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New Glove Recommendation?

Bines

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I've a pair of BiLT leather mesh gloves with reinforced palms and plastic knuckles. They're plenty comfy, worked well in the summer, did okay in the winter with Anti Freeze liners, and are still in mostly one piece after 7,800 miles. The suede like material on the palms has mostly rubbed off and there's a small tear in one cuff along the hem.

I'm thinking about a pair of gloves with armor or padding in the palms. Leather mesh is still appealing. Knuckle protection, too. They should be good for summer wear. I'm okay with using liners, or even different gloves, in the winter.

What do y'all like? $50 or less preferred, but I'd go higher for a really good pair.
 
lots of brands. i like my klims. they're made for women so the fingers are longer and fit well. check out scorpion brand, too.
 
I don't have any suggestions for $50. I like my Vanson Pro-Perf engineer gloves for super hot weather and my Aerostich Competition Ropers for not-so-hot weather.
 
... I'm thinking about a pair of gloves with armor or padding in the palms. Leather mesh is still appealing. Knuckle protection, too. They should be good for summer wear. I'm okay with using liners, or even different gloves, in the winter.

What do y'all like? $50 or less preferred, but I'd go higher for a really good pair.

My hands were soaking wet & the A-Stars "Lumidex Tech Road Gore-Tex" gloves with the C-fiber knuckle guards that are wonderful for road-riding in cool, dry weather were saturated and abt twice their normal weight, and mass, by Lunch at the J. Lewis 1-Day school last year. Went searching in Beautiful Downtown Pahrump (a-tump-tum), NV, after class and found a pair of Speed & Strength Enduro gloves at the Kawalski shop (only game in town), not far from the Nugget Casino & Hotel where I stayed, ~$35 and absolutely SUPERB for hot-weather riding. (I recommend the RV campground next door, it has cabins and I sponged off their WiFi, and that at Denny's, for 3 days while The Nugget was experiencing "Technical Difficulties," as in NO WiFi except at one table in the 24/7 Cafe, and that only on the 1st evening I was there!)

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Aside, do NOT go to the KTM Shoppe on the south side of Decatur looking for anything not MX-focused. Apparently, that's all they care about; the huge majority of the Bikey World might as well not exist. Just IMO, of course, but I'm parked there with a 500EXC that had just successfully raced Baja Rally 3.0, ridden by Ms. Jenifer Morgan of Ye Olde, with NO problems and they couldn't have cared less. But there's a very cute little gal (abt 18-19, looked like, younger than all but two of my six g'kids) who races MX so she can tell me everything I might want to know, about anything with two wheels, and any kit I might want. Yeah, Buddy!!! :thpt:
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The most protective and versatile gloves I own are a pair of elk skin ropers. Mine are Aerostich, but there are other brands. They are tough, protective, pliable and inexpensive. I wear them from 100 degrees down to about 50. Mine are at least five years old.

http://www.aerostich.com/aerostich-elkskin-roper-gloves-16.html

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:tab Whatever you get, I strongly recommend gloves that have some kind of wrist strap that keeps the glove from being pulled off the hand. If you find yourself sliding down the road, it is VERY possible you will end up face down, meaning palm down. You might not think about it, but that friction can easily remove a glove. I did a face down 70mph slide and the strap kept my gloves in place even though the cuff was worn pretty bad. Another thing you might not realize is that unless you practice, the natural reaction for most people when going down is to hold TIGHT to the grips. The friction between the hand and grip when the grip is ripped from the hand can pull off gloves. In that accident where I slid at 70mph, the ends of ALL my fingers were bruised from the grips being ripped from my hands. The finger tips of the gloves were pulled back inside themselves about halfway. But for that wrist strap, the gloves might have come off completely. As it was, they stayed on and did a pretty good job of protecting my hands. I did have a cut on my right thumb where the glove eventually wore through from the sliding.
 
The only difference I see is the wiper on the thumb of the Aerostich gloves. I find it very handy.
 
I wear leather roper gloves at work. They're a great all around glove.

Most def on a secure cuff.
 
I won't get five years out of work gloves, though. The wastewater industry is tough on things.

