What gloves to buy for winter ?

[flat eric]

Hi,

I've got £80 - £100 to spend on some decent winter gloves.

probably buy them from the bike show this year, as hoping to get a discount while the show is on.

Can anyone suggest a glove I check out ?

I've been looking at some Alpinestars Jet road Gore-Tex.
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[Andy_Pagin]

Spend your money on Tucano Urbano muffs instead, much more effective than any winter gloves.
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[flat eric]

Good suggestion.

Something to think about.
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[G]

Another vote for those muffs.

Get muffs first, then consider next move - be it heated grips or gloves.

[Rogerborg]

I've already got mine fitted.

You're welcome for the hot weather.
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[ukdiceman]

[FretGrinder]

Another vote here for the muffs.

Good winter gloves can be OK for a while, but the tips of your fingers will become cold in no time, even with heated grips.

What you need is a pair of the aforementioned Urbano Tucano muffs, your hands WILL stay toasty warm in even the coldest of our crappy British winters.

Have a good search on the forum and you will find plenty of threads on muffs and how people are recommending them.

HTH
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[DrDonnyBrago]

+1 muffs.

[WetAndCold]

And if you're as good looking as me you don't have to pay for muff.
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[flat eric]

Cheers guys. Looks like muffs are the way to go.
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[stinkwheel]

And they definately don't pull your brake/clutch on?

Even at mumble mumble miles per hour?

Any muffs I've tried in the past have promised not to do this and entirely failed to deliver on that promise when put to the test.
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[_Iain_]

Cheapo handguards (bigger the better) £20, Daytona heated grips £40-50ish, Muffs £15-20.

You wont be getting cold hands or squished clutch/brake levers.
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[G]

The time I have had it pushing on the clutch etc is on a sports bike with me sitting up too much so the muffs angled down.
They didn't push against, but did make it harder to get your hand on the levers.

This was, on the autobahn, of course, approaching twice the limit which we would have in the UK.

They mount on your bar ends and are pretty stiff, so can't push back.
You are supposed to cable tie them on, but I never bother - they do pop of some times, but I like being able to take them off/put them on in 20 seconds if desired.

On my ZX9 I made a bracket to stop normal muffs doing this and it worked fine - I used a bit of old shelving but proper dirt bike guards work even better.

[P.]

[Rogerborg]

[-Matt-]

Never used muffs, but as a good addition in either case i'd give a big thumbs up for spada enforcers.

Going by my normal sizing i can get a pair of thinsulate thermal ski gloves inside them also which have kept me warm in sub 0's for rides upto a couple of hours fairly well

IIRC about 50 pound and that was a while back so well within budget, maybe even along with the muffs

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

[matlow]

I've just ordered a set of these on the recommend of this thread. cheers all!
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[Serendipity]

Ooo, I like to post in the annual muff thread.

I used the old Oxford style muffs for years. They were a bit crap and pushed back on the levers just like Stinkwheel suggested, but I still used them because they were far more effective than the best winter gloves.

Roll on to winter 2010 and I heard about Tucano Urbano muffs at exactly the right time, just as I started a new job with a longer motorway commute. I didn’t know it, but they turned out to exactly what I needed. How serendipitous eh?

I got a pair of the neoprene ones and fitted them to my CB500. They were so good I bought a second pair to use on my CBR600 to save swapping them around. I moved that pair to my CBF1000 once I bought that and took them straight to Scotland to keep my hands dry on the wettest tour... ....EVER!

I’ve not yet been able to make them push back on the levers despite occasionally touching whispermph on private roads.

I do tend to cable tie them on. I find it distracting when they come loose on the motorway and flap around so I also cable tie the rubber sleeve that slips over the bar end. That stops it falling off.

They saved my fingers through winter 2010 and 2011. I used the same pair of summer gloves throughout. Then for winter 2012 (which extended well into 2013 if you remember) I also fitted heated grips.

Very nice. Highly recommended combo.

Using muffs is a little bit of a compromise. I won’t deny that riding the bike without them is much nicer, but that sort of give me something to look forward to when spring arrives. It’s very much like that first ride when you put your summer gloves back on after using winter mitts. It’s amazing how much feel and control you have over the bike.

What are they these days? Just under £40? That’s a bargain for what they provide. And they really don’t turn you gay, at least that’s what my girlfriend Brian tells me.
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