Had to wear Gloves for Can Am riding course - Do you wear gloves? Why? Or why not?

[TheMariner]

Fair comment Peter... something is always better than nothing and if the best you'll do is wear fingerless then that's great. However I think if you are going to the trouble of covering 75% of your hands, you might as well cover 100%. Yes, your palms cop the worst of it when you 'superman' onto the road but I don't fancy losing the tips of my fingers either.

Sure, fingerless gloves are a little cooler than full gloves & allow you to sneak in a cheeky nose pick if needed, but I don't know if a munched-up finger is going to allow that anyway.

Each to their own :2thumbs:

 

[nightfalcon]

Story time: The case of the missing Finger Tip!

I don't remember anything about the crash, but I'd hit some livestock that had wandered out onto the road on a blind corner. I woke up in intensive care three days later with, amongst a whole list of injuries, the tip of my right index finger cut clean off. I was wearing full protective gloves which showed signs of being scraped along the road, as did the rest of my gear, but the fingers were all intact.

Weeks after I got out of hospital, I checked the gloves to see if the tip of my finger was still in them but alas... there was no sign of it! I can only think I must have taken the glove off and then somehow poked my finger into the rear sprocket or something? I was found an hour after I went down (my GPS recorded when the bike was moved) unconscious with the bike on top of me. Nobody knows what happened that day, or what became of the missing partial digit, but one thing is for sure.... there was no finger pointing for some time....

 

[Little Blue]

I have been reading all of the posts on the 'Wearing of Gloves'. First off, I have been wearing gloves for years. I have four different types that I wear. Basically a four season appropriate glove.
Also I like the feel of my ryding gloves.
Just don't have the comfort level without them.

I will leave it at that. Your choice is probably different from mine. So do whatever works best for you.

Have a Safe Spyder Ryde Time. ....:thumbup:

 

[Rd_Runner]

ATGATT - All The Gear All The Time

X2...


Mike

 

[Columbia]

ATGATT for me.

 

[PURPLEON3]

Yes, ATGATT, I'm used to them. I wear Klim Summer Induction in all kinds of weather - air flow in the summer, and I use my heated grips and heated grip wraps in colder weather with the gloves. I like my hands, feet, head, skin, etc.

 

[Dansy]

I always wear gloves, even in the '70’s and later when I would sometimes ride in a T-shirt and shorts - with gloves and a Snell helmet. Yes, I was young! LOL ��

 

[lvmyspyder]

Always have. The Spyder is SO much safer than a two-wheeler or a dual-wheel-behind trike, but if you were to ever hit the road at speed, you will be glad things are covered as much as possible. I don't get on my bike without them. I have compromised some and do go open finger or whatever that might be called, so my fingers are bare. I use thicker, but still 'no finger' gloves in the winter, and very thin lambskin gloves in the Summer. If I ever did hit the road, I'd likely blow right off, and my fingers would take a licking for sure. I hope I won't ever find out.

What I can say for sure is that after you get used to them, and it does not take that long, you likely won't even notice they are on. We had to wear gloves on our three-wheel safety course, and that is why we had to wear them there, the safety factor. It's personal preference after that, but I would encourage you to wear them if you ride. Your safety, your skin, so your call.

Sorry, one last word. IF you do get hit by a big old bumblebee at 75 MPH or a rock or anything like that, which if you ride long enough... will happen, you will be glad you are wearing some kind of glove or protection. It might still sting some, but if it hits bare skin, you will be doing a little pain dance for a while.

 

[Ages]

Things are rapidly starting to heat up here in the Southwest; one thing I'm noticing is that I am going to have to find a pair of lightweight, breathable, summer gloves. I need a pair that will stay as cool as possible, especially for long rides, but that can also be used on the touchscreen. Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Rather than starting a new thread, I figured this would fit here.

 

[Dansy]

I always wore gloves when I was riding 2 wheels, just a habit I guess. I have several for different weather.

 

[racoon]

Time to visit your local motorcycle shop. Tell them what you're looking for and they'll be able to help you.

