Comments on: Fingerless Gloves Are Stupid

By: Needles

Needles — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:08:53 +0000

As a friend of mine once noted, the only thing you can do with gloves on is wet your drawers. Hence my predilection for fingerless gloves…

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:59:27 +0000

Whaaaa? One of your ads is offering me Chinese women to date. Thanks, really, but no.

You know that the Google ad there bases what it shows you on where your browser’s recently been, right? So, um, you may want to have a conversation with some of the other folks who have access to your computer. For what it’s worth, that ad shows me a mix of ads for social media monitoring products (the topic I’ve been researching at work lately). – FC

By: Skye

Skye — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:18:01 +0000

I have one irrefutable, non-arguable reason for wearing fingerless gloves, and its not even a funny one: I need ready access to my fingertips for blood sugar testing. As an insulin-dependent, pump-wearing diabetic, my fingertips are key to enabling my (feeble) attempt to manage my external pancreas system to keep my blood sugar in line. No fingers = no easy blood = no idea where blood sugar is = all sorts of horrors and a lousy ride, to boot.

I’m going to concede that this is in fact a perfectly compelling and awesome reason to wear fingerless gloves. – FC

By: "Bicycle Bill"

"Bicycle Bill" — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:07:50 +0000

"It’s not weight savings. Your fingerless gloves don’t weigh any less than your full-fingered gloves. But even if they did, it would be truly weird of you to wear them for that reason." Try telling that to the weight-weenies. You know, the ones who swap out aluminum spoke nipples for titanium in order to save a few grams. -"BB"-

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:38:58 +0000

It’s hot as hell here in AZ! The less glove, the better. I wear them to keep my bar tape clean – $40 gloves vs. $75 new bar tape installed.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:39:00 +0000

My hands aren’t very fat, and I have long fingers. All gloves that have long enough fingers are extremely loose on the palms. Maybe I’m just not quite enough of a Fatty to make the jump to non-fingerless gloves. :)

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:19:56 +0000

My giro *fingerless* gloves have little hooks you grab with your opposite hand and they come right off.

By: TheLurker

TheLurker — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:07:52 +0000

“Bimble. I don’t know that word, but then neither does the dictionary.” Give it another decade or so and the dictionaries will catch up. In the meantime herewith a working definition.

Bimble –
Noun. A leisurely journey, often short, by bicycle. Also used a verb and commonly used ironically when describing a proposed cycle ride.

Examples.
“I was just bimbling along…”

“Oh it’ll just be a bimble to x and back; it’ll be a doddle.”

This latter example should be read as, “A 160k full gas pelt up a series of horrendous hills in which you, ya wuss, will be hard pushed to keep up; that’s if we don’t drop you completely.”

By: PhillipIvan

PhillipIvan — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:36:00 +0000

Here is why your wrong, sometimes.

I have big hands, bigger than yours, but my fingers are longer again, longer than everyones. I never find a pair of full fingered gloves, for any occupation, that fit well. I wear XXL gloves which are too loose around my palm and still too short in the finger. With fingerless gloves I can wear XL, and have a snug fit around the palm and never worry that the designer would have made the fingers way to short if they can stitched the ends closed.

By: zeeeter

zeeeter — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:38:46 +0000

I’ve decided to try to cook the best cake in the world. However, as we’re all ramping up to our intense Cyclocross training in a big way I’ve decided to apply Costco rules to the list of ingredients. The recipe does say that one package of chocolate chips should be used. Have you seen their bags of chocolate chips!? I’m really going to enjoy this . . .