No Gloves

[biggs682]

But they look well cool...

with scars all over when they come off

 

[rusky]

But they look well cool...

No they don't.

To look well cool, you need jeans, a leather flight jacket & Rayban Aviators.

 

[numbnuts]

The Naked Bike Ride comes to mind

 

[fuji-stu]

no gloves! what do wipe all the snott and sweat with?

 

[screenman]

Riders without gloves do not go fast enough to sweat, like helmets gloves make you faster riders.

 

[screenman]

[QUOTE 1780721, member: 9609"]eh ? [/quote]

The proof is there for all to see, when was a bike race last won by a rider without gloves on?

 

[Edwards80]

My Mrs likes showing me pictures from her work as a vet - The type of injuries you get from sliding along tarmac with no gloves/protection on is called, fittingly, a "De-Gloving" injury - They look bloomin' horrendous, I imagine they look worse on a human than on a spaniel though!

Don't fancy that much, makes me cringe whenever I see anyone one a motorbike without leathers on.

(I didn't ask why the spaniel was riding a motorbike)

 

[colly]

Observe the rule: tuck and roll

Right ! The times I have come off/been knocked off pretty much it was ..........

''oh what a nice ride''......followed a few milliseconds later by...........''bugger me, I am sliding down/bouncing down/hitting the road''

Tuck and roll my arse.

 

[dellzeqq]

The Naked Bike Ride comes to mind

thankyou for that thought, numbnuts!

 

[rich p]

The proof is there for all to see, when was a bike race last won by a rider without gloves on?

There's a significant number of pros who ride without gloves.

 

[swee'pea99]

My mate arrived without gloves for this morning's 2 hour burn out to Essex. Boy was he sorry. It was freezing!

 

[thom]

I always use gloves with palm padding just to mitigate handlebar vibration.
And my hands do get cold, possibly due to the windchill factor due to riding at high speed giving me the early stages of frostbite (), or because I've inherited bad circulation from my mother...

 

[screenman]

Richp, have you any evidence of one crossing the line first without gloves on?

 

[fuji-stu]

mitts are are must around here the roads are rubbish

 

[Globalti]

It's all very well being ruffy-tuffy but I wear gloves because I don't fancy picking bits of gravel out of my hands and various small hand injuries in the past have shown me how much we take the full functioning of our hands for granted and how inconvenient life is when they are injured.

As for tucking and rolling, ha ha! The only times I've had bad bike falls it has happened so fast that my brain hasn't caught up with events until I've been lying on the ground wondering what went wrong.