 

[Gwolf]

You ride with gloves on for the same reason you don't ride bare foot.
If you want to ride buck nekkid it don't matter to me.
I wear gloves to ride anything that might suddenly buck me off.

 

[Lew L]

Of course!!!

 

[Snoking1127]

Things are rapidly starting to heat up here in the Southwest; one thing I'm noticing is that I am going to have to find a pair of lightweight, breathable, summer gloves. I need a pair that will stay as cool as possible, especially for long rides, but that can also be used on the touchscreen. Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Rather than starting a new thread, I figured this would fit here.

I wear fabric Ace Hardware work gloves. I will let you know how it goes tomorrow, Gold Canyon to Mount Lemon to motel in Tucson. Tuesday motel to Kitt Peak to Gold Canyon and it is going to be hot each day.

 

[Bangorbob]

99.9% of the time I wear gloves. When riding my spyder I dress a little casual. When on the Harley, full dress. Safe riding to all no matter what you ride.

 

[jzeiler]

You really only have to wear gear covering the parts of your body you want to keep! Asphalt is fairly abrasive and you never know when you might go sliding on it at speed.

 

[old Timer]

At 82 years old and still riding since the early 50's, skin Cancer likes to show it's ugly head. Been using gloves, helmets and at least a long sleeve shirt always. Riding in the intense Sun here in the Southwest USA, you are much cooler with full coverage than with a lot of skin showing.

 

[WisconsinDavid]

I ride with gloves... light for warm, waterproof for rain and coldweather waterproof. I've been hit in the mitts with rocks and bugs enough to know it stings pretty bad at speed... and helps with sunburn to have the hands covered too. Then I don't have to soak my hands in Palmolive dish soap like Madge of old did in the commercials (Geez I'm old!) LOL

 

[JayBros]

ATGATT beats “s**t happens” 100% of the time.

 

[Peter Aawen]

Things are rapidly starting to heat up here in the Southwest; one thing I'm noticing is that I am going to have to find a pair of lightweight, breathable, summer gloves. I need a pair that will stay as cool as possible, especially for long rides, but that can also be used on the touchscreen. Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Rather than starting a new thread, I figured this would fit here.

It's fairly hot here in Oz most of the time, and I learnt the 'ATGATT' lesson early (as a paramedic!) so I wear gloves all the time I'm riding, altho I do tend to wear relatively lightweight gloves (well, unless it's pelting down with rain or I'm riding in the snow... ) and that means my 'preferred riding gloves' generally wear out fairly quickly!! So I'm ALWAYS on the lookout for new gloves, and I've ALWAYS got a couple of 'different weather/different needs' options in the way of gloves to wear stashed in the frunk or under the seat somewhere.

These days, I most often wear a pair of 'no-name' bike gloves that I found in an op shop; they're a perfect fit, almost as if they were custom made for me; in a really good, soft, but strong leather with 'tiny breathing holes' punched in all the 'non-critical areas'; and with heavy reinforcement/padding in all the critical areas, like the palm, between the thumb & forefinger, and across the back of the knuckles too; and they work as well as anything ever does for me on anything touchscreen - but then, my fingertips are pretty scarred up, so using a touch screen at all, with or without gloves, is always another lesson in controlling frustration for me!! And if the pair I start out wearing don't work/make me too frustrated, I've always got another pair stashed somewhere in/on the bike (or maybe even three other pairs, possibly even some old HD fingerless gloves with the rubbery HD Logo peeled off the 'back of the hand' mesh covering?!)

So all up, I don't really have a 'recommendation' for you, I just keep an eye out for good gloves that fit me/my current needs ALL the time; and if I see something that might work, I buy them and try them. If they don't work for me, I can always find a new home for them, even if that means donating them to an op shop if no-one else I know wants them. As the Grandkids say waaayyy too often/ad nauseum, "Just keep looking, just keep looking..." (usually just after I ask them to 'Help me find my...' ) And remember, your hands are pretty much exposed when you're riding, and your fingers/hands are pretty important to you in sooo many ways in the rest of your life, so can you really ever have too many pairs of good, protective riding gloves? Especially if having so many pairs means that you've always got the ideal pair for whatever's happening right now??

Just Sayin'