Traumatic demise of an old friend

[NordieBoy]

She's a hard road finding the perfect glove mate.

If I manage to track down a pair that I can actually get on the fingers are always too short.

And they all seem to use the same armour right across the range, so the 4 knuckle lumps cover just my middle two.

I have about 6 pair of gloves. None of them fit too well, I just bought them in reteliation for 'er indoors shoe purchase binges.

The ones that work best out of the lot are the cheapie Dryrider mesh ones. I've killed two pair of XXL.

This is about 4 pairs out of date...

[almoto]

They're a nice wide fit, the leather is nice and soft and the fingers are too short.

I also 1 finger brake quite a bit and the brake lever hits the bubble on the knuckle and you don't slow down much at all

What's your measurement across the palm and middle finger length?

Mate...finally got tool free reach adjustment on my brakes...yeeha
but can be hard on finger if reach is too far out...
re: hitting 'bubble knuckle' on your glove if reach is further in... way better with reach out than no reach at all eg. fading .

Now we are looking for luck...here we go: palm without thumb 225mm/8 andahalf to 9 inches/large.
Middlefinger length 85mm

[almoto]

QUOTE: This is about 4 pairs out of date...



What are those ones above the 'ICONs' that you cut the cuffs off (?).
Happy gloves?
Cutting cuffs off is good (in summer): More airflow up jacket and easier to get on and off (fast).
(Also easy to come off hands when sliding down the track...but...)

[NordieBoy]

Now we are looking for luck...here we go: palm without thumb 225mm/8 andahalf to 9 inches/large.
Middlefinger length 85mm

OK.
They'll fit nicely but may be uncomfortable for finger length.
They cost me about $150 5-6 years ago and I had to wait for a guy on TradeMe to get some in of the right size/colour which took several months.

What are those ones above the 'ICONs' that you cut the cuffs off (?).
Happy gloves?
Cutting cuffs off is good (in summer): More airflow up jacket and easier to get on and off (fast).

I don't like cuffs.

The palm leather is so thin, it's like not wearing gloves.
Unfortunately that also means they get holes more easily...

[almoto]

$150 new... but 'you get what you pay for'.

What is your palm measurement so I get an idea from your photos how tight/loose they would be on me? I need them reasonable tight to start off with.

The glove fingers can be stretched a little with water and a rod (soak, rod in under tension... oil before totally dry, keep in shade, repeat if necessary).

And I can see now that something needs to be done about the colour of that knuckle armor (maybe sandpaper down to the beige underneath and then some ink into the open pores of the plastic).

[Ocean1]

This is about 4 pairs out of date...

Someone needs to relieve you of your credit card, Imelda.

[johannvr]

For general light-duty summer riding I've used a pair of RavX "Full-X" Mountain Biking gloves for some years now & find them great. No armour & real padding & so on though, so defintely light application only.

The specific ones no longer available by the looks of it, but very similar to this:

http://www.ravx.com/products/gloves/drifter_x.html

[NordieBoy]

Someone needs to relieve you of your credit card, Imelda.

I don't throw away old gloves.
There's road/dirt/mx/summer/winter/wet gloves in there...
Most have been bought 2nd hand.

I was tempted to cut open the fingers/thumbs of the Icon's and use them as the most badass MTB gloves in the world

[almoto]

I don't throw away old gloves.
There's road/dirt/mx/summer/winter/wet gloves in there...
Most have been bought 2nd hand.


I was tempted to cut open the fingers/thumbs of the Icon's and use them as the most badass MTB gloves in the world

Thats right...the story of age old wisdom...


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[almoto]

Ebay australia has some good choices.
They have the all ready mentioned Troy lee apex, Fox bomber, some Teknic, all sorts of Icons...

[Taz]

Went to Boyds today and bought some Alpinestars SP3 gloves. Tried to also buy some Dri Rider RallyX gloves but they couldn't find the the L/H glove and as I have 2 hands that just wouldn't have worked

[NordieBoy]

Went to Boyds today and bought some Alpinestars SP3 gloves. Tried to also buy some Dri Rider RallyX gloves but they couldn't find the the L/H glove and as I have 2 hands that just wouldn't have worked

What size Dririder RallyX you after?

You should ask first

[Ocean1]

Alpinestars SP3 gloves.(

They look like a good compromise dude.

I've seen a pair of gloves with a feature that interested me. Duno what the gloves were but they had webbing between the pinky and him next door, out to about half length.

Interested me because I've broken both pinkies. The left one was probably going to happen anyway but the RH one got bent back by a gate post and I'm pretty sure the web would've saved it.

[Taz]

What size Dririder RallyX you after?

You should ask first

Large .

[Taz]

This be them. None of that gay namby pamby carbon or plastic bullshit all over them just a little padding and extra layers here and there. Light cool and comfy.