Fingerless gloves.....
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From: Maryland near DC
{So, if I understand this correctly, it has the same function as the string on a tampon?}
Nope, thats a fuse...just try lighting it sometime and see if the bit*** doesn't blow up on you...
Nope, thats a fuse...just try lighting it sometime and see if the bit*** doesn't blow up on you...
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From: southeast PA
I think I saw something posted here a while back that said there are only 2 places on your body that they can't graft skin to- your heels and palms. That may or not be so but I've always worn boots and some kind of gloves (my palms mean a lot to me). My fingerless gloves had fingers when I bought them in '87 and when the tips wore off I just cut em back.
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I think I saw something posted here a while back that said there are only 2 places on your body that they can't graft skin to- your heels and palms. That may or not be so but I've always worn boots and some kind of gloves (my palms mean a lot to me). My fingerless gloves had fingers when I bought them in '87 and when the tips wore off I just cut em back.
its funny they have been around since time , but on this forum people say they are for posers .
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From: Southern California
Others have mentioned a number of reasons why to wear fingerless gloves: Vibration, Road Rash, etc. Actually the reason I originally bought mine is Sunburn. One of the downsides to living in the Sunny Southwest. I don't get tan. I'm part of the Burn & Peel crowd. Hence fingerless gloves and if I wear full gloves it is just way to hot! I also wear full sleeve "T" shirts in the summer for the same reason. And I still get sunburned on my face, neck and wrists . . . even with sun block!
Oh yea, and you don't have to take your gloves off to pick your nose!
Oh yea, and you don't have to take your gloves off to pick your nose!
Road Warrior
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From: Vancouver Island British Colombia Canada
Fingerless gloves came into the biking world of apparel many moons ago when bikers that rode on sleds with shovels, knuckles & pans needed gloves for hand protection but also needed their fingers for the constant adjusting of carbs & other parts on older iron. It was too much labour to continually pull your gloves off to tweak your scoot at stop lights etc so they just started cutting off the fingers so they had the feel that they needed & protection if they went down.
I have worn them for over 25 years of biking for that reason.
Hatch.
I have worn them for over 25 years of biking for that reason.
Hatch.
Tourer
Joined: Feb 2008
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From: SW Iowa
Fingerless gloves came into the biking world of apparel many moons ago when bikers that rode on sleds with shovels, knuckles & pans needed gloves for hand protection but also needed their fingers for the constant adjusting of carbs & other parts on older iron. It was too much labour to continually pull your gloves off to tweak your scoot at stop lights etc so they just started cutting off the fingers so they had the feel that they needed & protection if they went down.
I have worn them for over 25 years of biking for that reason.
Hatch.
I have worn them for over 25 years of biking for that reason.
Hatch.
Some people out here need to start riding past the Starbucks or get out of their city limits and see some of the things worn have some function to them, just my 0.02
Road Master
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From: Upstate NY
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I wear fingerless gloves on long rides in warm weather. I keeps my hands from feeling sweaty on the grips. But if I'm just going on a short trip like the store for the wife, no gloves.