do have maybe a dozen pairs of gloves (not just riding gloves) in various states of wear and types.
I'm bad at riding without eye protection. 😖
No gloves
Tacky grips (Renthal super tacky push ons)
= lighter grip needed
Less strain on forearm (hand) muscles.
Tempted to get some longer summer gloves at this time of year. My fingers are full of thorns currently, and 800mm bars don't help that problem.
I only wear them if it's really cold or raining. I don't like the "squirmy" feeling of the material between the glove and grip, especially if it bunches up a bit, don't find it very confidence inspiring. Maybe I've just had bad gloves.
I rarely ride with gloves .I preferr the feel and don't like gloves bunching under my palms
I wear them to save my skin in case of crashes. Started doing at the same time as I got knee and elbow pads.
On a 'dress for the slide, not the ride' basis, it's fully clothed hands for me too.
If and/or when you do go down, you'll more often than not go down hands first.
Mitts in summer, full-finger in varying degrees the rest of the time - you really do need your hands if you can keep them.
Always med dem hanskarna. I feels so wrong to go out on the bike without them, to the extent that, when I forgot them the other day when I went to the office, even the 5 minute commute was full of nagging feeling.
I always jump in gloves too. Gloves give grip and mean that the sweat on your hands still allows you to grip things on the plane. I cannot see why people would jump without them.
I like riding without them but 9/10 wear gloves as the hands tend to be the 1st point of contact if I bin it and offer some protection from nettles ect. Thin Madison ones do the job for me this time of year.
Rub hands in dust before a run.
Had to do this for Stages 2/3/4 at Tiverton last weekend as i'd lost a glove... Must admit, i didn't like it.
recently started riding without gloves. Much prefer it. Just feel a bit more connected to the bike (some sort of phycological placebo effect).
And obviously you look much cooler/radder with no gloves!
I suspect when the winter comes i will have them back on tho.
Couldn't imagine riding glove less, or could and the thought of crashing with no gloves makes me shudder.
Only on the mtb....
Use full gloves on the road/gravel if it's cold. Don't feel the need in summer.
Always full finger gloves on the mtb. Because crashes happen and gloves are an easy way to avoid grazes / cuts etc. plus if you go through brambles / ferns / stingers etc then you’ll be glad of them.
Same for bmx.
Road bike it’s full finger when cold / half finger mitts when warm enough.
Gloveless. And push-on grips ideally.
Why? Better feel.
Risky business though.
Gloves and knee pads year round. Suffered the consequences of not wearing both and have therefore worn them ever since. Rarely have long sleeves and always wear shorts. Balance it out.