Thermal gloves for under gloves, any good?

[crystalball]

Rode to paeroa last Friday night to pick my daughter up to head to tauranga and noticed hands are cold. Got to tauranga about 9.30pm and my poor daughters hands are a little purple mine cold to. Are dri rider thermal gloves a good cheap trick to cure this problem. we have winter gloves but still cold, Also hoping that they wont make our gloves hard to put on over them.

[BMWST?]

for teh rider=heated grips....

[FJRider]

Why not just get decent gloves to start with ??? Get a size or two larger than your normal ... and you will have room for thermals underneath.

[sil3nt]

I got some gloves from kathmandu that I wear under my winter gloves if I need to. They look exactly like this just not sure if they are polypro or not

[nzspokes]

My fairing has hand size vent holes from the radiator. Stuff my hand in there for a sec works well.

[Spuds1234]

I find thermal under gloves work poorly and outer waterproof gloves/mittens work well (as do heated grips).

[hellokitty]

I find that thermal glove liners under my gloves make them too bulky to be 100% happy with the levers - would be great for a pliion though. I have heated handgrips which are fantastic but the top of the hands still get cold.

[Owl]

I use the Icebreaker thermal glove liners and find them really good, as they're not bulky.

[Tigadee]

I got some gloves from kathmandu that I wear under my winter gloves if I need to. They look exactly like this just not sure if they are polypro or not

Yup, polypro... I've got them too.

There probably better alternatives but for this price, they're pretty good and do make a difference.

I intentionally bought the smallest sized ones so they'd fit snug and tight, so they could go into the riding gloves easy.

[GTRMAN]

I picked up a pair of oxford chillout gloves when riding to Gisborne in the rain and cold last week, under a pair of darbi winter gloves they were not to bad, didn't feel too bulky. That said I did fit heated grips as soon as I got home and they do make ALL the difference. To keep the top of your hands warm you can try fitting bark buster type hand guards, this will keep most of the wind off of your hands and with heated grips you should be toasty warm whatever the weather. A couple of chemical heat pads stuffed in the gloves of the pillion will keep them toasty for up to 4 hours riding. though a pair of ski gloves over the riding ones works a treat too.

[willytheekid]

I use the Icebreaker thermal glove liners and find them really good, as they're not bulky.

I had some of those ...bloody good liners! (very warm and slim)

....then I moved house, havn't seen them since

gotta get some more...or some new winter gloves

[Usarka]

+1 icebreaker merino.

If it's a dry short ride or low speed commute in winter i often use summer gloves with these underneath.

But if your outer gloves are as windproof-less as a baked bean munchers forest of arse hairs then wooly insulation can only do so much.

[george formby]

I used to ride with polyprop under gloves in Scotland, you need to have big enough outer gloves to leave air space or it's a waste of time. Over mitts, bar muffs anything that will keep the wind off your hands is betterer. I had 2 4 ltr plastic containers covering the grips & levers on my trail bike, just like the tight arsed Scottish farmers. Lovely, warm, dry digits no matter how bad the weather.

[ellipsis]

I used to ride with polyprop under gloves in Scotland, you need to have big enough outer gloves to leave air space or it's a waste of time. Over mitts, bar muffs anything that will keep the wind off your hands is betterer. I had 2 4 ltr plastic containers covering the grips & levers on my trail bike, just like the tight arsed Scottish farmers. Lovely, warm, dry digits no matter how bad the weather.

...i have found that wearing liners whether they are woolen or poly under my gloves were of no use if an air space around my fingers wasn't there...my girl who sews made me mittens with thickish thermal material sewn onto the waterproof outer material...they are so much warmer than tight gloves...mittens are not everyones cup of tea though, it seems...

[Flip]

Heated bars, bar mits and thermal liners all work well.

I have only ever found and brought one set of gloves that I could fit a pair of liners under, these were a farking expensive set of Frank Thomas gloves I got in Scootland.