Winter gloves recommendations

[bikeworkshop]

Glove liners can be counter productive
- you've replaced some Insulated volume with a fabric layer.
if your hands sweat a little then the glove liners become thermally conductive.

Ultimately you need volume, not density. Most high level insulations are very light because there's little material but a lot of trapped air - the material serves to restrict airflow, hence heat conduction.

 

[novocaine]

Glove liners can be counter productive
- you've replaced some Insulated volume with a fabric layer.
if your hands sweat a little then the glove liners become thermally conductive.

Ultimately you need volume, not density. Most high level insulations are very light because there's little material but a lot of trapped air - the material serves to restrict airflow, hence heat conduction.

that's if the outer shell is to tight.
a good liner should be crazy thin (I used to use silk liners) such that you wind up with 2 layers of trapped warm air, once against your skin with just enough flow through the glove to provide a second, slightly cooler but still warm air layer. paired with a glove that has a fleece liner they are great.

I wouldn't use nitrile or rubber gloves, they won't allow air passage between the two layers and you just wind up with sweaty, wet hands that then get really cold.

 

[Betsy]

I’ve been wearing a silk liner with lambs wool gloves over the top, beaver pelt, shearling mid layer, down mitts with a gore shell and one o’them massive foam #1 fingers from the American football..

 

[bikeworkshop]

I’ve been wearing a silk liner with lambs wool gloves over the top, beaver pelt, shearling mid layer, down mitts with a gore shell and one o’them massive foam #1 fingers from the American football..

all you are missing is cut down litre plastic milk bottles as handshields- or do you have them already?

 

[minor_LEGEND]

I actually chucked a pair of nitrile gloves inside my thermals this morning, seemed to help.

On a 3mile commute sweat or moisture should not be a problem. I wouldn't contemplate it on anything serious. Cutting out the wind-chill was the aim.

 

[benjabbi]

Sounds like some of you realy suffer! I tend to go the @bikeworkshop way, merino baselayer, jersey, fleece layer and my trusty Pace Winteractive, keeping my core warm plus a merino skullcap. Then 100% Briskers are fine down to about 0ºC, lower than that Endura Strikes come out. Merino's great for insulation even when wet. I'm considering some merino liners and a size bigger Briskers to replace the Strikes which are a bit bulky.