The weather for bike
riding has been resolutely manky of late — no great surprises: it's
Scotland, in winter.
My cycling revelation has come in the form of comfortably warm hands.
I think I probably have
bad circulation. It doesn't even have to be that cold and I don't
have to be out that long. Even a twenty-minute ride to work on a day
of close to 0 degrees C and my digits can be so cold as to be useful,
painfully so.
I had tried a variety
of gloves, windproof, waterproof, windproof and waterproof, with
thermal liners, and all to no avail. This winter I decided on one
last shot at finding a decent glove. I'd been considering
lobster-claw-style mittens (the idea of these being that your fingers
are paired together and thus help keep one another warm) but was wary
of the loss of dexterity and doubted that two cold fingers pressed
together would be much warmer than having them individually wrapped.
Following a blitz of
online research, and checking what my local shops had in stock (I
wanted to be able to try them on before buying) led me to Sealskinz' Extra Cold Winter Cycle Gloves.
