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After over ten years of faithfull warm and dry service, I have finally succumbed to style and fashion peer pressure, and lashed out on a new set of winter gloves.

The current pair are a set og Frank Thomas Goretex winter gloves. They have been brilliant and are actually not worn out. I just wanted to see if gloves had progressed in ten years?

I was looking for another set of gloves which feature a Goretex liner. This in my opinion is the driest most breathable of all the waterproof fabrics, ie-Hipora, dritec etc.,

It's a tad exxie on the budget, but once again, my last set still work great and are ten years old, so maybe there is something to be said about looking for quality after all.

However wanting a Goretex lined glove also made my choices a little limited. After hunting around several shops I chose a set of Dianese D-Tec Goretex gloves. I found they fit my hands..........well......like a glove

They features armour over the knuckles and finger joints like a pucka sports glove, but it is descretely hidden, with the current style of streching the leather over the armour being employed to locate the gaurds. A conventional velcro wrist strap ensures the gloves don't fall off in the event of a spill, and they have a neat little rubberised tag on the cuff which assists in pulling the gloves on. This is especially handy when pulling glove #2 on with a gloved #1 hand I could also imagine, as I have not yet tried the wet weather prowess of these gloves, that in the wet this tag would be even more appreciated.

The cuffs are perhaps a touch narrow, however unlike some people, I tuck my winter gloves in under my wet weather jacket. I find the other way water rolls down the back of the jacket sleeve and seeps into the glove from there. So this narrow cuff suits me just fine.

I am planning a short day ride Sunday, and as rain is predicted may have a wet weather evaluation for you then. If not it will probably rain on my little trip away.

As a second option, I found my DriRider Adventure gloves the ducks guts.

$100 from PS was fairly good I thought.

And they stayed dry for 3 hours in the pissing rain, and warm for 4 hours.

No goretex like the dainese, but instead hipora waterproof liner and thinsulate for the warmth.

Again a nice long velcro strap thats easy to do with the gloves on, and a draw string around the cuff that has a big dohicky on the end thats easy enough to get a hold off with gloved fingers.

Cheaper alternate to the dainese anyway.

Hmm worth thinking about if i make another gp ride but wont be doing one this year.

I used a big pair of pink dish gloves over tha top of my normal gloves when it rained on the gp trip but something very warm and water proof would have been even better.

The last day we did about 600kms in the pissing down rain and thank god it finished in qld.

What's the damage $ on the gloves Strika?

For my winter gloves I am using a pair of gloves that I bought during the heat of summer. Thats right, on one of those 40 degree days I was sick of my old gloves and bought some really cool AGV Sport vented gloves... awesome on a hot day because the little vents allow air to run across your hands.... Not so nice in the winter though...

mick_dundee wrote:What's the damage $ on the gloves Strika?

I think the RRP is $199.00, However they sold them to me for $170.00.

From memory, when I bought my Frank Thomas Goretex gloves over ten years ago they were $139.00. So I was pleasantly surprised by the value they still are. I looked at the $90-$120 gloves too, but none had Goretex. They were all Hipora and similiar equivelents, which if you have used Goretex, will know just doesn't work as well. So I lashed out and exceeded the budget.

I was smart about it too, as far as the Bride is concerned! I originally told her it would be $240 out of the budget. So when I arrived home spending only $170, boy was she happy.

I am heading out for a ride today. Pity it's not raining. I find a good drenching of the new gloves on the first ride, beds them in perfectly and a lot more rapidly than in the dry. I am going ot take the old gloves with me, just in case the new ones become tiresome over the length of the day. I rode home in them Yesterday for about 40 mins all up, and they appeared OK, but you know what things get like over a long period of time.

my dririder ones do the trick. dont know what they are by they work fine

i dont have "winter" gloves AhHH QUEENSLAND

Just got back from a lap of the spurs and winter tested the gloves. they worked a treat. no rain, but plenty cold up there (8 degress on Dangerous daves ambient meter) but not a chill all day. Oh and they hold up wel to a crash too!!!

mate i reckon u've been to the spur this year more than u've been home.

lucky bastard