Winter gloves?

[stevebell]

Waterproofing not a prority. Must be warm. Will only use on the occasional bright but cold day throughout the winter. My hands feel the cold.
Any recomendations?
Thanks.
Steve.

 

[hops]

Try these

 

[dieselpower]

I've got a pair of those and the missus does to. Takes a we while to get used to them but they're nice and warm.

 

[Schtum]

I very much suspect that the lobster-claw gloves such as Pathans offer very little in the way of crash protection. Fortunately, there are winter gloves which offer warmth, waterproofness and crash protection.

I can thoroughly recommend the BMG Thermosport Gloves

Yes you have to buy them on the web from BMG in San Diego, California. Paul Brooks who owns BMG offers great customer service and sells great products, most of which are from the range of Belstaff motorcycle clothing before the brand name was sold off in 2005.

 

[boxer]

Waterproofing not a prority. Must be warm. Will only use on the occasional bright but cold day throughout the winter. My hands feel the cold.
Any recomendations?
Thanks.
Steve.

Gerbing heated.

 

[Harlequin25]

The BMW Pro Winter gloves are very good. I was out and about at zero degrees C last weekend and my hands were toasty. However, they are a bit bulky, don't have much in the way of armour and I am not convinced the velco retaining straps are particularly effective

 

[Fanum]

Winter gloves.....thick, unwieldy, unreliable (not watertight) and too thick to allow the benefit of the heated grips to do you any good
Expensive, awkward, the insides keep getting pulled out when you try and take them off

In short, they are crap

Forget the whole idea of winter gloves, just get a pair of muffs and use your normal gloves with the grips turned on....it will take you half an hour to get used to using them, they will be 100% waterproof, and because they create a pocket of warm air around your normal gloves, they will be warmer than any winter gloves anyway

 

[Dave Ett]

Fanum is Bob-on about muffs, but if you can't bring yourself to fit them, then I recommend these:

http://www.ghostbikes.com/products/...ada-enforcer-wp-hi-vis-motorcycle-gloves.html

Used them for the last 15 months and been very impressed for the price. Never leaked a drop!

 

[Kahuna]

Fanum is Bob-on about muffs, but if you can't bring yourself to fit them, then I recommend these:

http://www.ghostbikes.com/products/...ada-enforcer-wp-hi-vis-motorcycle-gloves.html

Used them for the last 15 months and been very impressed for the price. Never leaked a drop!

What's the lining like on these gloves?? Normally my winter gloves fail because the lining in the fingers pull out when taking them off (no matter how careful I am it happens eventually) and then cant get the lining back in when you need to put them back on!

 

[JayC]

Winter gloves.....thick, unwieldy, unreliable (not watertight) and too thick to allow the benefit of the heated grips to do you any good
Expensive, awkward, the insides keep getting pulled out when you try and take them off

In short, they are crap

Forget the whole idea of winter gloves, just get a pair of muffs and use your normal gloves with the grips turned on....it will take you half an hour to get used to using them, they will be 100% waterproof, and because they create a pocket of warm air around your normal gloves, they will be warmer than any winter gloves anyway

It may have taken you half hour to get used to them but that doesn't mean it will apply to everyone. Personally I think they're horrible things, a hinderance and in some circumstances darn right dangerous!
As with all things there are pros/cons and the cons I found were that they would collapse on the hands above 50mph, therefore making it difficult to 'find' the front brake lever, and clutch, therefore dangerous.

I feel they need better bracing to prevent the collapse.

To manoeuvre the bike about I find little give in the muffs and so the bike is almost upright when reversing creating a balance issue and thereby threatening to fall away from you. Ideally the bike wants to be leant in slightly but these didn't permit this, not in my experience anyway.

Winter gloves? Just a thick glove or heated gloves? How much are looking to spend for this 'occasional' use?

I recently sold some Gerbings, fantastically comfortable but I wasn't impressed with the heat output on my particular pair. I have since bought a pair of Oxford Inox Heated Gloves and so far very impressed, but they are a fair whack on the wallet!

Pays your money and all that....

