I have a good set of gloves, but prefer not to wear them.

I want 'close contact' with the bars; I want that 'EXACT FEELING' of control.

I know I am forsaking an element of protection in the event of a spill ... but, the intimate tactile experience of hand to grip, is more comfortable/ important, for me.

Am also guesssing, that another downside to my preference for zero gloves, is that I'm forced to deal with sweaty palms ??

( I spose a good set of leather gloves eliminates the sweat issue ? )

 

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Always gloves for me..........

Many, many decades ago when the universe was young and so was I, it was a hot summer's day at Dromana. Just cruising along checking out the scenery, bang, a stupid female decides to run across the road with looking, straight into the bike. throwing the rider to the road.

Small damage to the bike, torn Levis, Brando jacket okay, but jeez did the skinned hands hurt, and did continue to hurt all the way back to Melbourne and for weeks after.

You can ride with skinned body parts, but your hands? Different story......You need your hands for a lot of things.

Lesson learnt that hot summer's day. If you're cruising, don't go smoozing the road without gloves.

A good pair of fingerless gloves (Harley have a huge range) in summer are the ants pants.

I ride without gloves and now suffer the side effects.......multiple skin cancers on the back of my paws!

Since I work with my hands I wear gloves every time I ride even if I am only wearing nothing else but a pair of speedo's.

Fuck! if I were a gigolo I guess I would wear a kevlar cock sock, but I aint and I don't.

Who gives a shit what you wear....do what you want to do ...be what you want to be....YEAH!

Like nearly all occasions Pauly ..

You miss THE point.

Was never asking for approval, only opinions !

+1 to gloves every time

+1 to gloves...ones with solid knuckles so that my hand does not get hurt smashing mirrors on the fuckwits that try to kill me!

Well This thread didnt go very well. I didnt join this forum to be called an idiot for what I wear when I ride. Personal choice fellas. This one makes as much sense as do you fold or do you scrunch your shit paper. If it matters, I wear gloves when my hands are cold.

Well This thread didnt go very well. I didnt join this forum to be called an idiot for what I wear when I ride. Personal choice fellas. This one makes as much sense as do you fold or do you scrunch your shit paper. If it matters, I wear gloves when my hands are cold.

Well This thread didnt go very well. I didnt join this forum to be called an idiot for what I wear when I ride. Personal choice fellas. This one makes as much sense as do you fold or do you scrunch your shit paper. If it matters, I wear gloves when my hands are cold.

C'mon Speedy, protect those digits man! If you damage them how are you going to write all the questions on the forum or operate that shit stirring stick? With your nose?

Having had a couple 'good' offs in my time, I always wear gloves and I'm bloody grateful I do. Thicker winter ones annoy me though.

But what's this control business that you think your potentially missing by wearing gloves? Perhaps it would be worth putting down the gardening gloves and go try some primo leather ones. I'd argue you have more control wearing quality gloves -- if Valentino piloting a MotoGP weapon has all the control he needs to earn his pay check wearing gloves, I'm sure you can find it too. But hey, it's all up to you.

i suppose once an individual has come off and skinned their hands ,the decision to wear gloves becomes easier.

Speedy, you're right that your fingers/palms exposé more nerve endings to the grips and controls, and the tactile feel of no gloves is greater than the tactile feel of gloves. But only under certain conditions is all that extra feeling actually an advantage. For instance, the colder it gets, the more riding gloveless results in less tactile feel. Why? Because different nerve fibers in the body carry different kinds of signal. Extremities exposed to cold result in the fibers responsible for both cold and pain signals 'firing', thus increasing pain and decreasing agility. Then there is vibration. Vibration and fatigue are obviously positively correlated: more vibrations, the quicker fatigue sets in, as well all experience on long rides or rides where we change gear and brake alot. What do layers of leather or other glove material do? Cut down on vibrations. Maybe not much sometimes, but on rides likely to induce fatigue, maybe enough to preserve that extra millisecond or more of better reaction? Probably.

Point is, ride how you like, of course. I certainly enjoy no gloves on short, hot rides. But on longer hot rides, I wear my summer leather gloves. Keeps the sun and bugs at bay, etc. Colder weather, give me gloves. The key is to wear them in. They soften up, facilitating better grip. We all know these details. I am just adding that the actual advantages of going gloveless, for things like tactile feel and grip, are actually limited to shorter and warmer rides. Outside of those conditions, you're more likely to quickly be sacrificing pain, fatigue and grip protections associated with gloves.

I couldn't care less what other people wear but I grew up riding ratty old bikes through the bush (country boy) and while we couldn't afford much 'real' riding gear we always made sure we wore some solid workmens gloves because after scraping along a dirt road at 80kph a couple of times even a slow learner like me learned that my hands fucking hurt after doing that

And I've just kept wearing them.

I wear MX gloves when its cold or on a longer ride , busten around town no gloves

Sometimes I strongly defend myself and sometimes I act the jerk and need to be told, to get back in my box.

But, mostly ... I seek and share, information about all things that interest me.

Is this a joke?

 haha, it's impossible for me to get a boot up to a mirror now too.