My BiLT off road gloves, that's what they call them, have held up okay in their second life as general purpose gloves. I doubt they make it through 2016.

These BiLT gloves I motorcycle with now will become bicycle and kayak gloves.
 
I run the best winter gloves I've ever found- [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Tour-Master-Winter-Elite-Gloves/dp/B005LLQR6O"]Tourmaster Winter Elite II.[/ame] They also have the thumb squeegee on the left hand. I've worn them down to 23degF on my commute, with HotHands packs in them on the backs of my hands, and had no issue. They have a built-in rain fly that helps to keep the wind off also.
 
Those Tourmaster look similar to the Spartan thinsulate gloves I have. They were used when I got them, and I used them more.
 
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... I'm thinking about a pair of gloves with armor or padding in the palms. Leather mesh is still appealing. Knuckle protection, too. They should be good for summer wear. I'm okay with using liners, or even different gloves, in the winter. ...

I run the best winter gloves I've ever found- *snip*

Ahhh, errm, ahem . . . . . :mrgreen:

I have several pair of WINTER gloves and NONE of them are worth a toot for fine clutch and throttle control when it's tight going. If I'm freezing, I ain't gonna be doing that kind of riding so big ol' gauntlets with mitten-like rain covers are fine, as are Hippo Hands. Picking a way thru rocks and cacti? Nope.
 
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I had the winter elite gloves and under 40'ish without some sort of other heating; they just weren't warm enough for me. But then again I really like my hands to be toasty warm. I went away from those to Gerbings and my only regret was not doing it years sooner. Sure they are expensive but I am going on 6 years now and my hands are toasty warm with the turn of a little dial.


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:tab Whatever you get, I strongly recommend gloves that have some kind of wrist strap that keeps the glove from being pulled off the hand. If you find yourself sliding down the road, it is VERY possible you will end up face down, meaning palm down. You might not think about it, but that friction can easily remove a glove. I did a face down 70mph slide and the strap kept my gloves in place even though the cuff was worn pretty bad. Another thing you might not realize is that unless you practice, the natural reaction for most people when going down is to hold TIGHT to the grips. The friction between the hand and grip when the grip is ripped from the hand can pull off gloves. In that accident where I slid at 70mph, the ends of ALL my fingers were bruised from the grips being ripped from my hands. The finger tips of the gloves were pulled back inside themselves about halfway. But for that wrist strap, the gloves might have come off completely. As it was, they stayed on and did a pretty good job of protecting my hands. I did have a cut on my right thumb where the glove eventually wore through from the sliding.

I've seen video of a racer's glove flying off just from the centripetal force as his body rotated through the air. The importance of retention can't be over-stressed.
 
The most protective and versatile gloves I own are a pair of elk skin ropers. Mine are Aerostich, but there are other brands. They are tough, protective, pliable and inexpensive. I wear them from 100 degrees down to about 50. Mine are at least five years old.

http://www.aerostich.com/aerostich-elkskin-roper-gloves-16.html

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there's a reason ranch hands wear these for building barbed wire fences!!!

and a reason the world trekkers wear them...

for colder weather, a pair of SMART WOOL LINERS will keep the old digits warm

MINK OIL 'em & your hands will stay dry

ELK SKIN is available thru several sources, m/c, cowboy, farm...

and they come in several styles, incl gauntlets

just this old man's experience

sw
 
When they are the color shown are they not dyed?
 
I second Kurt's recommendation for the plain old elkskin gloves.

I found out that Aerostich's gloves are made by Geier, so I ordered some from Amazon back when they were like 35$ compared to whatever they are at Aerostich:

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002T6EL8?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=od_aui_detailpages00"]Geier Glove Men's Elkskin Gloves with Snap Size 10 Color Black at Amazon Men’s Clothing store: Cold Weather Gloves[/ame]

evidentally Geier got wise to it and now theirs are 60$ too.

I used their Deerskin gloves before, and they're nice but they do wear through eventually. The elkskin ones are difficult to mess up.
 
What size gloves do you wear Bines? I have a pair of cortech accelerator in XL you can have for whatever shipping costs. Got them in a raffle and didn't like the fit. Using Rev'it dirt 2 in hot weather and phantom gtx in cooler weather now.
 
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