They'll never treat you wrong, they'll keep your hands from getting sweaty, they provide just enough sun protection (except in the little oval where you get a mean cyclist-tan), and the leather palms wear better than the synthetic stuff. They are crash resistant and cheap. Now, I also have a pair of fancy schmancy gloves from Descente that feel pretty good and have great little grippy bits on the fingers:
But I just did a long ride on Sunday with the sun blazing down on me and my crusty leather and crochet gloves did not let me down.
I think I had a couple of pairs of these when I rode actively in Tucson but they, like many other things, got left behind when I moved back east.
ReplyDeleteI still have a pair of Trek fingerless gloves that I got after I discovered I left my riding gloves in Tucson.
Also, I have started to cut the finger tips off my MTB gloves when they blow out due to ad hoc TM. I think I now have 5 pairs of fingerless gloves laying around.
Yeah, I've been wondering if that will happen to my MTB gloves but my Fox brand full finger gloves seem to wear like iron! I bet I could use them for rodeo and they'd hold up. Although, the only job they'd give me at the rodeo would be clown-in-barrel.
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