Review: Warm & comfortable, even when wet… cycling GripGrab
are good at keeping your hands comfortable even if water does eventually get through. But there are loads of good gloves out there, which is one reason ourThese GripGrab gloves are surprisingly warm given their light weight and low bulk. Starting a morning ride at 8°C I expected to get cold hands until the sun got up. I was wrong. My hands were completely warm and comfortable.
This isn't very surprising. Short of a double layer of Marigolds sealed around your forearms with multiple turns of duck tape, it's impossible to make gloves that are properly waterproof. Those Marigolds would get sweaty and unpleasant very quickly, and that's the problem: if you want gloves to be nice to wear, you have to make them out of fabric of some sort. That means seams and flexibility, both of which eventually let water through.
What I really like about these gloves is how free the movement of your fingers is in them. I literally typed this paragraph while wearing them and while I had to fix a few typos they didn't slow me down by much, which is not something I could say about some of my favourite winter gloves. That freedom comes from the sheer flexibility of the knitted layers, something you don't get with gloves made from waterproof hardshell and softshell fabrics.
I asked GripGrab why there were no touchscreen tips on these gloves and in one of the fastest customer service interactions ever I was told: 'At that time, it was not an option for our supplier to put it into the glove. We know it's a shortcoming, but we're working to change it.' Maybe next winter then.I'm going to take this opportunity to relay the best tip I've ever come across about winter gloves: carry a spare pair.
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