Winter gloves recommendations

[bikeworkshop]

Glove liners can be counter productive
- you've replaced some Insulated volume with a fabric layer.
if your hands sweat a little then the glove liners become thermally conductive.

Ultimately you need volume, not density. Most high level insulations are very light because there's little material but a lot of trapped air - the material serves to restrict airflow, hence heat conduction.

 

[novocaine]

Glove liners can be counter productive
- you've replaced some Insulated volume with a fabric layer.
if your hands sweat a little then the glove liners become thermally conductive.

Ultimately you need volume, not density. Most high level insulations are very light because there's little material but a lot of trapped air - the material serves to restrict airflow, hence heat conduction.

that's if the outer shell is to tight.
a good liner should be crazy thin (I used to use silk liners) such that you wind up with 2 layers of trapped warm air, once against your skin with just enough flow through the glove to provide a second, slightly cooler but still warm air layer. paired with a glove that has a fleece liner they are great.

I wouldn't use nitrile or rubber gloves, they won't allow air passage between the two layers and you just wind up with sweaty, wet hands that then get really cold.

 

[Betsy]

I’ve been wearing a silk liner with lambs wool gloves over the top, beaver pelt, shearling mid layer, down mitts with a gore shell and one o’them massive foam #1 fingers from the American football..

 

[bikeworkshop]

I’ve been wearing a silk liner with lambs wool gloves over the top, beaver pelt, shearling mid layer, down mitts with a gore shell and one o’them massive foam #1 fingers from the American football..

all you are missing is cut down litre plastic milk bottles as handshields- or do you have them already?

 

[minor_LEGEND]

I actually chucked a pair of nitrile gloves inside my thermals this morning, seemed to help.

On a 3mile commute sweat or moisture should not be a problem. I wouldn't contemplate it on anything serious. Cutting out the wind-chill was the aim.

 

[benjabbi]

Sounds like some of you realy suffer! I tend to go the @bikeworkshop way, merino baselayer, jersey, fleece layer and my trusty Pace Winteractive, keeping my core warm plus a merino skullcap. Then 100% Briskers are fine down to about 0ºC, lower than that Endura Strikes come out. Merino's great for insulation even when wet. I'm considering some merino liners and a size bigger Briskers to replace the Strikes which are a bit bulky.

 

[Joe_Rides]

I suffer with raynauds quite badly. Numb hands i can live with, but that pain when they start warming up is horrendous, enough to put one off going for a ride for sure.

Last couple of weeks it's been pretty cold, minus 4, minus 2 etc.

My tactic this time round was:

1. Thin 'silver thread' gloves

2. Disposable hand warmer (they stay warm from 7am when I leave for work, and are still warm for the commute home at 5pm)

3. A larger pair of gloves which are quite baggy but warm (can't remember the brand)

4. Neoprene pogies (drop bar ones, not insulated at all, but keep the wind chill down. They were not expensive, £15ish delivered)

The above, combined with thermal leggings underneath my trusty ronhill tracksters, thermal top, a base layer, 100% wool jumper, waterproof coat. A buff over my neck, and another under my helmet. Old pair of leather walking boots.

This is for an 8 mile commute, so I barely get 'warmed up', but have stayed very toasty.

For longer rides I've shed a torso layer, and when it's been a little warmer last week I excluded the hand warmers.