Just seems daft. Have gloves 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 breeze/feeling relaxed etc?
Road bike- I can see why you wear mitts- for the extra cushioning on your palm as the bike is bloody rigid but off road?
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.
I find I get a lot more bramble scratches and nettle stings without gloves.
Don't bother on the road though.
I had sweaty hands and find I can grip easier with gloves.
Stop thorns ripping my hands to bits and my hands sweat, a lot, and it can get slippy. Gives a little bit of protection from gravel rash should I have a dismount
Absorb sweat, cushion hands if your that way inclined, prevent crash injuries like gravel rash etc. stop branches doing as much damage as the smash into your hands, protect you from nettles and much more. Or are you just getting down with the no glovz kidz?
I wear them because the insurance policy for my Beaverbrooks hand modelling contract says I have to.
Get down on any sort of surface, gravel, Tarmac, rocks etc and gloves will do a much better job of protecting your hands than... Err... No gloves.
Cuts on knees and arms is fine, you can still ride, not a lot you can do with all the skin missing from your palms.
Personally I wear them so that I can grip the bars better than I can with sweaty palms. They also help prevent blisters and chaffing.
I try and avoid them all year round, apart from when it's really cold and wet.
Oh and racing. Some people still get funny about racing without gloves.
I ride lots of singletrack through harsh vegetation. Without gloves I'd probably be down to the bone in about 20 minutes (especially since going to slightly wider bars).
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?
I had sweaty hands and find I can grip easier with gloves.
This
...plus, you never know when you might get a bit of trailside murdering in.
Buy proper grips. I rode 4hours yesterday and didn't notice any issues. What I do notice is the feeling of freedom and not having to remove a glove everytime I need to stop/get something.
Nettles/bushes etc- when I've ridden through close stuff before I've found that I've gotten nettle stings on my calfs but NOT on my forearms and the crazy-scratches up my forearms but nothing on my hands.
Hora which one are you ?
not having to remove a glove everytime I need to stop/get something.
Why would you need to take your gloves off?
Buy proper grips. I rode 4hours yesterday and didn't notice any issues. What I do notice is the feeling of freedom and not having to remove a glove everytime I need to stop/get something.
How about proper nice gloves! Can't think of anything I can't do with my gloves on.
Can we change Hora from 'member' to 'troll' please?
First it was 3 pages of a large bike being too big before he put a picture of his saddle on his bars now its gloves.
blatant trolling 😆
[i]the feeling of freedom [/i]
I'm expecting the 'ooooohhhhh Bodyform' music any time now.
It's gloves to prtoect your hands whilst riding and when/if you fall off ffs, not a strait jacket.
Picking gravel and other debris out of your palms with tweezers gets very old very quickly. I'd prefer not to wear them but thye do a job well enough for the pros to outweigh the cons.
Nettles/bushes etc- when I've ridden through close stuff before I've found that I've gotten nettle stings on my calfs but NOT on my forearms and the crazy-scratches up my forearms but nothing on my hands.
Oh. That's odd. I must be wrong then. 🙄
Buy proper grips. I rode 4hours yesterday and didn't notice any issues.
I've rode for almost 30 years without gloves until last year when I finally tried some out and havent looked back. Horses for courses. be happy with what works for you and forget about what works for anyone else. More important things to worry about sunshine.
Top thread. Question asked and lots of sensible answers given. OP still doesn't get it.
Just to add my add my tuppence worth, I forgot my gloves last week on my local loop and got covered in nettle stings and bramble scratches that I'd never had before when wearing gloves.
I rode 4hours yesterday and didn't notice any issues
I assume this wasn't the road bike, then?
A bit of protection for the backs of the hands and I don't like the way grips feel with bare hands. That and the fact that I sweat like the proverbial big lass.
Cuts on knees and arms is fine, you can still ride, not a lot you can do with all the skin missing from your palms.
This. Early on in my off road riding I came off on a gravel fire road (flatish/straightish/****tish) and completely shredded the palms of a pair of gloves but my hands were fine. Lots of gravel rash on arms and legs. I've not ridden without them since.
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Did you wear a kilt and enjoy the waft of freedom in the undercarriage sir?
Can't we all just get along?
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Why indeed would anyone do something you don't? Inspired.
to stop fingerprints?
Have gloves ever saved you?
Yes.
Why clad yourself/take yourself away from the lovely breeze running past your genitals?
But think how stinky your saddle would get with no shorts between it and your bum!
I wear gloves and have done since I learnt the hard way - even a thin bit of material does go a long way to protecting your palms from gravel rash etc. I prefer pretty thin gloves and they still offer protection from gravel rash and I can still get stuff out of my camelbak etc.
So when I fend you off I don't catch herpes.
Have gloves ever saved me? No. Not unless you count nettles, brambles etc.
Why would I wear them? In the height of summer, I sometimes don't. However if I'm doing a fairly big ride I've got some very nice Endura ones which are very lightweight and breathable which a) don't really feel like I've got gloves on; b) protects me from the inevitable nettles/brambles etc at this time of year and c) don't let my hands get sweaty/grips get sweaty/lose grip.
Do you wear them when you're rollerblading?
I don't wear gloves to keep my hands warm.
sweaty hand syndrome, that is why.
I don't find not wearing gloves any cooler in summer than wearing gloves.
It's the same reason I wear full finger gloves on the road bike. The cooling effect of having uncovered finger tips is not noticeable.
^^ thismore bramble scratches and nettle stings without gloves
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To protect my palms when I come off. How often do I fall with a hand out? Most of the time, it's an inbuilt human panic reflex like blinking to keep stuff out of your eyes or gripping when you fall, you can't stop yourself doing it if you truly don't see the crash coming.
When I was getting into cycling, string backed leather mitts were what marked you out as a "proper" cyclist (along with the hairnet crash helmet for proper racers)
I still wear proper leather mitts as they make me feel superior to all the Johnny come latelys.
But think how stinky your saddle would get with no shorts between it and your bum!
I thnk you'll find a nice leather saddle helps here
"Road bike- I can see why you wear mitts- for the extra cushioning on your palm as the bike is bloody rigid"
If your bike is correctly set up then you shouldn't need any cushioning at all.
If your bike is correctly set up
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This is Hora we're talking about
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because otherwise all the holes in my (now deceased) gloves would be holes in my hands, and that would make me sad.
Gravel rash on the hands is the only reason for me
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.
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Hora, you really have excelled here 🙄
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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 - MemberIf your idea of 'freedom' is riding without gloves then you need to broaden your horizons.
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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.
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.
It is at low speed, but I learnt how not to do that and I haven't had one of those in a long, long time. I've been ejected over the front at high speed from catching a hidden stump or hole hard enough that my arms couldn't stop me and that happens too fast to think about too. Mostly I come off the low side on corners though and that's pretty much an instant "Ouch, I'm on the ground" thing.
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?.
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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.
It's possible we ride differently 🙂