 

[stevebell]

Cheers you lot. Great advice so far. had muffs on a CB500 I used to commute on years ago, hadn't thought about them on the gsa though. Don't want to spend much and realise that may end up in the old "You get what you pay for, Buy cheap buy twice" scenario.

 

[deangsadv]

Gerbing T5's, I have to turn them down as they get to hot, they also allow the heat from your heated grips to get through, the new one's come with a controller so work out cheaper, Brilliant.

 

[King Rat]

Heated grips in the rain will turn your breathable gloves into pools inside - the heat on the outside from the grip is greater than the heat on the inside from your hand....so the rain is heated through to the inside of your gloves and you will blame the breathable lining for failing.

The muffs are brilliant. Yes, they are more bulky than winter gloves and limit the parked manoevering of the bike a bit - but only if you are off the bike. Sit astride and paddle it around is easy enough. The muffs that are sold on here have a metal support that means they do not collapse even at 80+ - I have used mine for the last 3 or 4 years and they still stay exactly where I put them. The other benefit is that they only take 2 or 3 minutes to fit. So you don't have to leave them on all the time if you don't want to. Best £35 I ever spent on riding gear, that's for sure...I have a pair of the KNOX winter gloves, the new ones with the wind up gauntlett. They are dry as a bone, but not as warm as I need - my fingers froze the other day. I need some thermal lining gloves to keep my hands warm even in the £135 knox gloves. The muffs (Turbano urbano?) are toasty warm, dry and you get more feel of the levers - switches need a bit of practise, but that is all it is, practise.

So, over all, another vote for muffs on the bars.

 

[JayC]

The muffs are brilliant. Yes, they are more bulky than winter gloves and limit the parked manoevering of the bike a bit - but only if you are off the bike. Sit astride and paddle it around is easy enough. The muffs that are sold on here have a metal support that means they do not collapse even at 80+ - I have used mine for the last 3 or 4 years and they still stay exactly where I put them.

So, over all, another vote for muffs on the bars.

Interesting! Can you be more specific on model type (R prefix?) you bought, because I bought mine from here and they DO collapse.?

 

[illustratedman]

Gloves

These are extremely warm http://www.getgeared.co.uk/HELD_2272_Nordpol_Winter_Motorcycle_Gloves?sc=16&category=139, i've got arthritis in one of my hands and these are supremely warm and waterproof. They may not have great protection but are not bad, visor wipor built in and the inner doesnt pull out. I've been down to minus 2 in em without the grips switched on no problem at all.

 

[Dave Ett]

What's the lining like on these gloves?? Normally my winter gloves fail because the lining in the fingers pull out when taking them off (no matter how careful I am it happens eventually) and then cant get the lining back in when you need to put them back on!

Never had it pull out yet...

 

[gipsymagpie]

Alpinestars 365 + heated grips = awesome

Plus I have crashed them and they are tough as old boots.

That's what I use anyway. Never had a problem with that breathable membrane thing that someone mentioned.

 

[Fanum]

It may have taken you half hour to get used to them but that doesn't mean it will apply to everyone. Personally I think they're horrible things, a hinderance and in some circumstances darn right dangerous!
As with all things there are pros/cons and the cons I found were that they would collapse on the hands above 50mph, therefore making it difficult to 'find' the front brake lever, and clutch, therefore dangerous.

I feel they need better bracing to prevent the collapse.

I can imagine how they might collapse if you fit them on bare bars, but , but if you have handguards of any sort, they don't, at any speed.

(GSA here....if the handguards can survive 20 stone of me hitting a rock at 40mph, they can withstand a 60mph wind )

As for pushing the bike around, yes, if you fit them too tight or have a poorly designed muff, I can see that too, but my cheapo (30 something quid i think ) oxford muffs have a single, large popper button that i just flick open and then have sideways access to the bars to hoik the beasty about with no hassle.

I must have tried half a dozen sets of so called 'Winter gloves', spending what, 40 quid or more per pair ?

Muffs will never look great, but neither will any thick winter glove.....I'd rather look a bit of a berk on the bike but be safely in control, with toasty fingers, than look just marginally less cool wearing Michelin man hands, with cold insensitive fingers, in gloves that don't dry out, take ages to put on and generally make life a misery