Gloves

[jmark]

Well, as it gets cooler, this is an issue. I have some leather gloves, not really marketed for motorcycling, that I've always liked. Wearing them today, I found it clumsy to do the turn signals, etc. They are too bulky and loose.

Do you guys have any thoughts about gloves? I'm thinking maybe they should be skin tight. But maybe this is just a fact of life with leather gloves and riding...

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[Thekerrick]

You just have to try to find a good pair of all season or winter gloves that fit well. Don't trust that your hands are the same size in all companies.

My Olympic Wind-Tex gloves are a small, while my summer gloves are a large. No reason to risk safety for a clumsy glove. Just keep searching you will find a pair that fits like a glove :)

[Captain Kilowatt]

I prefer my gloves not to be too tight. If they are they have a tendency to make my fingers go to sleep. Of course I don't like them too big and loose either for the reasons you stated. I do prefer to use motorcycle gloves though instead of regular gloves. I had a fantastic pair of "driving gloves" that were extremely comfortable and worked great. I accidentally got one caught on a thorn while riding near some brush and it ripped a hole in the end of the finger. Good Grief. They were expensive too. I sure was glad I didn't take a "spill" in them. No telling what my hands would have looked like rubbing asphalt for some distance.

[chuckyj95]

I have a pair of these for cold and rain. I started to wear them then it got hot again. The two times I wore them my hands were so sweety I had wrinks on my fingers in 45 degre weather. The grip on the fingers is so good I kept stalling because the cluch leaver would not slid through my fingers on take off it would just dump.

http://www.mooseracing.com/catalog.jsp?level1=1144&level2=1161&product_group_id=5253

[RonK]

I have a pair of these for cold and rain. I started to wear them then it got hot again. The two times I wore them my hands were so sweety I had wrinks on my fingers in 45 degre weather. The grip on the fingers is so good I kept stalling because the cluch leaver would not slid through my fingers on take off it would just dump.

http://www.mooseracing.com/catalog.jsp?level1=1144&level2=1161&product_group_id=5253
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Wait a minute here, Chucky. If they make your hands "sweety" and give you "wrinks", plus make you dump your "cluch leaver" when you don't want to, then why would we want those gloves?

Heck, I've got some Caiman brand (http://www.caimangloves.com/pages/1956) gloves that look like those that I wear that are pretty good down to about 40 degrees. They aren't waterproof, but they dry out okay in the wind. They have ribbed knuckles and reinforced grip areas. Plus, they only cost about $14.00 at Ranch Rite Hardware/Western Implement stores (and probably sold other places you can locate on the internet). I've used some on my ATV for about 7,000 miles and they're just starting to wear holes.

Works for me!

RonK :)

[chuckyj95]

I was getting swetty because it was warm during the day and cold at night. I was trying to stress how warm they are. I have not dumped the cluch with them in a long time I had to get use to the sticky of the fingers.