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07-30-2020, 08:52 PM #1
Are fingerless gloves now stupid?
Glove shopping, seems like the vast majority of warm weather gloves cover everything. Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention to fashion. Are fingerless gloves out for warm weather biking?
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07-30-2020, 09:02 PM #2Registered User
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Yes
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07-30-2020, 09:03 PM #3
I was wondering the same thing at the bike store today, there were numerous full gloves and only one style fingerless, but I bought fingerless anyway.
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07-30-2020, 09:21 PM #4
It's not like my fingertips are why I'm so fucking hot.
Also, they were always stupid.
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07-30-2020, 09:29 PM #5
For road biking, yes.
For Mountain Biking?
That shit has been gaperific since 1998.
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07-30-2020, 09:47 PM #6
At the risk of outing myself as a kook, I’ll admit that I prefer fingerless gloves. It’s not about hot, it’s something to do with the tactile sensation of touching the shift and brake levers with bare skin; I just don’t like full fingered gloves all that much. I’d probably be more self conscious about looking like a beater if I wasn’t an above average rider.
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07-30-2020, 09:51 PM #7
Humblebrag alert!
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07-30-2020, 09:52 PM #8
Modern thin gloves interface with my shifter and brakes better than my skin 95% of the time. The other 5% I take my gloves and put them in my pack.
They’ve saved my skin innumerable times, the silicon or whatever else grips my brakes better...
But yeah... do you
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07-30-2020, 10:18 PM #9Hucked to flat once
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I couldn’t find any gloves I really liked last time I needed some so I quit wearing them.
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07-31-2020, 05:36 AM #10
Free the powder still makes them
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07-31-2020, 06:09 AM #11
Don't all the cool kids go gloveless these days?
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07-31-2020, 06:20 AM #12User
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07-31-2020, 07:11 AM #13Registered User
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07-31-2020, 07:13 AM #14
I don't know how kids ride without them. I sweat like Ted Striker and my hands were sliding all over the place when I forgot my gloves one day.
Fingerless are definitely stoopid, but just like fanny/hip packs, they'll come back around
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07-31-2020, 07:32 AM #15
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07-31-2020, 08:50 AM #16
Gold Bond should only be used on one part of the body and it aint your hands...
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07-31-2020, 08:52 AM #17
Yes. But if you really need some...Hand Up just put out a few for the LOUD crowd!
It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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07-31-2020, 08:57 AM #18
you'd think half finger gloves would be more popular these days with everyone needing to document their activities on instagram and shizz. Those iphone friendly pointer fingers on full finger gloves generally tend to stink
I agree. last time I forgot my gloves my hand slipped and I took a landing straight to the side of my faceskid luxury
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07-31-2020, 09:13 AM #19
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07-31-2020, 09:23 AM #20
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07-31-2020, 09:47 AM #21It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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07-31-2020, 10:05 AM #22
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07-31-2020, 11:17 AM #23
I cut just the fingertip off of a full finger glove. Worked great for Photos/music/Strava management, but still felt a bit weird on the brake lever.
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07-31-2020, 11:33 AM #24Registered User
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I've used fingerless touring in hot weatehr in yurp but I want protection for mtn biking so i use a hardier version the mechanix gloves with rubber protection strips on the back of the fingers
edit: also wear full elbow pads & knee padz, noticed a big crack in the back of my helmet ( how did that ghet there ?) so I bought a new one with mips
most of this year has been cold but today in the intense heat of summer it might get all the way up to 75 FLast edited by XXX-er; 07-31-2020 at 12:13 PM.
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07-31-2020, 11:37 AM #25
I ride with an older friend in his 50s. Still rocking fingerless gloves and short ankle socks. He rides his ass off harder than most of the people in their 30s I know. I just bite my tongue on the gaperism.
Same with another buddy I ride bike park with sometimes who wears sunglasses with a full face lol.
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