[Closed] Why would you wear gloves in Summer?

I forgot some the other day and rode bare-handed. Fortunately I have ESI grips and it wasn't too bad.

I like close fitting leather palmed gloves; they feel nice.

[i]If you fall off- if you put your hand out your going break something, graze? How many times do you fall off with your hand out? I see them as just another layer/something to faff and remember.

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If you end up in hospital, remember nurses don't wipe ar5e5 anymore, so probably best that amongst your injuries are not shreded hands.

^^^100%

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Hora, you really have excelled here 🙄

Nah, its all good.
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Oh, i'd forgotten one of the main uses for gloves other than cushioning: to soak/wipe snot or sweat from your face, I need this in summer and winter, and that flannel patch soaks up loads.

Even after you've done a 'tramps hanky', you need to wipe up the strings...

Even small cuts etc on hands are a pain in the arris. I know a young downhiller kid who insists on riding gloveless, he keeps missing race runs because he's hurt his hands but apparently it "makes him faster" 😆

Mate who has ridden gloveless for a good while fell at Afan on Saturday and ended up with pretty much identical injuries to Gofasterstripes... Ruined the rest of his ride and cut short his next day at BPW. Stinkers... Hes on about wearing gloves now. Silly Sausage.

Having lost the skin on both palms during a crash when I was 16, I always wear gloves. Being without use of your hands as a 16 year old lad is the worst thing that can happen to your sex life.

To complete your lurid mismatched dayglo enduro specific outfit?

I wear them as I don't want to leave finger prints behind.

To go with my snatch and heels dahhhling.

Went out on sunday with no gloves (<--unusually) (as usual-->) crashed and now have very sore hands and knuckles and knees and arse and thigh and ankle and elbow. Luckily I've seen a 'body glove' advertised on Anne Summers so I'll be riding in that from now on.

When I fall I tuck in. I dont hands-out as I know it can cause the dreaded collar-bone break. So I guess its personal-preference v how you tend to fall (our where you ride). Post-damaging my knee I started wearing knee pads. Soon stopped that though and I hate wearing a helmet as it is- so thats the only concession IMO that I'll make.

Still... last night on a road ride I left the helmet at home and cars seemed to give me a wider berth than usual.

Because I prefer to. For many of the reasons already cited.

Back to your bridge.

Si

[i]What I do notice is the feeling of freedom and not having to remove a glove everytime I need to stop/get something[/i]

If your idea of 'freedom' is riding without gloves then you need to broaden your horizons. 🙂

Why would you have to remove gloves 'to stop/get something' - what sort of gloves are you wearing.

I don't wear them commuting but usually wear them on longer ride.

Well the one thing I know about the falls that caused damage is that they didn't go according to plan.

Gary_M - Member

If your idea of 'freedom' is riding without gloves then you need to broaden your horizons.

Hora's gloves:

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If your idea of 'freedom' is riding without gloves then you need to broaden your horizons

My idea of freedom is riding without pads, pack, etc etc. Minimal as possible, like when we were kids riding lazily along.

In the Peaks too many people are padded up and recently I see full facers more and more.

Oury grips with skin = mental grip/feel IMO too.

My idea of freedom is riding without pads, pack,

I always ride without pads & pack but never without gloves off road, more for their excellent wiping sweaty brow properties than anything else though

Just admit it Hora...you're becoming a fashion biker and want to be like the rad youngs kids 'shredding' with no gloves. The trails will come alive with the extra feel.

I have never posted on a hora thread before, but does he always just post a stream of bike related conciousness, or is there sometimes something worth looking into?

My idea of freedom is riding without pads, pack, etc etc. Minimal as possible, like when we were kids riding lazily along.

In the Peaks too many people are padded up and recently I see full facers more and more.

Oury grips with skin = mental grip/feel IMO too.

I know someone who always wears a full facer because they don't want to buy a full set of dental implants - again. And falling and bashing your knee (or anything) possibly means time off the bike, so the padded up brigade might simply be doing all they can to ensure they can keep riding. Seems quite a good idea for someone who likes riding - rather than collecting frames.

Glubs wick away sweat, help you grip the bars, and probably give you a full down-to-the-bone worth of sliding before you even reach your real skin. And any half decent motocross glub off ebay has venting and materials that won't give hot hands.

My hands get sweaty which makes it difficult to grip unless I frequently rub my hands in the dirt to soak the sweat.

[i]Is Pistonheads offline today ?[/i]

When I fall I tuck in. I dont hands-out as I know it can cause the dreaded collar-bone break.

You must be falling in slow-mo, I don't remember ever having thinking time between realising I was coming off and hitting the deck.

Even if you KNOW you are going to go over the bars? That IS like slow-mo.

Oh, i'd forgotten one of the main uses for gloves other than cushioning: to soak/wipe snot or sweat from your face, I need this in summer and winter, and that flannel patch soaks up loads.

