Not a fleece, its just a LS tech top and the only layer I was wearing on the top half.
I always wear gloves now after a riding buddy thought he’d be trick and activate the lock on his Manitou forks while still riding.
So he reaches down to the bottom of the RH fork leg to twiddle the lock-out, and BANG !, his hand goes into the wheel and the most violent over-the-bars I’ve ever seen happens in an instant.
Man, he went down hard into that asphalt.
It made enough of a mess of his hand as it was. Had he not been wearing gloves the injury would have been mahoosively worse and bloodier.
From that day forward, I’ve always worn gloves, no matter what the weather or the riding.
Those particular items are summer gloves anyway and quite breezy.
;-)