Cycling Gloves
Whilst you can wear any sort of gloves to go walking in, cycling gloves are a very specific problem, and depending on which type of cycling you are doing, even the time of year and personal preference, you will need a glove which has different characteristics.
Broadly speaking, any glove will need a good amount of padding around the palm, with additional around the thumb crotch. The should also provide a good lever of grip and, most importantly, flexibility so that you can reach the controls of your bike easily and quickly – the gears and brakes, on most modern road cycling bikes being combined but meaning that you have to be able to get your fingers to them easily.
After that you’ve basically got your two types: road or mountain bike. Though arguably you could break this down and include BMX, mostly a lighter pair of MTB gloves will do the job, though you could go specific it you wanted to.
Mountain bike gloves and road cycling gloves both should be breathable, even in the depths of winter when you might wear an under layer of some kind. In the summer you can enjoy open backed or string backed for road gloves, but that’s ill-advised for mountain bike use. With mtb you need to go with something armoured, or at least the D30 range which is a compound that solidifies on impact.
Technology is always moving forward, even with these gloves. I’ve yet to see it, but I am sure that the new silver alloy which is being added to socks and clothes now as built in anti-bacterial agent will make itself known in gloves. I used to cycle using leather weight training gloves, and when they dried out from the sweat they went solid, until I had sweated into them again, when they stank!
You can still use weight training string back gloves, and I think that they are a good option if you don’t mind the smell. Many gloves are made synthetic now. Read through the articles below to really get to grips with gloves. Or should that be get a grip with gloves…
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