Yesterday my hands got absolutely soaked on our Northern ride out. I'm not really bothered about wet hands but with the wind my hands were like ice when I got home. What do people do about this? I did hear that people just carry an emergency pair of heavy-duty black rubber gloves a couple of sizes too big and put them on over their standard gloves?
Best tip I heard was take disposable medical tyre gloves you may wear in the garage and put them under. stops your hands getting too wet. Like these
Certainly a good idea to put them on over the top of your gloves because then if it goes stop raining you can whip them off and you will still have dry gloves. Do they come in white ?
if you do this make sure you get the unpowdered versions or itll look like your sniffing off your gloves to the rozzers! Nitrile gloves seem some of the strongest of the lightweight gloves, make sure you get them big enough
I use nitriles at work all time and there great, colour options are green, blue or green. and i doubt your get them over the top of your gloves...... even size 10 wont unless you have little hands
I just have a pair of Gortex Gloves which are waterproof and a set of lighter summer Gloves. TBH I prefer the Gortex even in the warm weather!
I've had these 2 years nearly and been great all weather, maybe a bit warm in the middle of summer on a red hot day. http://www.weise-clothing.co.uk/weise_2011/gloves/pacific.html
Better to get some waterproof over mitts, they are thin and easy to carry and can turn a pair of spring/autum gloves into winter gloves for an emergancy. It sounds like they would have been very usefull up north last weekend.
went to Hein gericke to exchange some Faulty Goretex gloves and they had bugger all in that were Gore tex (wrong season apparently...are they kidding) so got distracted and exchanged them for a nice new summer glove to replace my much loved but well done for Kushitanis apologies for dodgy photos the wife took them whilst giggling
