Winter Glove Rec

[Derosid]

I need a recommendation for some good gloves for winter cycling. My hands are very sensitive to cold, and hurt during winter rides when the temps drop below freezing. I’ve got Raynauds syndrome so my hands get cold quickly, plus some bonus frost-bite from years of winter mountaineering and handling cold samples at work. I’d prefer to stick with fingered gloves, as I’m commuting on a drop-bar bike and need to change gears, brake, and move between the drops and hoods.

My current gloves are 45NRTH Sturmfist5, which are barely okay as long as I wear liners with them. Gloves I’ve tried include Castelli Estremo, GripGrab Winter glove, and Gore Thermo C5. None are noticeably better than the 45NRTH glove. I still get painful hands after a few miles when the temps drop below freezing.

Any winter experts out there have some recommendations?

[charliedid]

The 45NRTH Sturmfist5 is on sale and noticeably warmer if a bit lacking in the tactile dept. Pogies a re popular for those in freezing temps but I find them claustrophobic. You may not.

Hestra and Arcteryx are worth a look

[Likes2ridefar]

The more you can mitten your hand the better imo. Lobster claws are the only style that work for me such as Pearl Izumi but still have limits. For worry free, I use non cycling brand mittens designed for hands like mine that are thin and work fine with road shifters.

[Veloo]

I've got Barmitts for both drop and flat bars.
For commuting in a city they are a drag if you have to remove and install (cuz of potential theft). Your fingers freeze by the time you get them on.

I splurged on heated gloves a coupe weeks ago.
https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...72#post3437372

I haven't tested in sub zero temps but did try them in temps around 6C. I was comfy but not sweating even on the highest setting. I was aware of the cold air but not actually cold. The insulation is on the lighter side. I didn't want ski glove level insulation.

I may look for a shell only over-glove. I think that may keep the warm air in place to tolerate -10 to -15C temps.

[Likes2ridefar]

The thing with insulation and cycling is it gets wet, quickly, then if you have hands like mine they are cold no matter what thereafter. Keeping the insulation dry with a vapor barrier solves this but I’ve never really found a great solution for cycling.

[Mikej]

I just use hot hands warmers and put them in ziplock bags for multiple uses.

[tellyho]

Gloves are never going to work, IMO. I'm a daily winter commuter in new england with likely Reynauds. Any temp below 35 is lobsters. Below 20 is wool mitts inside overmitts (bar end shifters ftw). You can spend as much or as little as possible on gloves, as with every other aspect of our hobby. These guys are as good as any lobster I've used, for $30.

[thwart]

Some docs use nifedipine as a vasodilator for folks with painful Raynaud's phenomenon.

I don't have Raynaud's but I ride in the winter and painful, cold hands and feet are all too familiar.

Useful to think of your hands and feet as radiators... the valves controlling blood flow to these radiators tend to close if you're dehydrated, use a lot of caffeine (guilty...), are anxious, or have a core that's not well insulated and therefore too cool for the surroundings. Blood stays in the core to keep your body temp at 98.6... then your hands are 'vasoconstricted', cold as h*ll, and painful. Pushed to the extreme, damage like frostbite occurs.

We're probably all familiar with this situation improving with vigorous exercise; core temperature goes up, 'radiator valves' open, hands get warm. Pain goes away. Pushed to the extreme, hands get soaked with sweat in those warm gloves.

So besides the really good gloves and foot warmers, remember good hydration, reasonable use of caffeine, and importantly keeping your core warm (layer so you can shed later as needed).

[.RJ]

Originally Posted by thwart

Some docs use nifedipine as a vasodilator for folks with painful Raynaud's phenomenon.

Having tried this for blood pressure there is no way I would take this if I didnt have to.

For the OP, bar mitts and/or heated gloves are probably your best bet without super bulky gloves.

[Dired]

Q36.5 Super Termico Winter Gloves
I've traded my electric ones in for these. They just work and are built to last.

[Vamoots58]

poor hand circulation as well. Bought the SealSkinz heated gloves last winter, and they were pretty good. Only issue for me is that if I have them too warm, then my hands sweat, AND THEN get cold...

[mdeth1313]

Serius Mountain Challenger gloves - I get them in 2xl to allow for maximum layering underneath , primark liner gloves (1 or 2 pair under at a time) - $2 for 2 pairs. If it gets really cold out, put toe warmers in the gloves.

[LouDeeter]

I would jokingly say move to Florida, but we do have days when a ride of more than 45 minutes requires insulated gloves!

[Derosid]

Originally Posted by LouDeeter

I would jokingly say move to Florida, but we do have days when a ride of more than 45 minutes requires insulated gloves!

Funny enough, I lived in Miami for 13 years. That was a tougher adjustment to the constant sweating than I had when I moved to upstate NY. I remember a sweatband called the “raingutter” that was the only thing that kept sweat out of my eyes on the rides down there!

Thanks for all the great suggestions so far. With Black Friday I may snag something. In my mountaineering days we’d sometimes do low-tech vapor barrier socks with plastic bags for the extreme cold. I do that now with nitrile gloves that I got to use when working on the car. They leave some dexterity and add a vapor barrier under my 45NRTH gloves.

[Likes2ridefar]

Nitrile is what I’ve tried as well. A soaking wet but warm hand is better than a cold and wet hand

I wear vapor barrier mittens for mountaineering and for extreme cold bike rides which thankfully is almost never now that I live in Arizona.