Cold fingers

[jimboalee]

my hands are fine, just the fingers....

Cut the fingers off, and just use the fingers.

 

[jimboalee]

I'd use silk liners. Currently I find my SealSkinz quite warm enough once I've cycled a bit.

A couple of tips:
Start out warm - put your glove son the radiator etc when not in use
Cover your wrists - keep your whole arm warm, espeically the wrists where the blood flow is close to the surface. This should help keep your fingers warmer
cycle slower - and in a lower gear - high leg revs build up core warmth, and cutting out even a few mph of windchill makes a lot of difference at low temps.

I'd like to mention at this point.

The heat expulsion of the processes within the muscle fibres are proportional to effort.
A high cadence will probably be closer to your most efficient revs, therefore a lower effort for the speed.
A very low cadence will be well below optimum efficiency, so you will be giving more effort for the speed.

My recommendations for a quick warm-up would be to roll along at a LOW cadence pushing hard with every pedalstroke. Maybe lifting bum off seat.
Not belting the pedals round with low force on the pedals. That will only shock cold joints.

During warm-up, change up gear and push even harder.

 

[biking_fox]

The heat expulsion of the processes within the muscle fibres are proportional to effort.
A high cadence will probably be closer to your most efficient revs, therefore a lower effort for the speed.
A very low cadence will be well below optimum efficiency, so you will be giving more effort for the speed.

My recommendations for a quick warm-up would be to roll along at a LOW cadence pushing hard with every pedalstroke. Maybe lifting bum off seat.
Not belting the pedals round with low force on the pedals. That will only shock cold joints.

During warm-up, change up gear and push even harder.

a few rebuttals:

I can't cycle slowly (see point about windchill) in high gear.
Don't get confused with efficiancy and warmth per stroke versus total. . 6 rpm will be hard work - but only 6 revs. 100rpm is also hard work, but 100 movements.
There's no such thing as shocking cold joints. Warming up makes no difference to injury rates.

YMMV but having tried both I know which works for me.

 

[gbb]

For a cheap fix i use when commuting short distances, put on a pair of disposable latex gloves under your normal ones. It helps a lot, but you do get sweaty hands if you overdo it. It effectively makes your hands windproof.

 

[garrilla]

For a cheap fix i use when commuting short distances, put on a pair of disposable latex gloves under your normal ones. It helps a lot, but you do get sweaty hands if you overdo it. It effectively makes your hands windproof.

I took a pair of DHB waterproof winter gloves to pieces last year. They were effectively a silky liner glove, a nitrile (blue latex) glove, and the outer glove made of a foam-backed nylon. Oh, and some additional patching on the palm.

The liner was only connected at the wrist, stitched, while the latex glove was glued to the foam.

I'm guessing that this is the basic construction of a winter glove.

 

[jimboalee]

a few rebuttals:

I can't cycle slowly (see point about windchill) in high gear.
Don't get confused with efficiancy and warmth per stroke versus total. . 6 rpm will be hard work - but only 6 revs. 100rpm is also hard work, but 100 movements.
There's no such thing as shocking cold joints. Warming up makes no difference to injury rates.

YMMV but having tried both I know which works for me.

I was taught, and teach the practice of 'mobility exercises' before any rapid movements.
In the old days, this was called 'limbering up', and was done by performing slow, rythmical movements of the joints.
Correct me if I'm talking shite, but there's stuff called Synovial Fluid between Articular Cartilage. It needs to be warmed and circulated to give proper lubricated joints.
Not doing this is asking for Arthritis.

On a cold morning like this one today, the last thing I would do is go out at 90 rpm straight from the start. 60 rpm in an appropriate gear that I can feel beneath my feet for a few minutes should do the trick.

Where you got 6 and 100 rpm from,,, who knows?

 

[PK99]

Glove liners might be the answer.

I had some last year (merino wool) which were great, but I didn't realise that merino wool and normal wash cycles don't mix (they shrunk so much I could no longer wear them).

So I'm looking for glove liners at the moment myself. Any recommendations?

silk

cheap version available on markets in french ski resorts!

 

[PK99]

Which one is better : silk liner or merino liner?
Give they cost about the same

silk are easier to wash - just toss them in with the rest of the kit

 

[knonist]

Cut the fingers off, and just use the fingers.

just like my dad,
when I was young, if i complain somewhere in my body hurts (ie fingers), he will often said " cut off the fingers and your fingers wont cause a pain anymore