It is time for me to start looking at summer gloves as the heat starts to set in here in the midwest. What do you recommend? I would like something that flows quite a bit of air, but still offers a lot of protection. I am thinking about the Joe Rocket Supermoto Gloves or the Icon Pursuits. Anyone have some first hand experience with these 2 models or any others similar? O0 :thumb:
ALL LEATHER GLOVES.
Even in the summer it's important. Get some shorty ones like the Supermoto, but make sure they are all leather. GOOD leather, at that. Icon Pursuit gloves are cheap ass leather and rip as soon as they touch pavement, from what I've heard.
Check out these, Olympia Terminators:
(http://www.newenough.com/product_pictures/o/olympia_744_terminator_glove/200w.jpg)
Quote from: AlphaFire X5 on June 12, 2006, 10:49:52 AMALL LEATHER GLOVES.
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You can find some ALL LEATHER (no cloth, no mesh) gloves that are cool enough for any hot weather...
Your jacket is going to increase your heat more than your gloves... Don't skimp on the gloves. :nono:
I have kangaroo hyde and leather gloves :cookoo: Carbon fibre knuckles and fingers as well as kevlar reinforced padding on the outside lower palm. They are gauntlets not supermoto gloves tho. Wonderful. They have small plastic hump type things on the knuckles and finger joints with little vents so when your going along you streighten your fingers out into the wind and cool air rushes throughout the entire glove.
I've got some Icon Purist gloves. My hands don't get hot and they didn't rip when I crashed. They are scuffed on the left palm, but otherwise, they held up briliantly.
And aside from the fingers being a bit too short, they are awsome!
But you knew all that anyway.
I have a pair of Alpinestars SP-1 gloves. They're full leather gauntlets with all the carbon fiber crap. I was unsure at first about them for summer use and really wanted a pair of SPS gloves but they didn't have them in my size. Anyway, I have yet to ride in over 80 degree weather with them, but they are a lot cooler then they appear and after an hour of riding in 75 degree weather my hands are almost uncomfortably cold