silentbutdeadly
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I wear gloves when I ride. Got quite a few different pairs of gloves from a number of different brands that I can choose from depending on what bike I'm riding and the weather conditions in which I (at least) start riding in.
And they pretty much all fit...like a glove. Comfortable, sufficient dexterity and very much fit for purpose.
When I work with my hands around our property...the usual hand tools, machinery, gardening, fencing etc., I rarely if ever wear gloves.
Primarily because I am yet to find durable working gloves that provide the excellent fit and dexterity that riding gloves provide. I'm currently using a pair of ProSafe lined riggers gloves that feel like mittens.
I've used mechanics gloves before but they last about three weeks which gets expensive. Then there's the many variations of Ninja gloves which have always quickly felt like wearing an old sock dipped in latex.
The gloves I can feel something with and therefore coordinate my hands within are both expensive and not durable while the cheap and/or durable gloves seem isolate my hands from whatever it I'm trying to do and turns me into a doddering old fumble fingers...
The biggest hassle is that, after some decades of this, my hands are battered. I really should be wearing gloves. Otherwise the various calluses and rents might compromise my hold on various handlebars.
So why can I not find work gloves that I can actually work with? Do they not exist? Or am I being a princess...?
If anyone has found a pair of work gloves with the durability of riggers gloves and the dexterity, fit and feel of riding gloves then I'd really like to know what they are/were and where I might be able to find them.
And they pretty much all fit...like a glove. Comfortable, sufficient dexterity and very much fit for purpose.
When I work with my hands around our property...the usual hand tools, machinery, gardening, fencing etc., I rarely if ever wear gloves.
Primarily because I am yet to find durable working gloves that provide the excellent fit and dexterity that riding gloves provide. I'm currently using a pair of ProSafe lined riggers gloves that feel like mittens.
I've used mechanics gloves before but they last about three weeks which gets expensive. Then there's the many variations of Ninja gloves which have always quickly felt like wearing an old sock dipped in latex.
The gloves I can feel something with and therefore coordinate my hands within are both expensive and not durable while the cheap and/or durable gloves seem isolate my hands from whatever it I'm trying to do and turns me into a doddering old fumble fingers...
The biggest hassle is that, after some decades of this, my hands are battered. I really should be wearing gloves. Otherwise the various calluses and rents might compromise my hold on various handlebars.
So why can I not find work gloves that I can actually work with? Do they not exist? Or am I being a princess...?
If anyone has found a pair of work gloves with the durability of riggers gloves and the dexterity, fit and feel of riding gloves then I'd really like to know what they are/were and where I might be able to find them.
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