Yuk, wet gloves

[Swoop]

I hope they are drying out on top of your computer monitor at the moment. Mine are happily dripping away into ViewSonic's finest 15" product.

[vifferman]

I hope they are drying out on top of your computer monitor at the moment. Mine are happily dripping away into ViewSonic's finest 15" product.

The LCDs aren't as good as the CRTs to use as glubdryers, but airconned offices help somewhat. I have dual 19" LCDs, but it's impossible trying to balance gloves on them, so I park'em on top of my computer box thingo (technical term). Today, however, I took the Fart instead of the bike, as I had errands to run. 'Interesting' - I got stuck in traffic (couldn't lanesplit), the windows fogged up, the heater leaked (and stunk!), it overheated, the "injection system is about to explode" light came on, and I stalled it three times, which was a pain because to restart, you have to turn the key off first.
Apart from the hassle of the "drying all the gear" thing, I wish I'd taken the bike.

[Snakeman]

I use Bees Wax on my leather jackets and two-piece as well as my leather gloves which helps.
I still put on an oversuit when the rain is heavy and have been known to put the thin stretchy rubber gloves on over my leather ones when the weather has been real bad and I'm on an overnighter, rather than just a normal 400k day forum ride.
If my gloves still get wet and I am on "the 13" then I just turn on the heaters under my hand grips to keep them warm.
If I feel like playing in the hills when it's raining, I do prefer to take "the 11" (which also keeps me drier) and if my hands get too wet and cold, that is when I head home

[beyond]

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

Good one. Yep, the rules for wet weather riding are simple when it comes to gloves. If you ride a chopper and look like the missing link hanging out washing, then you wear your gloves over the cuff of your jacket.

If you ride a sporty with low bars or a sports tourer etc, you wear the cuffs over the top of your gloves and simply knip them up or velcro the cuff really tight.

[the mouse]

"RAIN OFF" over gloves are the bees knees, check out their web site. They have a pull string for around the arms, dry hands are warm hands. They also are a good tank painter.

http://www.rain-off.com/