Yuk, wet gloves

[Rev DJ]

Okay, riding in the rain is no fun (unless you're a fish that can reach the foot-pegs ). I was out a couple of days ago and got caught in a heavy shower. My Ixon gear was great - kept me dry. Boots good and gloves working well.
THEN - after about ten minutes of riding in the rain, water found its way into my gloves by running down the back of my sleeve and down beneath the cuff. Yuk. The gloves are DriRider's - they work well and I dont get water coming through the glove shell - except for this annoying egress down my sleeve - any ideas? How can I stop this - apart from only riding in the dry!!!
Cheers DJ

[yungatart]

Tuck the top edge of your gloves underneath the cuff of your wets' sleeve.

[Nasty]

...THEN - after about ten minutes of riding in the rain, water found its way into my gloves by running down the back of my sleeve and down beneath the cuff. Yuk. ...

Its really simple ... you have your jacket sleeves over the gloves in the rain ... this way the water does not run down into the gloves.

[yod]

put the cuff of the jacket over the cuff of the glove, don't put the jacket cuff inside the cuff of the glove

thats a bad cuff i've got

robitussin

edit: argh...too slow

[Rev DJ]

I had thought about tucking my cuffs under my sleeve but wouldnt water then be able to make its way up the sleeve? Would it be as bad as the gloves over the sleeve situation? Cheers DJ

[tri boy]

Very little water is forced up a jacket cuff, compared to the water tracking down the jacket arm and then into the glove.
Definitely put the jacket cuff over the glove in heavy rain. Also use bees wax to water proof the glove if it isn't very water proof. (esspecially the finger tips).

[firecrab]

also - nice way to dry wet gloves: stuff newspaper into them - wait for an hour, change until dry - works even better with wet boots.

[Timaa]

i had a pair of dri rider gloves, from red baron even and i rode for about an hour in the rain and i could ring the water from inside the glove after that. i got a refund and they went to the factory whi said there was nothing wrong with them, dri rider sucks, then i traded up to the clover gloves and they still wernt waterproof, so i have the to pof the line glove and it still cant keep out water , its silly really, $200 for a glove that doesnt do wat its supposed to. so i just got the racing gloves from clover and they are the most waterproof of them all for some reason, maybe the dynamics or something, either way my hand seems to stay dry. lol

[PrincessBandit]

Don't a lot of sleeves have velcro so you can close them closer around your wrists? Failing that, ride with big plastic bags over your hands fastened with rubber bands half way up your arms....

[homer]

I dont know why peoples dont buy decent gloves ,
sorry actually i dont know why they dont make decent gloves
I have some 11 year old thinsulate lether gloves , theres a small pocket on the underneath ,and theres a waterproof nylon cover , which you put over the entire glove .
keeps wind out and rain out
no problem

[Rev DJ]

hey, thanks for all the advice on this thread - and for the PM's. I tried the sleeve-over-glove config and it worked a treat - and my DriRider gloves did the trick - cool. Its great to be able to tap into good advice so easily - Cheers DJ

[yod]

hey, thanks for all the advice on this thread - and for the PM's. I tried the sleeve-over-glove config and it worked a treat - and my DriRider gloves did the trick - cool. Its great to be able to tap into good advice so easily - Cheers DJ

if you ever start riding a cruiser (i.e: hands above elbows), go back to having the glove over the jacket cuff

gravity's a bitch



stay dry out there

[disenfranchised]

I've just got some new gloves...sticking to the summer/racing style cause I can't stand how those padded gloves feel...so I don't expect they'll be waterproof at all.

But I'm going to try the snowboard shops.
I've seen something where they have a normal glove, with an over mitten...which just goes over the back of the hand and hooks over the finger tips...thus not being all nasty and padded around your palm.

[Dave Lobster]

Hein Gerrick two fingered gloves are waterproof. Not sure if they'll mail order to here. My brother sent me some from the UK. About $100.

My last pair lasted about twelve years before they wore out. I never had wet hands, and I used the bike for work nearly every day in that time.

[vifferman]

Here's another solution: buy some oilskin over-mittens from "wherever they sell them I can't remember right now". You can also get waterproof nylon ones.
The problem with almost all 'waterproof' gloves is that they rely on a waterproof membrane to keep the water out of the inside of the glove. Unfortunately, this membrane is under the leather outer (which will soak up water like a sponge if it's not treated with SnoSeal or whatever), and it's also fairly fragile, so it develops holes fairly readily. Lastly, it is very much governed by Murphy's Law, so you can guarantee that if it develops a small pinprick, it will somehow manage to suck vast quantities of water in through the hole, but somehow the water will be unable to get out again.
The best solution is to try to keep the water completely outside your gloves to start with.