Gloves are just as much if not more about protecting your hands in a crash as they're for comfort. If you don't like the feel of padded gloves there are also ones without any padding.
Summer Gloves?
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I'll second this thought. I'm still running an old pair of cheap Performance gloves with a terry cloth back and since I sweat copiously it gets a lot of use. Best gloves I've ever owned, they just won't wear out. Wish I had purchased several pair.
I had the same issue, they use to be really nice gloves, not anymore. The last pair I bought I discovered the padding got thinner, then the manufacturing idiots hot glued the padding into a inside pocket, that hot glue lasted all but one day. I took them back immediately to my former Specialized dealer and instead got a pair of Bontrager Solstice, these are OK, nothing to write home about though.
I use to by Giro gloves too, but the last pair of those that I got lasted barely a season when the face side of the glove got paper thin it ripped through, and then I tried to get the glove off with those pulls and the pulls ripped right off, I don't recall the model but that's when I switched to Specialized, and now I'm with Bontrager but will be looking for a better pair, I'll have to try a pair of those Isodore Signature gloves, they sound interesting, but are they? I don't want spend $150 for gloves, I've had expensive pairs before and quite frankly they didn't last any longer than less expensive ones, and they weren't any more or less comfortable than cheaper ones.
These are awful... well the giro ones anyway. That foam just holds in all the heat. This is a pretty decent winter solution.
I like full finger and to wear gloves even on the hottest day; half finger seem to make the exposed side swell a bit. Looking at perforated, light pad, summer gloves....
Light pad: Rapha Explore (seemed great in the store, but expensive), Giro XNETIC knitted gloves (I bought a 2nd pair, palm shrinks a bit in dryer, but the back feels like a hug)
Pad: Castelli Arenburg (haven't tried these, but I like their central palm pad on the cross gloves); Bontrager Circuit (inform pad is genius, solves problem of pads splaying).
Bad: Gore C5 Trail (palm streches unevenly when moist, destroys your palm)
Tip: don't spend too much here, as the lightest gloves tear from the palm on occasion (the kitted Giro being an exception).
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MrRolandos
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Roeckl gloves, i swear by them. Currently have 2 pairs of Roeckl icon. Theyre the best
I've been altering 2 pairs of gripgrabs for the past year with average 200km ride per week and they're still in shape.
Granted one of the pair has started to have the stitching come off in the padding area...
Just purchased a couple Pearl Izumis, can't wait to try them.
This is also one of the importance of gloves, I have had some skin scraped (but most of it saved) by a glove in a crash.
Wouldn't wanna ride without one!
