COLD HANDS

[MajorMantra]

Layering is essential.

Agreed. Most bike shops sell glove liners which work well with winter gloves for cold days.

I figured, but what makes the nose wipe part of the glove special?
different fabric? where is it on the glove?

It's usually softer and more absorbent than the rest of the glove. It tends to be along your thumb/metacarpal.

Matthew

 

[purplepolly]

Mittens are far warmer than gloves, but are only really practicable with hubgears and a gripshift. In the really cold weather last winter I used my hubgeared bike with a pair of waterproof/windproof/fleecy lined mittens that I got from a walking shop a coule of years ago.

 

[annedonnelly]

My wife suffers with Reynauds and riding the bike over the winter causes real problems. Tried various makes of gloves, does anyone have similar prob and have they found "super gloves" or how do they get round it

Me too! I've not found a solution yet - I did try silk glove liners (from Patra silk) under thermal gloves, but it didn't seem to help much. I think that moving her hands to different positions might help.

My mum read somewhere that drinking a teaspoon of molasses in hot water everyday would help. It tasted so awful I couldn't manage it, but your wife might want to give it a try.

And once your fingers are cold the best place to warm them up is on the back of your neck. (The best place is actually on someone else's warm bits - but they won't always oblige. )

 

[2Loose]

And once your fingers are cold the best place to warm them up is on the back of your neck. (The best place is actually on someone else's warm bits - but they won't always oblige. )

If those are the same warm bits I am thinking of, they should be 2 degrees cooler than the rest of their body in actuality

 

[ASC1951]

My mum read somewhere that drinking a teaspoon of molasses in hot water everyday would help. It tasted so awful I couldn't manage it, but your wife might want to give it a try.

If your mum is of a certain age (as mine is) molasses was heavily promoted to her as a nostrum for everything from deafness to ingrowing toenails by an enterprising American called Gayelord Hauser. He did have a point in promoting wholefoods decades ahead of his time, but molasses is just sugar with a few residual minerals so it's not very likely to cure anything.

If those are the same warm bits I am thinking of, they should be 2 degrees cooler than the rest of their body in actuality

Nottingham, eh. Most people find the armpits far more effective.

 

[kewb]

those gel handwarmers might do the job if slipped inside a decent waterproof fleece glove , half the battle is keeping out the wind remember .

 

[Randochap]

Lobster gloves are what I use in very cold conditions ... but has to be well below freezing or sweat is a problem.

 

[Bodhbh]

Not found an answer to this myself yet, but my circulation in not great in my hands and so far I've the 2 pairs of cycling specific winter gloves I've tried to be pretty poor. They are too small - and with liners cuts the circulation even more - and they very quickly start to split or the lining pulls out, which is not what you want when they are around 30 pound a pop.

The best gloves I had last winter were some ski gloves, which unfortunately were on the last legs anyhow, but did the job better than the cycling ones. Think this year I'll be looking to buy a pair of mountaineering/ski gloves from the gitgo.

(I have also got some no-brand lobster gloves which are seem quite poorly insulated, but they are still warm and prove the concept well, perhaps the Pearl Izumi ones are much better)

 

[simon walsh]

Check out prendas as they have some new gloves out that are suposed to be really good and reasonably priced.

 

[fredkite]

A very important way to help keep hands (and feet) warm is to wear a good warm hat.

 

[summerdays]

I too suffer from Reynald's and have tried various gloves: night vision are no where near warm enough for me, I've tried silk liner gloves and other liner gloves and those hand warmer things (I must own about a dozen of them by now). The best ones for me are the Amfib ones but still loose my circulation. I often carry a small flask of a hot drink as a way of warming me up (alcohol works best but work wouldn't look to kindly on that!). And yes I wear a hat too and lots of layers on my body and boots to keep my feet warm.

 

[2Loose]

Lobster gloves are what I use in very cold conditions ... but has to be well below freezing or sweat is a problem.

+1 for these, used to wear them on my motorbike in winter conditions at 60+mph winds. Worked brilliantly...may have to dig them out for the winter commute methinks.

 

[manalog]

Has anyone tried the FIR Therapy Gloves, I too have Reynauds and it affects my right foot. There is another website I came across when I was looking into this last Winter but can't find it now.
http://www.firheals.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=41

 

[manalog]

Here is the URL I was talking about, the Silver Gloves can probably be used as a Lining
http://www.raynauds.org.uk/potioncms/viewer.asp?a=132&z=12

 

[rick123]

I would go for layers. Get 2 pairs of thermal undergloves then a pair of skiing gloves from decathlon or similar. Just make sure it doesn't interfere with braking.

Some of the skiing gloves have a blow hole where you can blow warm air into them too. Bit of a gimmick though.