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Being too cheap to buy real winter gloves (hard to justify in Northern California where the temps don't dip below 40F very often and it doesn't rain that much), I ordered a pair of Fieldsheer Overgloves from motorcycle-superstore.com. I figured for $10.99 it was worth it to find out if they worked.
Fieldsheer Overgloves
Fit:
Buy the size you need, they run right on. I wear medium gloves but ordered the small overgloves based on a recommendation of a friend and am glad I did. Since you're putting a glove over a glove you don't want a lot of extra material. The material is super thin and I hardly notice that they are on. They group your index and middle fingers together and your pinky and ring finger together so you look like a sleestack from Land of the Lost but that's no problem for me.
Rain:
They work okay. After an hour in moderate rain at 55mph my hands were pretty darn dry. The fingertips of my gloves were damp but not soaked.
Cold:
This is where I love them! My fingers get painfully cold on my 40min, 75mph commute when the temperature is below 40F. I put these on even when it's not raining and notice a huge difference; the windproof material locks in some air which helps to insulate. Today I rode to work in 35F clear weather and my fingers were chilly at the end but not cold and certainly not painfully cold.
Overall, well worth the $10.99 I spent on them. No plans to spend money on winter gloves.
Fieldsheer Overgloves
Fit:
Buy the size you need, they run right on. I wear medium gloves but ordered the small overgloves based on a recommendation of a friend and am glad I did. Since you're putting a glove over a glove you don't want a lot of extra material. The material is super thin and I hardly notice that they are on. They group your index and middle fingers together and your pinky and ring finger together so you look like a sleestack from Land of the Lost but that's no problem for me.
Rain:
They work okay. After an hour in moderate rain at 55mph my hands were pretty darn dry. The fingertips of my gloves were damp but not soaked.
Cold:
This is where I love them! My fingers get painfully cold on my 40min, 75mph commute when the temperature is below 40F. I put these on even when it's not raining and notice a huge difference; the windproof material locks in some air which helps to insulate. Today I rode to work in 35F clear weather and my fingers were chilly at the end but not cold and certainly not painfully cold.
Overall, well worth the $10.99 I spent on them. No plans to spend money on winter gloves.
