After going through a load of leather gloves and them being basically useless in cold I’ve found workman’s gloves are brilliant. I know this probably isn’t news to most people but warm gloves when you look for them in the shops aren’t cheap and are usually totally unsuitable for skating in.
Rubber coated palms and fingers so no split seams on your thumb, insulated and cheap as chips (about £5 a pair). These are super warm insulated ones I got at the equivalent of Screwfix and am also going to use them for cycling:
I’ve got a similar pair to those Tamrex ones for bike repair - went through a phase of a puncture a week in Jan/Feb and they work for keeping the hands clean. Good for apartment gardening too, heh.
Ended up splurging on a pair of Sealskinz - water/wind proof, supposedly usuable with touch screens, but that’s debatable. Also got a pair of Extremities which are great with screens, are light, durable and warm but not waterproof - I also use them as goalkeepers gloves when playing footy with my son.
I tried to jump a double set that no one had done before, it was not known and hidden, not because it was massive. I didn’t like bailing on the tarmac landing, was hurting my prissy hands so someone suggested wearing gloves to land it, trouble is the closest thing we could find were marigolds. I think we might have had the camera out so there may be evidence of some attempts wearing them. Very odd. They didn’t work obviously and it got left for another day to return, which I never got around to.
