Winter Gloves

[ampthill]

Goretex is a membrane that works on the basis of heat.

I don't think so. My understanding is that the principle of Gortex is that it is made up of a membrane that has pores small enough to be impervious to water droplets but large enough to let water vapour out. Hence the old trick of filling a gortex glove with boiling water - no water will escape but steam will come out of the fingers. Try this at your own risk

Peter

 

[Packer]

Agreed.

So called 'winter' gloves leak, let draughts in and leech dye- plus they make your fingers feel like balloons and remove you from the feeling on being in control of the bike- they're a struggle to get on, you always remember that you haven't done up your helmet straps, undone the disc lock or whatever, then you have all that bloody hassle again

Not only that, but a decent winter glove will set you back a tonne, so most of us will only lash out on one pair- you'll get them wet and there's nothing worse than pulling on a pair of wet gloves....they sap your will to ride and make the whole day poo.


Winter gloves are pants- they either don't work, or they're so much hassle they're not worth it....Muffs may look odd (but WGAF?) but they work, period.

Summer gloves, heated grips and muffs, job done.

+1 on that

 

[Wapping]

Goretex is a membrane that works on the basis of heat. The pores open up to let excess heat and moisture out. If you use heated gloves the goretex opens up and draws the moisture from the outside of the glove. This gives you sweaty hands.

Just ask William Gore

Are you telling us that mountaineers and 'winter' athletes (like skiers) who sweat far harder than one's pinkies on a motorcycle's heathed grips, spend loads of money on clothes that let water in?

Old Mr Gore would have gone bust years ago.

Can't see any blurb on the Gore website that mentions their wonder product's teeny weeny holes being designed to get bigger as the fabric gets warmer. I can see plenty of blurb that says that the holes in the fabric can help to release up to a litre of sweaty fluids, through the little holes (without the need for the holes to get any bigger) without water coming in.

Anyway, I have pinged the question to Gore. Let's see what they have to say.

 

[Wapping]

+1

Except pulling the cuffs of your waterproofs over them after youve stopped to pee

You should have gone before you left home....did your mother teach you nothing?

HG's later jackets have zipped and velcroed cufffs, which widen to solve this tricky little problem. Albeit, maybe a price worth paying for warm mits?

 

[terayon]

I don't think so. My understanding is that the principle of Gortex is that it is made up of a membrane that has pores small enough to be impervious to water droplets but large enough to let water vapour out. Hence the old trick of filling a gortex glove with boiling water - no water will escape but steam will come out of the fingers. Try this at your own risk

Peter

Yeah now try that with cold water. Goretex requires heat to open the pores to let your sweat out, but only on the heat side, it's called climate control. So if you use heated grips, which side are the pores going to open up on. Your gloves being hotter on the outside palm will drag the water up and turn it into vapour to soak into the gloves.
Ask any goretex trained member of staff at hein gericke or

Look under climate control

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