The line of padding on your helmet helps on this and snot etc? Its more of a winter thing. A quick side-ways blast from each nostril once works for me.

Hora your constant silly questions that mean you get attention are tedious as ****, even i have grown out of the constant attention seeking and internet approval!!

[i]does he always just post a stream of bike related conciousness[/i] or is there sometimes something worth looking into?[/i]

'conciousness' is going a bit far. 'half-baked b0ll0cks' is closer

[i]is there sometimes something worth looking into?[/i]

rarely, if ever.

But we love him 🙂

[i]In the Peaks too many people are padded up and recently I see full facers more and more.[/i]

Can people not wear what they want in 'the Peaks'?

It's like having a lumping great child bumping around the forum... amusing [i]at times[/i]

And I used to have the same conversations with my kids, until they saw sense.

"Put your gloves on"

"Why?"

"Because if you fall off with gloves on you probably won't put holes in your hands... and that means you'll be able to get up and get back on your bike again."

"Oh... OK"

Same with knee pads. That just needs the one fall with them on and to point out "If you hadn't been wearing pads would you be jumping straight back on your bike now?"

Had a mountain rescue call out the other day to help pick up a lad on a local club ride. Gone over the bars and managed to lacerate/deglove his leg. An almost identical injury to one I had nearly 5 years ago. I was chatting to him about it as we loaded him into the ambulance and he asked "How quickly did your's heal up? I'm going to Tenerife in 8 days!"... "Umm.. no you're not."

I wasn't going to make the knee pad point with him just then. I never ride without mine 😉

do you ride everywhere sooooo sloooowly that you notice what people are wearing?

Even if you KNOW you are going to go over the bars? That IS like slow-mo.

Hora, I don't see how I can use my helmet pads to wipe away snot from my nose or sweat from my face? I also stream snot when I exercise (year round - I blame it on having a big nose), and as I said before, a quick blast doesn't always get rid of the streamers...

Anyway, i've contributed way more than I should have done to a fairly pointless thread!

It's just trolling isn't it?

rob jackson - Member
Hora your constant silly questions that mean you get attention are tedious as ****, even i have grown out of the constant attention seeking and internet approval!!

Isn't there yet another 1,000th frame and/or fork combo of 2014 for you to buy over in the classifieds?

robinlaidlaw - even when I came off at speed and buggered my hip I still thought 'oh I'm not going to land this square' feeling before I landed.

I forgot the STW'er demographic is an ageing one. Grumpy too. Munrobiker don't like/don't post. Simple really. Or do you speak (as with some ^) purely for the purpose of typing back? A crap topic dies a sudden death unless its fed by idiots and genuine posters on topic ney?.

🙂

robinlaidlaw - even when I came off at speed and buggered my hip I still thought 'oh I'm not going to land this square' feeling before I landed.

Hora just because i am not poor like you and can buy frames and forks 🙂

Someone told me you had a boot full of forks once. I LOL'd when I heard that 🙂

Why ask a question and constantly discount all the replies, guess you know better 😀

hora - Member
Even if you KNOW you are going to go over the bars? That IS like slow-mo.

My last one was "oh shit!" and by the time that thought went through my brain, I was on the deck already. Given OTB into a drop, and having had a very nasty accident landing on my head before, I guess instinct put my hands out. I didn't decide to do that, it just happened. Fractured two fingers.

But back to the original point, regardless of landing on the things and potential of stripping layers of skin off, like others it's the combination of sweaty palms and what becomes sticky rubber on the grips. It's just less comfortable. Plus my gloves have a small amount of padding in the palms.

I generally won't even go fingerless in the summer, as a) it's roadie-gay 😛 , and b) Back when I used to wear them I often managed to catch my fingers on brambles and stuff and end up with cuts on the exposed fingers.

cultsdave - Member
Why wear clothes, in summer?

Just seems daft. Have clothes ever saved you? Thorns would just go straight through and they seem more faff than what benefit they can give you in warm weather. Why clad yourself/take yourself away from the lovely breeze running past your genitals?

someone came up with the perfect answer for Hora early on and now its all just bickering

Hora, I wrote this especially for people like you: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2013/01/15/glove-is-the-answer/

In case I fall off or smash my hand into a tree. Both of these things I have done in the summer and have been glad of gloves.

As for clothes of course they too reduce injury in the event of a crash.

I find I get longer out of my grips with gloves on too.

I.E: When the grip is worn down fairly smoothly, gloves still grip it fine whereas my sweaty hand does not.

Sorry if I'm missing something here I'm a relative newbie on here(few years) is Hora genuine and all you guys are friends ? Or is he the new Dylan type(remember this guy getting flamed regularly) ?

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really puts a downer on quite a lot of things.
That's why I'm quite happy to keep a pair of gloves on to wipe away sweat, gravel, snot, blood etc...